History of Art (ARTH)Arts and Sciences

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Course descriptions provided by the Courses of Study 2022-2023.

ARTH 1100

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

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  •   Regular Academic Session.  Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: SHUM 1100

  • 4 Credits Opt NoAud

  •  6264 ARTH 1100   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  7747 ARTH 1100   DIS 201

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  7748 ARTH 1100   DIS 202

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  7749 ARTH 1100   DIS 203

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  7750 ARTH 1100   DIS 204

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ARTH 1173

How does one capture the likeness of an individual? What purposes do portraits serve, and by which criteria may they be judged? Are there aspects of a person that elude representation? We will pose these ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 19345 ARTH 1173   SEM 101

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

ARTH 1174

Like the right Instagram filter, writing can change the way a photograph impacts its viewer. This course touches on some of photography's key histories and concerns to improve the way students write with ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 19346 ARTH 1174   SEM 101

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

ARTH 2200

Why are the most famous ancient Greek vases found in Italy? What was the "worlds' first computer" used for? What can a brick tell us about still standing Roman buildings? What is "classical" about all ... 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 GradeNoAud

  •  7707 ARTH 2200   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  7708 ARTH 2200   DIS 201

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  7709 ARTH 2200   DIS 202

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ARTH 3250

Introduction and training in dendrochronology (tree-ring dating) and its applications in archaeology, art history, climate and environment through lab work and participation in ongoing research projects ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  4544 ARTH 3250   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

  •  4717 ARTH 3250   LAB 401

    • TBA
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • Lorentzen, B

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ARTH 3565

This course surveys the artistic and architectural traditions of Latin America during the period of Spanish colonial rule (ca. 1520s-1820s). It will center primarily on visual cultures of the viceroyalties ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 6563LATA 3565VISST 3565

  • 4 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 17250 ARTH 3565   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ARTH 3650

In this course, we will examine the role of electronic and digital technologies in the arts of the late 20th and 21st centuries with emphasis on Europe and North America. Beginning with the cybernetically ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •  7942 ARTH 3650   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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
  • 17268 ARTH 3850   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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

  •  5877 ARTH 4101   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ARTH 4110

Topic Fall 2022: Commerce, Currencies, and Commodities: Reconfiguring the Archive view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 6010

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • Topic: Commerce, Currencies, and Commodities

  •  7907 ARTH 4110   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ARTH 4153

Topic: Feminist Posthumanisms in the Visual Arts. view course details

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

  • 17274 ARTH 4153   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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:
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  6853 ARTH 4171   SEM 180

    • T Washington, DC
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • Denker, E

  • Instruction Mode: In Person
    Taught in Washington, DC. This is part of the Cornell in Washington program.

ARTH 4545

Topic for Fall 2022: Tutorial. 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 ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 6545

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • Topic: Tutorial

  • 17531 ARTH 4545   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ARTH 4556

Exploring a genealogy of Latinx, Afro-Latinx, Black, Indigenous, and Chicana/o/x theorizations of modernity and identity, the course asks, what is the decolonial? Is it a space between the colonial and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 17359 ARTH 4556   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ARTH 4673

Collaborations among and between Asian and Asian American artists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have sought to redefine kinship by exploring the politics of belonging, generational ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 18079 ARTH 4673   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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
  • 18011 ARTH 4720   SEM 101

    • R Morrill Hall 423
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • Ratcliff, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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

  •  5098 ARTH 4991   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • Pan, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  5100 ARTH 4991   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • McGowan, K

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  5101 ARTH 4991   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • Moisey, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  5102 ARTH 4991   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • Dadi, I

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  5103 ARTH 4991   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • Rickard, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  5104 ARTH 4991   IND 608

    • TBA
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • Robinson, C

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  5105 ARTH 4991   IND 609

    • TBA
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • Hassan, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  5106 ARTH 4991   IND 610

    • TBA
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • Alexandridis, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  5107 ARTH 4991   IND 611

    • TBA
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • Fernandez, M

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  5156 ARTH 4991   IND 612

    • TBA
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • Lazzaro, C

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  5728 ARTH 4991   IND 614

    • TBA
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • Pincus, L

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  5879 ARTH 4991   IND 615

    • TBA
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • Anderson, B

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  5880 ARTH 4991   IND 616

    • TBA
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • Cohen-Aponte, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  5933 ARTH 4991   IND 617

