History of Art (ARTH)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2018-2019.

ARTH 1160

Upon viewing Carolee Schneemann's Fuses, fellow avant-garde filmmaker Jonas Mekas proclaimed it the film of the year, saying, "It is so gorgeous… so dangerous." While Fuses was censored as pornographic, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17871 ARTH 1160   SEM 101

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

ARTH 1166

In this course, students will explore the political roles of art in Latin America in a selection of works ranging from the 7th to the 21st century. How can we conceive of aesthetics as politics in Latin ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17698 ARTH 1166   SEM 101

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

ARTH 1167

Explores how different styles of writing about art such as manifestos, art criticism, catalogue essays, and art history papers have attempted to give resolution to the larger question: what is Latin American ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17699 ARTH 1167   SEM 101

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

ARTH 1704

Why do so many societies create statues, and why do they set them up in prominent spaces within their communities? How and why do statues loom so large in the public imagination? Looking both to the cultures ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CLASS 1704

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16599 ARTH 1704   LEC 001

ARTH 2000

This course introduces the field of Visual Studies.  Visual Studies seeks to define and improve our visual relationship to nature and culture after the modern surge in technology and knowledge.  It contains ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 2000COML 2000VISST 2000

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5323 ARTH 2000   LEC 001

  •  9257 ARTH 2000   DIS 201

  •  9258 ARTH 2000   DIS 202

  •  9259 ARTH 2000   DIS 203

  •  9260 ARTH 2000   DIS 204

  •  9261 ARTH 2000   DIS 205

  •  9262 ARTH 2000   DIS 206

  •  9533 ARTH 2000   DIS 207

  •  9534 ARTH 2000   DIS 208

ARTH 2101

This course explores Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) knowledge and its application across the disciplines and through time. In particular, it offers a glimpse into Cornell's local indigenous culture ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AIIS 2100AMST 2108

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17640 ARTH 2101   LEC 001

ARTH 2221

What was it like to live in the Roman world?  What did that world look, taste and smell like?  How did Romans raise their families, entertain themselves, understand death, and interact with their government? ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARKEO 2743CLASS 2743

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17935 ARTH 2221   LEC 001

ARTH 2550

This course is designed to introduce students to Latin American art from the pre-Columbian period to the present.  It will cover the arts of ancient civilizations including the Olmec, Maya, Aztec, Moche, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: LATA 2050VISST 2550

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16684 ARTH 2550   LEC 001

ARTH 3010

Who are 'the poor' in the United States? Who are the largest recipients of federal welfare and entitlement spending? Why is there an unprecedented simultaneous increase in wealth and poverty in the United ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3010ART 3810VISST 3010

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  •  8209 ARTH 3010   SEM 101

ARTH 3506

This interdisciplinary undergraduate lecture examines the visual culture of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade from the 16th century to the present. Lectures present artifacts, prints, paintings, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16723 ARTH 3506   LEC 001

ARTH 3535

This course introduces the New German Cinema (1962-85), an influential movement of West German filmmakers including Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Werner Herzog, Alexander Kluge, Margarethe von Trotta, and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GERST 3525PMA 3525VISST 3535

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16693 ARTH 3535   LEC 001

  • Taught in English. Screenings in German with English subtitles.

ARTH 3850

The arts of Southeast Asia are studied in their social context, since in traditional societies creative processes are often mapped on the sequence of events that compose human lives. We will be looking ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 3350VISST 3696

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8630 ARTH 3850   LEC 001

ARTH 3856

No description available. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Seven Week - First.  Combined with: ASIAN 3356

  • 2 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17121 ARTH 3856   SEM 101

    • F
    • Jan 22 - Mar 9, 2019
    • McGowan, K

  • A winter trip to Cambodia is required to attend this SP 19 class with Professor McGowan.

ARTH 4015

No description available. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 6015ARTH 6015

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 18196 ARTH 4015   SEM 101

ARTH 4165

This course will look at visual representations of cross-cultural encounters throughout the early modern period with a special emphasis on exchanges between Europe and the Americas (15th-18th centuries). ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16811 ARTH 4165   SEM 101

ARTH 4171

An examination and analysis of the major trends in art from Neoclassicism and Romanticism through Post Impressionism and the dawn of the twentieth century. Lectures and readings will concentrate on the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 18357 ARTH 4171   SEM 180

  • Taught in Washington, DC.

ARTH 4540

This seminar will offer a survey of film theory and history tailored for art historians, especially but not exclusively for modernists.  The influence of cinema on twentieth-century aesthetics cannot be ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 6540

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16792 ARTH 4540   SEM 101

ARTH 4590

In this course, we will explore the long and varied history of abstraction as both a practice and an ideal. We will survey this history by drawing on two distinct bodies of thought relevant to the problem ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 6590

  • 4 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 17315 ARTH 4590   SEM 101

ARTH 4601

The body is a universal. How we construct our understandings of it is not. In this class we will investigate conceptions and treatment of the early-modern body (1400-1700) mainly in Europe with excursions ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16840 ARTH 4601   SEM 101

ARTH 4691

While globalization is a process unfolding over many centuries, it has arguably intensified in recent decades. The incorporation of the communist world and independent nation-states into global finance ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 6691VISST 4691

  • 4 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 16875 ARTH 4691   SEM 101

ARTH 4720

During Europe's colonial era, the modern museum emerged as a site of cultural and scientific authority. This course investigates the history of imperial collections and collectors, with a focus on Britain ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16511 ARTH 4720   SEM 101

ARTH 4855

This seminar explores how patterned cloths serve as a symbolic medium, functioning on multiple levels of understanding and communication. As spun, dyed, and woven threads of consequence, textiles can be ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17052 ARTH 4855   SEM 101

