History of Art (ARTH)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2017-2018.

ARTH 1100

This lecture class introduces students to the History of Art as a global and interdisciplinary field. Team-taught by several professors from the department its aim is to familiarize students with the most ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Opt NoAud

  • Topic: World Art and Technology

  •  9020 ARTH 1100   LEC 001

ARTH 1161

This course explores miniature painting styles in India, from landscape to erotica, spanning the Deccan sultanate to the British Empire from the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. We will explore a variety ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17605 ARTH 1161   SEM 101

  • For more information about First-Year Writing Seminars, see the Knight Institute website at http://www.arts.cornell.edu/knight_institute.

ARTH 2200

Why did the Gorgon turn people into stone? Did Cleopatra really have such a big nose? Did the Romans make wax death masks? Should the British Museum return the Parthenon Marbles to Greece? Come and explore ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ARKEO 2700CLASS 2700

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16448 ARTH 2200   LEC 001

  • 16609 ARTH 2200   DIS 201

  • 16610 ARTH 2200   DIS 202

  • 16611 ARTH 2200   DIS 203

  • 16612 ARTH 2200   DIS 204

ARTH 2400

A survey of European art from 1400-1750, including all arts but emphasizing painting and analysis of the works of such major artists as Jan van Eyck, Botticelli, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Velazquez, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: VISST 2645

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7808 ARTH 2400   LEC 001

  •  7809 ARTH 2400   DIS 201

  •  8090 ARTH 2400   DIS 202

  •  7810 ARTH 2400   DIS 203

  •  7811 ARTH 2400   DIS 204

ARTH 2500

Provides a lecture survey of the history of photography over a course of two centuries. Starting with its invention in the 1830s, covers the subject topically and chronologically. During the nineteenth ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: VISST 2500

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17333 ARTH 2500   LEC 001

ARTH 2711

With megacities, long-distance trade, and fluid identities, the Roman empire can seem uncannily close to our modern world. This course adopts a thematic approach to explore whether this is a valid parallel, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: ARKEO 2711CLASS 2711

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  9942 ARTH 2711   LEC 001

  • 15991 ARTH 2711   DIS 201

  •  9943 ARTH 2711   DIS 202

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ARTH 3101

Works of art have always engendered political, social, and cultural meanings. This seminar presents an introduction to the methods used by art historians and the objects and ideas that constitute ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 6101VISST 3101

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8345 ARTH 3101   SEM 101

ARTH 3250

Introduction and training in dendrochronology and its application to archaeology, art history, and environment through participation in a research project dating ancient to modern tree-ring samples especially ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  6418 ARTH 3250   LEC 001

  •  6632 ARTH 3250   LAB 401

    • TBA
    • Manning, S

ARTH 3419

The variety of visual experience in 17th-century Dutch art is legion: still life, portraiture and self-portraiture, landscape and cityscape, architectural painting and scenes of everyday life, all in paint ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: VISST 3419

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8975 ARTH 3419   LEC 001

ARTH 3510

This course is a survey of the visual artistic traditions of Africa. It investigates the different forms of visual art in relation to their historical and socio-cultural context. The symbolism and complexity ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 3501

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17210 ARTH 3510   LEC 001

ARTH 3820

As an island nation east of the Asian continent, Japan developed a unique culture that reflects both continental and indigenous characteristics. This course examines pre- and post-contact with continental ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 3381

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16482 ARTH 3820   LEC 001

ARTH 3901

This tutorial investigates ancient art in collections (private and museums) in Upstate New York. Students learn to properly describe, document (in word and image), identify and finally present or publish ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 6901

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 16594 ARTH 3901   SEM 101

ARTH 4153

Feminist media arts continuously proliferate. These rich and varied practices include video, net art, networked performance, video games, remix, installation, biotech art, artificial life and robotics. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • Topic: Feminist Posthumanisms in the Visual Arts

  • 16476 ARTH 4153   SEM 101

ARTH 4440

This seminar examines issues of identity and self-fashioning in the 16th century in early modern Europe, especially Italy.  The proliferation of courtesy manuals, most famous of them by Castiglione, instructed ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 6440VISST 4440

  • 4 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 16446 ARTH 4440   SEM 101

ARTH 4514

This course examines the intersection of Africana/Black Studies and Postcolonial Studies.  Although the two fields are often perceived as being distinct from one another, in reality they overlap in significant ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 6514ASRC 4514ASRC 6514

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17212 ARTH 4514   SEM 101

ARTH 4774

Materials will be considered as willful agents within artistic processes across key moments in history by tracing the flow of wampum from the east coast, recognizing the shift from shell to glass during ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17329 ARTH 4774   SEM 101

ARTH 4816

China, a cultural giant of East Asia, made a passive entrance into modernity. With the advent of Western and American colonialism and imperialism, coupled with recent successes in westernization by the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 6816ASIAN 4473ASIAN 6673

  • 4 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 16485 ARTH 4816   SEM 101

ARTH 4991

Individual investigation and discussion of special topics not covered in the regular course offerings, by arrangement with a member of the department. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  7117 ARTH 4991   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Pan, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  7120 ARTH 4991   IND 604

    • TBA
    • McGowan, K

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  7121 ARTH 4991   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Moisey, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  7122 ARTH 4991   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Dadi, I

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  7123 ARTH 4991   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Rickard, J

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  7124 ARTH 4991   IND 608

    • TBA
    • Robinson, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  7125 ARTH 4991   IND 609

    • TBA
    • Hassan, S

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  7126 ARTH 4991   IND 610

    • TBA
    • Alexandridis, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  7127 ARTH 4991   IND 611