    • TBA
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • Platt, V

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

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

  •  5009 ARTH 4998   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • Alexandridis, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  7193 ARTH 4998   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • Dadi, I

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  8418 ARTH 4998   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • Fernandez, M

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  • 20386 ARTH 4998   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • Rickard, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  • 20376 ARTH 4998   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • Moisey, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

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

  •  4067 ARTH 5991   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • Rickard, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5126 ARTH 5991   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • Dadi, I

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5127 ARTH 5991   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • Alexandridis, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5128 ARTH 5991   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • Robinson, C

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5129 ARTH 5991   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • Moisey, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5130 ARTH 5991   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • Pan, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5131 ARTH 5991   IND 608

    • TBA
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • Lazzaro, C

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5132 ARTH 5991   IND 609

    • TBA
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • Hassan, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5133 ARTH 5991   IND 611

    • TBA
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • McGowan, K

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5157 ARTH 5991   IND 612

    • TBA
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • Fernandez, M

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5729 ARTH 5991   IND 614

    • TBA
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • Pincus, L

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5881 ARTH 5991   IND 615

    • TBA
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • Anderson, B

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5882 ARTH 5991   IND 616

    • TBA
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • Cohen-Aponte, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6531 ARTH 5991   IND 617

    • TBA
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • Platt, V

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

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

  •  5134 ARTH 5993   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • Pan, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5135 ARTH 5993   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • Dadi, I

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5136 ARTH 5993   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • Moisey, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5137 ARTH 5993   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • Lazzaro, C

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5138 ARTH 5993   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • McGowan, K

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5139 ARTH 5993   IND 608

    • TBA
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • Rickard, J

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5140 ARTH 5993   IND 609

    • TBA
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • Robinson, C

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5141 ARTH 5993   IND 610

    • TBA
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • Hassan, S

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5142 ARTH 5993   IND 611

    • TBA
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • Alexandridis, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5158 ARTH 5993   IND 612

    • TBA
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • Fernandez, M

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5883 ARTH 5993   IND 614

    • TBA
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • Anderson, B

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5884 ARTH 5993   IND 615

    • TBA
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • Cohen-Aponte, A

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6456 ARTH 5993   IND 616

    • TBA
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • Johnson, C

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6533 ARTH 5993   IND 617

    • TBA
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • Pincus, L

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6532 ARTH 5993   IND 618

    • TBA
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • Platt, V

  • Instruction Mode: Independent Studies

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

  •  5886 ARTH 6000   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ARTH 6010

Topic Fall 2022: Commerce, Currencies, and Commodities: Reconfiguring the Archive view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 4110

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • Topic: Commerce, Currencies, and Commodities

  •  7908 ARTH 6010   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

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

  •  6388 ARTH 6101   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ARTH 6153

Topic: Feminist Posthumanisms in the Visual Arts. view course details

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

  • 17279 ARTH 6153   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ARTH 6545

Topic 2022: Tutorial. 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.  ... view course details

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 4545

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • Topic: Tutorial

  • 17415 ARTH 6545   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ARTH 6556

Exploring a genealogy of Latinx, Afro-Latinx, Black, Indigenous, and Chicana/o/x theorizations of modernity and identity, the course asks, what is the decolonial? Is it a space between the colonial and ... view course details

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none
  • 17365 ARTH 6556   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ARTH 6563

This course surveys the artistic and architectural traditions of Latin America during the period of Spanish colonial rule (ca. 1520s-1820s). It will center primarily on visual cultures of the viceroyalties ... view course details

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 3565LATA 3565VISST 3565

  • 4 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 17264 ARTH 6563   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ARTH 6653

In this course, we will examine the role of electronic and digital technologies in the arts of the late 20th and 21st centuries with emphasis on Europe and North America. Beginning with the cybernetically ... view course details

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none
  • 17466 ARTH 6653   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ARTH 6673

Collaborations among and between Asian and Asian American artists in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries have sought to redefine kinship by exploring the politics of belonging, generational ... view course details

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none
  • 18113 ARTH 6673   SEM 101

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ARTH 6720

For description, see STS 4634.  view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 19132 ARTH 6720   SEM 101

    • R Morrill Hall 423
    • Aug 22 - Dec 5, 2022
    • Ratcliff, J

  • Instruction Mode: In Person

ARTH 6850

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

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none
  • 17267 ARTH 6850   LEC 001

  • Instruction Mode: In Person