History of Art (ARTH)Arts and Sciences

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

ARTH 1100

This lecture course introduces students to the History of Art as a global and interdisciplinary field. Team-taught by several professors from the department in collaboration with educators and curators ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Opt NoAud

  • Topic: World Art and Technology

  •  8432 ARTH 1100   LEC 001

ARTH 1165

Artists since the 1960s have turned their attention from "work" to" frame" by intervening in exhibitions, questioning how art history is written, and making "the context" of art a central concern. This ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17912 ARTH 1165   SEM 101

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

ARTH 2200

What is the origin of the Olympic games? Why are the most famous Greek vases found in Italy? What was the "worlds' first computer" used for? What can a brick tell us about still standing Roman buildings? ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARKEO 2700CLASS 2700

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9183 ARTH 2200   LEC 001

ARTH 2255

This course attempts to reconcile the split between art and science through a pluralistic perspective of environmental artistic processes. What is the role of visual culture in sustainable development? ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 2255

  • 3 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 17626 ARTH 2255   LEC 001

ARTH 2400

This course examines some of the major works of European artists from 1400 to 1750, a period with huge changes in religion, political systems, and knowledge of the world. We learn chronological and geographical ... 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

  •  7418 ARTH 2400   LEC 001

  •  7420 ARTH 2400   DIS 201

  •  7421 ARTH 2400   DIS 202

ARTH 2600

This course surveys major artistic movements and artists in Europe and the United States from the French Revolution to the rise of Abstract Expressionism in 1950s New York. It introduces students to the ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion.

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17070 ARTH 2600   LEC 001

  • 17071 ARTH 2600   DIS 201

  • 17072 ARTH 2600   DIS 202

  • 17073 ARTH 2600   DIS 203

  • 17074 ARTH 2600   DIS 204

ARTH 2805

Trade in and to Asia proved to be a key force in creating our modern "globalized" world.  The Indian Ocean and the China Seas converged on Southeast Asia, where a cosmopolitan array of ships from every ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 2285VISST 2805

  • 4 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 16776 ARTH 2805   LEC 001

ARTH 3100

How did photography become the world's most dominant kind of visual representation?  This course investigates photography's scientific origins and complex relations to painting, portraiture, urban life, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17020 ARTH 3100   LEC 001

  • For more information visit https://arthistory.cornell.edu/arth-3100-history-photography-fall-2018

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
  •  6129 ARTH 3250   LEC 001

  •  6335 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

  •  8402 ARTH 3419   LEC 001

ARTH 3505

Blaxploitation films of the 1970s are remembered for their gigantic Afros, enormous guns, slammin' soundtracks, sex, drugs, nudity, and violence. Never before or since have so many African American performers ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16837 ARTH 3505   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

  • 17611 ARTH 3510   LEC 001

ARTH 3566

This course introduces students to the arts of the ancient Americas from circa 2000 BC to the Spanish invasions of the 15th and 16th centuries. The inhabitants of the Americas produced outstanding works ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16833 ARTH 3566   LEC 001

ARTH 3600

This course discusses new art practices since the 1960s. Although numerous artistic experiments took place during the first half of the twentieth century, it was with the declining importance of modernist ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: VISST 3600

  • 4 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 16838 ARTH 3600   LEC 001

ARTH 3940

The history of photography as an art has been mostly on the page, not on the wall.  This course refocuses the standard museum and gallery history of photography back to the book.  Significantly, it takes ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 6940

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17036 ARTH 3940   SEM 101

  • For more information visit https://arthistory.cornell.edu/arth-3940-6940-photobook-fall-2018

ARTH 4101

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 4101

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  7871 ARTH 4101   SEM 101

ARTH 4151

Topic for Fall 2018: Biological Art (Bio Art): From the late 20th-century to the present, artists have made art using live entities including plants, animals, cells, tissue cultures and bacteria. They ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • Topic: Biological Art (Bio Art)

  • 16926 ARTH 4151   SEM 101

  • For more information visit https://arthistory.cornell.edu/arth-4161-6151-topics-media-arts-biological-art-bio-art-fall-2018

ARTH 4162

This course examines the art and architecture of the Inca Empire (ca. 1438-1532), the largest indigenous empire in the Americas prior to the Spanish conquest. The first half of the course explores architecture, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

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

  • 17505 ARTH 4171   SEM 180

  • Taught in Washington, DC. This is part of the Cornell in Washington program.