ARTH 4992

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

  •  6707 ARTH 4992   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Alexandridis, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  6708 ARTH 4992   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Dadi, I

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  6709 ARTH 4992   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Fernandez, M

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  6710 ARTH 4992   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Finley, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  6711 ARTH 4992   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Hassan, S

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  6712 ARTH 4992   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Lazzaro, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  6713 ARTH 4992   IND 608

    • TBA
    • McGowan, K

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  6714 ARTH 4992   IND 610

    • TBA
    • Rickard, J

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  6793 ARTH 4992   IND 611

    • TBA
    • Pan, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  6794 ARTH 4992   IND 612

    • TBA
    • Robinson, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  7316 ARTH 4992   IND 614

    • TBA
    • Cohen-Aponte, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  7317 ARTH 4992   IND 615

    • TBA
    • Anderson, B

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  7318 ARTH 4992   IND 616

    • TBA
    • Pincus, L

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  7955 ARTH 4992   IND 617

    • TBA
    • Moisey, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  8386 ARTH 4992   IND 618

    • TBA
    • Johnson, C

ARTH 4999

The student under faculty direction prepares a senior thesis. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8258 ARTH 4999   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Moisey, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  9157 ARTH 4999   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Fernandez, M

ARTH 5992

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

  •  6723 ARTH 5992   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Alexandridis, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6724 ARTH 5992   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Dadi, I

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6725 ARTH 5992   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Fernandez, M

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6726 ARTH 5992   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Finley, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6727 ARTH 5992   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Hassan, S

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6728 ARTH 5992   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Lazzaro, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6729 ARTH 5992   IND 608

    • TBA
    • McGowan, K

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6730 ARTH 5992   IND 610

    • TBA
    • Rickard, J

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6795 ARTH 5992   IND 611

    • TBA
    • Pan, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6796 ARTH 5992   IND 612

    • TBA
    • Robinson, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7319 ARTH 5992   IND 614

    • TBA
    • Cohen-Aponte, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7320 ARTH 5992   IND 615

    • TBA
    • Anderson, B

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7321 ARTH 5992   IND 616

    • TBA
    • Pincus, L

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7953 ARTH 5992   IND 617

    • TBA
    • Moisey, A

ARTH 5994

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

  •  6715 ARTH 5994   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Alexandridis, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6716 ARTH 5994   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Dadi, I

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6717 ARTH 5994   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Fernandez, M

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6718 ARTH 5994   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Finley, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6719 ARTH 5994   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Hassan, S

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6720 ARTH 5994   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Lazzaro, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6721 ARTH 5994   IND 608

    • TBA
    • McGowan, K

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6722 ARTH 5994   IND 610

    • TBA
    • Rickard, J

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6801 ARTH 5994   IND 611

    • TBA
    • Pan, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6802 ARTH 5994   IND 612

    • TBA
    • Robinson, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7121 ARTH 5994   IND 613

    • TBA
    • Pincus, L

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7322 ARTH 5994   IND 615

    • TBA
    • Cohen-Aponte, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7323 ARTH 5994   IND 616

    • TBA
    • Anderson, B

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7954 ARTH 5994   IND 617

    • TBA
    • Moisey, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8387 ARTH 5994   IND 618

    • TBA
    • Johnson, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8451 ARTH 5994   IND 619

    • TBA
    • Samuels, S

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9618 ARTH 5994   IND 620

    • TBA
    • Anderson, B

      Van Oyen, A

ARTH 6015

This graduate seminar explores the making of photographic archives, the narratives they tell, and the parameters that define them as objects of study. As visual collections, photographic archives present ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 6015ARTH 4015

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 17377 ARTH 6015   SEM 101

ARTH 6165

This course will look at visual representations of cross-cultural encounters throughout the early modern period with a special emphasis on exchanges between Europe and the Americas (15th-18th centuries). ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16816 ARTH 6165   SEM 101

ARTH 6540

This seminar will offer a survey of film theory and history tailored for art historians, especially but not exclusively for modernists.  The influence of cinema on twentieth-century aesthetics cannot be ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 4540

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16793 ARTH 6540   SEM 101

ARTH 6590

In this course, we will explore the long and varied history of abstraction as both a practice and an ideal. We will survey this history by drawing on two distinct bodies of thought relevant to the problem ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 4590

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17316 ARTH 6590   SEM 101

ARTH 6601

The body is a universal. How we construct our understandings of it is not. In this class we will investigate conceptions and treatment of the early-modern body (1400-1700) mainly in Europe with excursions ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16854 ARTH 6601   SEM 101

ARTH 6691

While globalization is a process unfolding over many centuries, it has arguably intensified in recent decades. The incorporation of the communist world and independent nation-states into global finance ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 4691VISST 4691

  • 4 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 16880 ARTH 6691   SEM 101

ARTH 6714

Some of our very best evidence for Roman art survives in the form of frescoes in Rome, Ostia and the Bay of Naples. Exploring imperial palaces, rural villas, town houses, shops, baths, tombs, taverns and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CLASS 7714

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16381 ARTH 6714   SEM 101

ARTH 6720

During Europe's colonial era, the modern museum emerged as a site of cultural and scientific authority. This course investigates the history of imperial collections and collectors, with a focus on Britain ... view course details

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none
  • 16519 ARTH 6720   SEM 101

ARTH 6855

This seminar explores how patterned cloths serve as a symbolic medium, functioning on multiple levels of understanding and communication. As spun, dyed, and woven threads of consequence, textiles can be ... view course details

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none
  • 17055 ARTH 6855   SEM 101