<p>what grad school is good for art history. not just us, but the world. is la sorbonne any good?</p>
<p>sauron, there are quite a few excellent programs all over the world. Choice would depend on the degree you're looking for (PhD or Masters) and your area of interest. Most require French and German or an equivalent pertinent language (e.g., Chinese if you're studying Asian art.)</p>
<p>There are also schools that specialize in museum work -- like restoration and museum management -- as opposed to purely academic art history.</p>
<p>The Courtauld Institute in London is extremely prestigious for Art History, often outranking even Oxbridge in that particular category.</p>
<p>理う額するはいいです。</p>
<p>never heard of that college.. .</p>
<p>curatorship and museum management are different areas right?</p>
<p>also, is there a way of not having to learn german? cuz not only do i hate it, but it is really difficult... let's say u specialized in mannerism. can u replace german with italian... or for classical art, greek?</p>
<p>Columbia, NYU, UC Berkeley are three excellent graduate schools for Art History.</p>
<p>sauron, Courtauld's is one of the best in Europe. Also a wonderful museum with a priceless collection.</p>
<p>Curatorship tends to mean more a academic/intellectual background. Museum management can come from be just about anything. Directors of top museums used to be PhD's but now they have MBA's, architecture degrees, law degrees -- the position's become less academic and more administrative and fund raising.</p>
<p>You don't need to speak German, just be able to read it enough to decipher art history texts. There are classes designed for this purpose. Most likely you could substitute Italian for Italian art, Latin for Roman, etc. It's really up to the admitting school to make exceptions.</p>
<p>For a art history PhD you will most likely have to be able to read German -- you won't have to speak it.</p>
<p>German is fun to speak. Foreign leaders have lots of fun making fools of themselves when they speak the language. Example, JFK: "I AM A JELLY DONUT!" (He meant, "I am a Berliner" but he screwed-up while being watched by the world.)</p>
<p>Actually, the story about Kennedy is an urban legend. He was gramatically correct, and some argue that including the "ein" adds certain nuance to the sentence that only "Ich bin Berliner" would not have conveyed.</p>
<p>Though I don't speak German, that's only from doing some research online.</p>
<p>I do speak German, and pinnipotto is correct.</p>
<p>haha, that's funny because in the Princeton Review Craking the AP US History Exam, they have that thing about how the "ein" makes it so that he said he is a German pastry.</p>
<p>I studied in Berlin at a Gymnasium. A "Berliner" is a type of donut, but it also means a resident of Berlin. It is customary, and better, to say "Ich bin Berliner" but it is not wrong to say something that would be similar to announcing, "I am an American" rather than "I am American." No one misunderstood.</p>
<p>i don't get it. why is german required and not italian. italy contributed FAR more in western painting, sculpture. </p>
<p>what kind of collection does courtaud have? classical? are british universities more concerned with cassical art? </p>
<p>if u were to major in african art, wouldn't it be acceptable that u just go to an african university? or for asian art, to an asian univ.?</p>
<p>I have no idea, unfortunately, I'm just a historian at the University of London, so I can't help you specifically. </p>
<p><a href="http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/index.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.courtauld.ac.uk/index.html</a></p>
<p>Website link, though.</p>
<p>sauron, the theory is that since many of the pioneers in art history wrote in German it's helpful to be able to read it. Again, it depends on the individual program. Many colleges recognize that the world has changed since 1900 and will make accommodations accordingly.</p>
<p>And no, the best place to study African or Asian art may not be at an African or Asian university. You want to go where the experts are in the area that you are studying and most likely they will be in Europe or America. Of course you would need to travel to see the works in situ but that's different from where you do your graduate work.</p>
<p>What you need to focus on is first, masters or PhD? second, what area of interest? third, what ultimate career goals?</p>
<p>Just about every university offers a PhD in art history, but there are fewer masters programs. Each program has a specialty, often tied into the collection of the associate museum.</p>
<p>UT-Austin is pretty good too... not to mention it has the largest university art museum on ANY American campus (the Blanton Museum), with a substantial Italian Renaissance/Baroque collection (including the Suida-Manning Collection), one of the largest Latin American collections in the world, an extensive Contemporary American collection (including the Michener collection), and one of the most significant print and drawing collections on any university campus (over 15,000 from antiquity to the present, including the famous art historian Leo Steinberg's collections). Then across campus, the world-renowned Ransom Humanities Research Center, in addition to tens of millions of rare books and manuscripts, has over 100,000 additional works of art from the 15th through the 20th centuries. There's not really any other US university with anything comparable.</p>
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As momrath said, not necessarily. The best places for Egyptian art are NYU and Emory, for example.</p>
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It depends on your area of study. For example, I used the Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum a lot while researching Greek vases last semester. Its portfolios were written in English, German, French, Italian, and Spanish.</p>
<p>Sauron---much of 20th and 19th century scholarship (esp. in Quattrocento and Cinquecento Italian Art History) was written in German. Got my Masters was at UCLA and I also did post graduate work in Florence. I needed a reading knowlege of French and German. And a reading and speaking knowlege of Italian.</p>
<p>Woops--left out Latin.</p>