History of Art (ARTH)Arts and Sciences
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Course descriptions provided by the 2026-2027 Catalog.
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- Schedule of Classes - August 31, 2026 7:07PM EDT
Classes
ARTH 1100
Course Description
This team-taught course introduces students to the History of Art as a global and interdisciplinary field. Led by a selection of professors from the department, in collaboration with staff and faculty ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: SHUM 1100
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Section Topic
Topic: Materiality
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR
- Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
Instructors
Lin, N
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Section Topic
Topic: Materiality
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F
- Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
Instructors
Lin, N
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Section Topic
Topic: Materiality
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F
- Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
Instructors
Lin, N
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Section Topic
Topic: Materiality
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- M
- Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
Instructors
Lin, N
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
ARTH 2400
Course Description
This course offers an introduction to the diverse global encounters and exchanges that shaped early modern European art and material culture, c.1400-1650. The course will be structured around nine European ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: VISST 2645
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW
- Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
Instructors
Howie, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F
- Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
Instructors
Howie, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
ARTH 2500
Course Description
This course examines the prehistory, invention, and uses of photography in the nineteenth century. Special attention is paid to the colonial and cultural histories of photography’s early appearances around ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: VISST 2500
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR
- Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
Instructors
Moisey, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- F
- Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
Instructors
Moisey, A
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
ARTH 2700
Course Description
This course surveys global and American black art and visuality from the 18th century to the present and introduces its major figures, movements, criticisms and social, political, and economic issues. ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 2700, ASRC 2700
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- MW
- Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
Instructors
Ekpo, P
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
ARTH 2750
Course Description
These seminars offer an introduction to the humanities by exploring historical, cultural, social, and political themes. Students will explore themes in critical dialogue with a range of texts and media ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: CLASS 2750, SHUM 2750, VISST 2750
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
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Section Topic
Topic: The Art of Reading
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- TR
- Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
Instructors
Platt, V
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
For course description, see https://as.cornell.edu/research/hsp-core-courses.
ARTH 3250
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Choose one lecture and one laboratory. Combined with: ARKEO 3090, ARKEO 6755, CLASS 3750, CLASS 6755, MEDVL 3750
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- W
- Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
Instructors
Manning, S
Oliver, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
Instructors
Manning, S
Oliver, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
Instructors
Manning, S
Oliver, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
Instructors
Manning, S
Oliver, J
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: In Person
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
ARTH 3315
Course Description
Grounded entirely in the collection of our on-campus museum, this course will introduce students to a broad chronological and geographical selection of examples of ‘Islamic’ visual culture via close encounters ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 6315
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
ARTH 3651
Course Description
The work of women artists has been central to the development of new media art. These rich and varied practices include installation, virtual reality environments, net art, digital video, networked performance, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: FGSS 3655, SHUM 3651, VISST 3651
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
ARTH 3850
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 6850, ASIAN 3350, MEDVL 3850, MEDVL 6850, VISST 3696
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
ARTH 3910
Course Description
This lecture course explores the intertwined histories of art, architecture, and visual culture during the Global Cold War. Tracing a time period from the end of the World War II to the close of the twentieth ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 6910, VISST 3910
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
ARTH 4101
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 6101, VISST 4101
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
ARTH 4153
Course Description
Fall 2024 Topic: Feminist Posthumanisms in Visual Arts. While feminist art in new media address traditional feminist concerns such as the female body, identity, representation, feminist history, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 6153, FGSS 4153, FGSS 6153, VISST 4153
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
ARTH 4160
Course Description
The colonial period in Latin America (circa 1521-1820s) witnessed the formation of one of the most diverse societies in the world. Labor regimes, religious activities, marriage alliances, and commercial ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 6160, LATA 4160, LATA 6160, VISST 4160
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
ARTH 4211
Course Description
This seminar explores the numerous ways in which a picture can be worth a thousand words. Offering a global and comparative perspective, it examines the complex relationship between narrative and image ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 6211
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
ARTH 4310
Course Description
Topic: Writing Through the Forest in Search of Trees. Hello, Humanities Student! Are you a plotter or a pantser? Not sure? Come and join us to find out, and to gain valuable insight into what kind of a ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 6310, JWST 4310, JWST 6310, MEDVL 4310, MEDVL 6310, NES 4700, NES 6700, RELST 4310, RELST 6310, SPAN 4570, SPAN 6590
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
ARTH 4465
Course Description
This seminar analyzes the contours of early modern Europe's material landscape and the ways in which global exchanges and technological advancements impacted material production and consumption. Working ... view course details
ARTH 4545
Course Description
Satisfies Tutorial Requirement. 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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 6545
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
ARTH 4774
Course Description
The materiality of art as willful agents will be considered from ontology to an Indigenous expression of more than human relations. Located at the intersection of multiple modernities, art and science; ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4774, AMST 6774, ANTHR 4774, ANTHR 7774, ART 3874, ARTH 6774
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
ARTH 4816
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 6816, ASIAN 4473, ASIAN 6673, SHUM 4916
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
ARTH 4845
Course Description
Since the mid-twentieth century, artists based in and across East Asia have turned to performance art, using bodily actions to blur the boundaries between art and everyday social life. This course analyzes ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 6845, ASIAN 4845, ASIAN 6845
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
ARTH 4854
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 6854, ASIAN 4499, VISST 4854, VISST 6854
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
ARTH 4991
Course Description
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
Project Session Full.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1-4 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
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Class Number & Section Details
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Meeting Pattern
- Aug 24 - Dec 7, 2026
Instructors
Staff
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Additional Information
Instruction Mode: Independent Studies
See https://as.cornell.edu/registrar/independent-study for more information on applying for Independent Study.
