History of Art (ARTH)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2015-2016.

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. 

  • 3 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • Topic: World Art and Technology

  • 17048 ARTH 1100   LEC 001

ARTH 1140

In the visual landscape of the Italian Renaissance, gods, goddesses and heroes from classical mythology are a ubiquitous presence.  They dance across canvases, adorn the interior spaces of palazzos, and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18204 ARTH 1140   SEM 101

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

ARTH 1141

Why do people care about art and history? And how do people use public displays of art for political purposes?  These questions will frame our investigations into "heritage policy," in which the arts' ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 18207 ARTH 1141   SEM 101

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

ARTH 2400

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

  •  7935 ARTH 2400   LEC 001

  •  7936 ARTH 2400   DIS 201

  •  8339 ARTH 2400   DIS 202

  •  7937 ARTH 2400   DIS 203

  •  7938 ARTH 2400   DIS 204

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 3010VISST 3010

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  •  9522 ARTH 3010   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
  •  6454 ARTH 3250   LEC 001

  •  6694 ARTH 3250   LAB 401

    • TBA
    • Manning, S

ARTH 3419

The variety of visual experience in 17th-century Dutch art is legion: still life, portraiture, self-portraiture, landscape, cityscape, genre, and architectural painting. New scientific technologies and ... view course details

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

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16663 ARTH 3419   LEC 001

ARTH 3760

Discusses French Impressionist art as the product of nineteenth-century public life. By relating Impressionism to state culture, we trace subversive themes such as criminality, café-concert and brothel ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FREN 3610VISST 3662

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16465 ARTH 3760   LEC 001

ARTH 3800

This course offers a survey of the art and culture of China, from the Neolithic period to the 20th century. We begin with an inquiry into the meaning of national boundaries and the controversy of the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARKEO 3800ASIAN 3383

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8331 ARTH 3800   LEC 001

ARTH 3850

The arts of Southeast Asia are studied in their social context, because art plays a role in most of the salient occasions in life in traditional societies. Special emphasis is devoted to developments in ... view course details

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

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16517 ARTH 3850   LEC 001

ARTH 4100

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: VISST 4200

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8686 ARTH 4100   SEM 101

ARTH 4153

Seminar topics rotate each semester. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17295 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 and ... view course details

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

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16633 ARTH 4440   SEM 101

ARTH 4500

This seminar investigates some of the university's old and often neglected teaching collections. Focus is on those collections that consist of replicas (e.g. musical instruments, Rau plow collection, plaster ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17348 ARTH 4500   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

  • 16865 ARTH 4514   SEM 101

ARTH 4578

African cinema from its early days to the present. Through screening of selected African films, different trends within African cinema such as "Return to the Sources" and the rediscovery of the pre-colonial ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 4502

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16863 ARTH 4578   SEM 101

ARTH 4690

Since the late 19th century, the effects of capitalism across the globe have been profoundly transformative and have intensified with the demise of the older colonial empires, the rise of nationalism and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16665 ARTH 4690   SEM 101

ARTH 4761

Seminar topics rotate each semester. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 6761FREN 4761VISST 4761

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • Topic: De-mythologizing Van Gogh & Gauguin

  • 16727 ARTH 4761   SEM 101

ARTH 4815

Buddhism has been integral to Chinese cultural development since the early Christian era (Eastern Han Dynasty). It stood on a par with Confucianism and Daoism, offering alternatives for shaping Chinese ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 6815ASIAN 4457ASIAN 6657

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16762 ARTH 4815   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

  •  5835 ARTH 4991   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Bernstock, J

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  7204 ARTH 4991   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Pan, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  7206 ARTH 4991   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Meixner, L

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  7207 ARTH 4991   IND 604

    • TBA
    • McGowan, K

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  7208 ARTH 4991   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Finley, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  7209 ARTH 4991   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Dadi, I

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  7210 ARTH 4991   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Rickard, J

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  7211 ARTH 4991   IND 608

    • TBA
    • Robinson, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  7212 ARTH 4991   IND 609

    • TBA
    • Hassan, S

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  7213 ARTH 4991   IND 610

    • TBA
    • Alexandridis, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  7214 ARTH 4991   IND 611