    • TBA
    • Fernandez, M

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  7181 ARTH 4991   IND 612

    • TBA
    • Lazzaro, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  8108 ARTH 4991   IND 614

    • TBA
    • Pincus, L

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  8347 ARTH 4991   IND 615

    • TBA
    • Anderson, B

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  8348 ARTH 4991   IND 616

    • TBA
    • Cohen-Aponte, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  8464 ARTH 4991   IND 617

    • TBA
    • Platt, V

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  • 10199 ARTH 4991   IND 618

    • TBA
    • Johnson, C

ARTH 4998

A course for senior Art History majors working on honors theses, with selected reading, research projects, etc., under the supervision of a member of the History of Art faculty. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  7026 ARTH 4998   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Alexandridis, A

ARTH 5991

Individual investigation and discussion of special topics not covered in the regular course offerings, by arrangement with a member of the department. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5839 ARTH 5991   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Rickard, J

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7146 ARTH 5991   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Dadi, I

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7147 ARTH 5991   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Alexandridis, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7149 ARTH 5991   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Robinson, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7150 ARTH 5991   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Moisey, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7151 ARTH 5991   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Pan, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7152 ARTH 5991   IND 608

    • TBA
    • Lazzaro, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7153 ARTH 5991   IND 609

    • TBA
    • Hassan, S

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7155 ARTH 5991   IND 611

    • TBA
    • McGowan, K

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7182 ARTH 5991   IND 612

    • TBA
    • Fernandez, M

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8110 ARTH 5991   IND 614

    • TBA
    • Pincus, L

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8349 ARTH 5991   IND 615

    • TBA
    • Anderson, B

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8350 ARTH 5991   IND 616

    • TBA
    • Cohen-Aponte, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17336 ARTH 5991   IND 617

    • TBA
    • Platt, V

ARTH 5993

Individual investigation and discussion of special topics not covered in the regular course offerings, by arrangement with a member of the department. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7156 ARTH 5993   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Pan, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7157 ARTH 5993   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Dadi, I

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7158 ARTH 5993   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Moisey, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7159 ARTH 5993   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Lazzaro, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7160 ARTH 5993   IND 606

    • TBA
    • McGowan, K

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7162 ARTH 5993   IND 608

    • TBA
    • Rickard, J

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7163 ARTH 5993   IND 609

    • TBA
    • Robinson, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7164 ARTH 5993   IND 610

    • TBA
    • Hassan, S

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7165 ARTH 5993   IND 611

    • TBA
    • Alexandridis, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7183 ARTH 5993   IND 612

    • TBA
    • Fernandez, M

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8351 ARTH 5993   IND 614

    • TBA
    • Anderson, B

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8352 ARTH 5993   IND 615

    • TBA
    • Cohen-Aponte, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 10229 ARTH 5993   IND 616

    • TBA
    • Johnson, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17338 ARTH 5993   IND 617

    • TBA
    • Pincus, L

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17337 ARTH 5993   IND 618

    • TBA
    • Platt, V

ARTH 6000

This seminar introduces graduate students to a range of methodologies and approaches to teaching and researching topics in art history and visual studies. Each week, a member of the faculty will present ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  •  8356 ARTH 6000   SEM 101

ARTH 6101

Works of art have always engendered political, social, and cultural meanings. This seminar presents an introduction to the methods used by art historians and the objects and ideas that constitute ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 3101VISST 3101

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  9820 ARTH 6101   SEM 101

ARTH 6153

Feminist media arts continuously proliferate. These rich and varied practices include video, net art, networked performance, video games, remix, installation, biotech art, artificial life and robotics. ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • Topic: Feminist Posthumanisms in the Visual Arts

  • 16474 ARTH 6153   SEM 101

ARTH 6308

Expanded Practice Seminars bring students and faculty in the humanities and the design disciplines together around a common and pressing urban issue such as the cultural and material practices induced ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARCH 5819ARCH 6308SHUM 6308

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: Migration & Discrimination

  • 17521 ARTH 6308   SEM 101

ARTH 6440

This seminar examines issues of identity and self-fashioning in the 16th century in early modern Europe, especially Italy.  The proliferation of courtesy manuals, most famous of them by Castiglione, instructed ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 4440VISST 4440

  • 4 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 16449 ARTH 6440   SEM 101

ARTH 6514

This course examines the intersection of Africana/Black Studies and Postcolonial Studies.  Although the two fields are often perceived as being distinct from one another, in reality they overlap in significant ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 4514ASRC 4514ASRC 6514

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17214 ARTH 6514   SEM 101

ARTH 6650

This course explores movement through and across water in both actual and metaphorical terms. Readings include such classics as Beloved, Moby-Dick, and Huckleberry Finn. They also include lesser read accounts ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 6650ENGL 6650FGSS 6651

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17907 ARTH 6650   SEM 101

ARTH 6774

Materials will be considered as willful agents within artistic processes across key moments in history by tracing the flow of wampum from the east coast, recognizing the shift from shell to glass during ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17331 ARTH 6774   SEM 101

ARTH 6780

Our title derives from the political philosopher Leo Strauss, who provides our initial analytic, methodological, and theoretical model. We extend beyond Straussian ideological positions to include art ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16708 ARTH 6780   SEM 101

ARTH 6816

China, a cultural giant of East Asia, made a passive entrance into modernity. With the advent of Western and American colonialism and imperialism, coupled with recent successes in westernization by the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 4816ASIAN 4473ASIAN 6673

  • 4 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 16487 ARTH 6816   SEM 101

ARTH 6901

This tutorial investigates ancient art in collections (private and museums) in Upstate New York. Students learn to properly describe, document (in word and image), identify and finally present or publish ... view course details

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 3901

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 16595 ARTH 6901   SEM 101