Instructor Consent Required (Add)
ARTH 4997
Course Description
This independent study course offers history of art majors (i.e., undergraduates whose applications to affiliate with the history of art major have been approved) an opportunity to reflect on concepts ... view course details
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
1 Credit S/U NoAud(Satisfactory/Unsatisfactory (no audit))
ARTH 4998
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Multi-Term(Multi-Term Course: Not Graded)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Multi-Term(Multi-Term Course: Not Graded)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Multi-Term(Multi-Term Course: Not Graded)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Multi-Term(Multi-Term Course: Not Graded)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Multi-Term(Multi-Term Course: Not Graded)
Regular Academic Session.
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Credits and Grading Basis
4 Credits Multi-Term(Multi-Term Course: Not Graded)
ARTH 5991
Course Description
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
ARTH 5993
Course Description
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
ARTH 6000
Course Description
This graduate seminar introduces a range of research methods in art history and visual studies. We will read and discuss a series of texts related to the history and current practice of the discipline ... view course details
ARTH 6101
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4101, VISST 4101
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
ARTH 6153
Course Description
Fall 24 Topic: Feminist Posthumanisms in Visual Arts. While feminist art in new media address traditional feminist concerns such as the female body, identity, representation, feminist history, and consumerism, ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4153, FGSS 4153, FGSS 6153, VISST 4153
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
ARTH 6160
Course Description
The colonial period in Latin America (circa 1521-1820s) witnessed the formation of one of the most diverse societies in the world. Labor regimes, religious activities, marriage alliances, and commercial ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4160, LATA 4160, LATA 6160, VISST 4160
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
ARTH 6211
Course Description
This seminar explores the numerous ways in which a picture can be worth a thousand words. Offering a global and comparative perspective, it examines the complex relationship between narrative and image ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4211
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
ARTH 6310
Course Description
Topic: Writing Through the Forest in Search of Trees. Hello, Humanities Student! Are you a plotter or a pantser? Not sure? Come and join us to find out, and to gain valuable insight into what kind of a ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4310, JWST 4310, JWST 6310, MEDVL 4310, MEDVL 6310, NES 4700, NES 6700, RELST 4310, RELST 6310, SPAN 4570, SPAN 6590
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Graded(Letter grades only)
ARTH 6315
Course Description
Grounded entirely in the collection of our on-campus museum, this course will introduce students to a broad chronological and geographical selection of examples of ‘Islamic’ visual culture via close encounters ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 3315
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
ARTH 6465
Course Description
This seminar analyzes the contours of early modern Europe's material landscape and the ways in which global exchanges and technological advancements impacted material production and consumption. Working ... view course details
ARTH 6510
Course Description
After having been reduced to a mere ideological formation of bourgeois origin, aesthetics has recently made a strong comeback in the field of theory. This course probes the reasons for this historical ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: COML 6370, GERST 4509, GERST 6510, GOVT 6517, VISST 6500
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Stdnt Opt(Letter or S/U grades)
ARTH 6545
Course Description
Topic 2024: 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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4545
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
ARTH 6774
Course Description
The materiality of art as willful agents will be considered from ontology to an Indigenous expression of more than human relations. Located at the intersection of multiple modernities, art and science; ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: AMST 4774, AMST 6774, ANTHR 4774, ANTHR 7774, ART 3874, ARTH 4774
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
ARTH 6816
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4816, ASIAN 4473, ASIAN 6673, SHUM 4916
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
ARTH 6845
Course Description
Since the mid-twentieth century, artists based in and across East Asia have turned to performance art, using bodily actions to blur the boundaries between art and everyday social life. This course analyzes ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4845, ASIAN 4845, ASIAN 6845
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
ARTH 6850
Course Description
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
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 3850, ASIAN 3350, MEDVL 3850, MEDVL 6850, VISST 3696
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
ARTH 6854
Course Description
No description available. view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 4854, ASIAN 4499, VISST 4854, VISST 6854
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits Opt NoAud(Letter or S/U grades (no audit))
ARTH 6910
Course Description
This lecture course explores the intertwined histories of art, architecture, and visual culture during the Global Cold War. Tracing a time period from the end of the World War II to the close of the twentieth ... view course details
Regular Academic Session. Combined with: ARTH 3910, VISST 3910
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Credits and Grading Basis
3 Credits GradeNoAud(Letter grades only (no audit))