    • TBA
    • Fernandez, M

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  7270 ARTH 4991   IND 612

    • TBA
    • Lazzaro, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  8366 ARTH 4991   IND 613

    • TBA
    • Pham, M

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  8367 ARTH 4991   IND 614

    • TBA
    • Pincus, L

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  8692 ARTH 4991   IND 615

    • TBA
    • Anderson, B

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  8693 ARTH 4991   IND 616

    • TBA
    • Cohen Suarez, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  8887 ARTH 4991   IND 617

    • TBA
    • Platt, V

ARTH 4998

No description available. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  7111 ARTH 4998   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Alexandridis, A

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

  •  5837 ARTH 4999   RSC 701

    • TBA
    • Staff

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

  •  5838 ARTH 5991   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Rickard, J

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7233 ARTH 5991   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Dadi, I

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7234 ARTH 5991   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Alexandridis, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7235 ARTH 5991   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Bernstock, J

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7236 ARTH 5991   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Robinson, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7237 ARTH 5991   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Finley, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7238 ARTH 5991   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Pan, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7239 ARTH 5991   IND 608

    • TBA
    • Lazzaro, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7240 ARTH 5991   IND 609

    • TBA
    • Hassan, S

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7241 ARTH 5991   IND 610

    • TBA
    • Meixner, L

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7242 ARTH 5991   IND 611

    • TBA
    • McGowan, K

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7271 ARTH 5991   IND 612

    • TBA
    • Fernandez, M

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8368 ARTH 5991   IND 613

    • TBA
    • Pham, M

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8369 ARTH 5991   IND 614

    • TBA
    • Pincus, L

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8694 ARTH 5991   IND 615

    • TBA
    • Anderson, B

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8695 ARTH 5991   IND 616

    • TBA
    • Cohen Suarez, A

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. 

  • 0-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5839 ARTH 5993   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Bernstock, J

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 0-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7243 ARTH 5993   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Pan, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 0-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7244 ARTH 5993   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Dadi, I

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 0-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7245 ARTH 5993   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Finley, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 0-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7246 ARTH 5993   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Lazzaro, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 0-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7247 ARTH 5993   IND 606

    • TBA
    • McGowan, K

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 0-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7248 ARTH 5993   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Meixner, L

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 0-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7249 ARTH 5993   IND 608

    • TBA
    • Rickard, J

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 0-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7250 ARTH 5993   IND 609

    • TBA
    • Robinson, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 0-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7251 ARTH 5993   IND 610

    • TBA
    • Hassan, S

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 0-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7252 ARTH 5993   IND 611

    • TBA
    • Alexandridis, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 0-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7272 ARTH 5993   IND 612

    • TBA
    • Fernandez, M

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 0-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8239 ARTH 5993   IND 613

    • TBA
    • Pham, M

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 0-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8696 ARTH 5993   IND 614

    • TBA
    • Anderson, B

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 0-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8697 ARTH 5993   IND 615

    • TBA
    • Cohen Suarez, A

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 Graded

  •  8711 ARTH 6000   SEM 101

ARTH 6153

Seminar topics rotate each semester. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17299 ARTH 6153   SEM 101

ARTH 6190

Since the late 19th century, the effects of capitalism across the globe have been profoundly transformative and have intensified with the demise of the older colonial empires, the rise of nationalism and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ART 6690ARTH 4690VISST 4641

  • 4 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 16667 ARTH 6190   SEM 101

ARTH 6409

No description available. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARCH 6409COML 6409SHUM 6409

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 18187 ARTH 6409   SEM 101

  • Graduate participants receive $1,000 research stipends. Enrollment by competition: http://urbanismseminars.cornell.edu/apply/ Deadline: July 31, 2015.

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 and ... view course details

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

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16635 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

  • 17634 ARTH 6514   SEM 101

ARTH 6761

Seminar topics rotate each semester. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • Topic: De-mythologizing Van Gogh & Gauguin

  • 17797 ARTH 6761   SEM 101

ARTH 6815

Buddhism has been integral to Chinese cultural development since the early Christian era (Eastern Han Dynasty). It stood on a par with Confucianism and Daoism, offering alternatives for shaping Chinese ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 4815ASIAN 4457ASIAN 6657

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16764 ARTH 6815   SEM 101