ARTH 4233

Fall 18 topic: Archaeology of the Roman Provinces: Art and Archaeology of the Roman provinces as a 'sub-field' of Roman Archaeology has only recently gained traction in US academia, whereas in many European ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • Topic: Archaeology of the Roman Provinces

  • 17203 ARTH 4233   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

  •  9506 ARTH 4514   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

  • 17740 ARTH 4816   SEM 101

ARTH 4854

This seminar will focus on the significance of water –economic, religious, political, social –and its role in the art and architecture of Mainland and Island Southeast Asia, with particular focus on Cambodia ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17141 ARTH 4854   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

  •  6783 ARTH 4991   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Pan, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  6785 ARTH 4991   IND 604

    • TBA
    • McGowan, K

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  6786 ARTH 4991   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Moisey, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  6787 ARTH 4991   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Dadi, I

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  6788 ARTH 4991   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Rickard, J

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  6789 ARTH 4991   IND 608

    • TBA
    • Robinson, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  6790 ARTH 4991   IND 609

    • TBA
    • Hassan, S

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  6791 ARTH 4991   IND 610

    • TBA
    • Alexandridis, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  6792 ARTH 4991   IND 611

    • TBA
    • Fernandez, M

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  6843 ARTH 4991   IND 612

    • TBA
    • Lazzaro, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  7690 ARTH 4991   IND 614

    • TBA
    • Pincus, L

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  7873 ARTH 4991   IND 615

    • TBA
    • Anderson, B

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  7874 ARTH 4991   IND 616

    • TBA
    • Cohen-Aponte, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  7975 ARTH 4991   IND 617

    • TBA
    • Platt, V

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  8830 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

  •  6694 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

  •  5565 ARTH 5991   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Rickard, J

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6811 ARTH 5991   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Dadi, I

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6812 ARTH 5991   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Alexandridis, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6813 ARTH 5991   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Robinson, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6814 ARTH 5991   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Moisey, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6815 ARTH 5991   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Pan, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6816 ARTH 5991   IND 608

    • TBA
    • Lazzaro, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6817 ARTH 5991   IND 609

    • TBA
    • Hassan, S

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6818 ARTH 5991   IND 611

    • TBA
    • McGowan, K

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6844 ARTH 5991   IND 612

    • TBA
    • Fernandez, M

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7691 ARTH 5991   IND 614

    • TBA
    • Pincus, L

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7875 ARTH 5991   IND 615

    • TBA
    • Anderson, B

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7876 ARTH 5991   IND 616

    • TBA
    • Cohen-Aponte, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9569 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

  •  6819 ARTH 5993   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Pan, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6820 ARTH 5993   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Dadi, I

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6821 ARTH 5993   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Moisey, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6822 ARTH 5993   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Lazzaro, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6823 ARTH 5993   IND 606

    • TBA
    • McGowan, K

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6824 ARTH 5993   IND 608

    • TBA
    • Rickard, J

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6825 ARTH 5993   IND 609

    • TBA
    • Robinson, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6826 ARTH 5993   IND 610

    • TBA
    • Hassan, S

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6827 ARTH 5993   IND 611

    • TBA
    • Alexandridis, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6845 ARTH 5993   IND 612

    • TBA
    • Fernandez, M

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7877 ARTH 5993   IND 614

    • TBA
    • Anderson, B

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7878 ARTH 5993   IND 615

    • TBA
    • Cohen-Aponte, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8844 ARTH 5993   IND 616

    • TBA
    • Johnson, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9571 ARTH 5993   IND 617

    • TBA
    • Pincus, L

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9570 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

  •  7881 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 4101VISST 4101

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8700 ARTH 6101   SEM 101

ARTH 6151

Seminar topics rotate each semester. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • Topic: Biological Art (Bio Art)

  • 16929 ARTH 6151   SEM 101

  • For more information visit https://arthistory.cornell.edu/arth-4161-6151-topics-media-arts-biological-art-bio-art-fall-2018

ARTH 6162

This course examines the art and architecture of the Inca Empire (ca. 1438-1532), the largest indigenous empire in the Americas prior to the Spanish conquest. The first half of the course explores architecture, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

ARTH 6233

Topics rotate each semester.  Fall 18 topic: Archaeology of the Roman Provincs. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • Topic: Archaeology of the Roman Provinces

  • 17306 ARTH 6233   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

  •  9508 ARTH 6514   SEM 101

ARTH 6548

This seminar is intended for Graduate students who are interested in exploring notions of space and place within the context of the late Ottoman Empire. Going beyond the examination of the "Islamic city" ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: HIST 6548NES 6548

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 16864 ARTH 6548   SEM 101

ARTH 6566

No description available. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18868 ARTH 6566   LEC 001

ARTH 6730

This course explores the use of "speech that brings the subject matter vividly before the eyes." Known in classical antiquity as ekphrasis, this trope has received intense attention in recent decades across ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: CLASS 6736COML 6736

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17498 ARTH 6730   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

  • 17742 ARTH 6816   SEM 101

ARTH 6854

This seminar will focus on the significance of water –economic, religious, political, social –and its role in the art and architecture of Mainland and Island Southeast Asia, with particular focus on Cambodia ... view course details

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none
  • 17285 ARTH 6854   SEM 101

ARTH 6940

The history of photography as an art has been mostly on the page, not on the wall.  This course refocuses the standard museum and gallery history of photography back to the book.  Significantly, it takes ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 3940

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17039 ARTH 6940   SEM 101

  • For more information please visit https://arthistory.cornell.edu/arth-3940-6940-photobook-fall-2018