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ARTH 1162
FWS: Constellations Relating Image and Text

This seminar considers art and visual culture as sites through which we engage history, philosophy, and the world around us. From art objects to movies, book covers to social media we encounter images ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17655ARTH 1162  SEM 101

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    • TR

    • Fresko, L

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

ARTH 1163
FWS: Origins of Photography

This course will allow freshmen to answer the question: from where, and how, did the idea evolve that one might catch a picture in a net, as one might catch not only a butterfly but the piece of sky in ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17654ARTH 1163  SEM 101

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    • TR

    • Moisey, A

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

ARTH 2000
Introduction to Visual Studies

This course will introduce you to 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.  ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: AMST 2000, COML 2000, VISST 2000

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5426ARTH 2000  LEC 001

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    • TR

    • Moisey, A

  • 17269ARTH 2000  DIS 201

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    • Moisey, A

  • 17270ARTH 2000  DIS 202

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    • Moisey, A

  • 17271ARTH 2000  DIS 203

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    • Moisey, A

  • 17272ARTH 2000  DIS 204

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    • Moisey, A

  • 17273ARTH 2000  DIS 205

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    • Moisey, A

  • 17274ARTH 2000  DIS 206

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    • Moisey, A

ARTH 2355
Introduction to Art History: Medieval Art and Culture

Survey lecture course covering the creation, encoding, and reception of Medieval (roughly AD 500-1500) European, Byzantine, and Islamic architecture, ornament, manuscripts, liturgical and luxury objects.  ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Choose one lecture and one discussion. Combined with: MEDVL 2355

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9281ARTH 2355  LEC 001

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    • TR

    • Anderson, B

      Robinson, C

  •  9282ARTH 2355  DIS 201

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    • W

    • Anderson, B

      Robinson, C

  •  9283ARTH 2355  DIS 202

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    • Anderson, B

      Robinson, C

ARTH 3010
Photography and the American Dream

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

  •  9071ARTH 3010  SEM 101

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    • TR

    • Gaskins, B

ARTH 3225
Archaic & Classical Greece

This lecture class centers on the formative periods of ancient Greek culture, the centuries from about 800-300 BCE. Its aim is to place Greece within the cosmopolitan networks of the Mediterranean and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Combined with: ARKEO 3225, CLASS 3735

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 15661ARTH 3225  LEC 001

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    • MW

    • Alexandridis, A

ARTH 3440
Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael, and their World

Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael transformed the art of their time. Leonardo was an extraordinary thinker, scientist, and engineer as well as artist. Michelangelo invented grandiose projects for ambitious ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Combined with: VISST 3443

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15654ARTH 3440  LEC 001

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    • MW

    • Lazzaro, C

ARTH 3565
Art & Architecture of Colonial Latin America

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

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Syllabi: none

  •   Combined with: LATA 3565, VISST 3565

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15656ARTH 3565  LEC 001

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    • TR

    • Cohen-Aponte, A

ARTH 3651
Women in New Media Art

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

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Syllabi: none

  •   Combined with: FGSS 3655, VISST 3651

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15659ARTH 3651  LEC 001

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    • MW

    • Fernandez, M

ARTH 3800
Introduction to the Arts of China

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 Han ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Combined with: ARKEO 3800, ASIAN 3383

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8683ARTH 3800  LEC 001

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    • TR

    • Pan, A

ARTH 3850
The Arts of Southeast Asia

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

  •   Combined with: ASIAN 3350, VISST 3696

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15909ARTH 3850  LEC 001

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    • TR

    • McGowan, K

ARTH 3902
Curatorial Interventions

The intersectionality between the political landscapes of nation spaces, economic and political forces will be undertaken through curatorial practices for museums and the art market including international ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Combined with: ARTH 6902

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 17074ARTH 3902  SEM 101

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    • TR

    • Rickard, J

ARTH 4155
Topics in Latin American Art

This seminar will investigate question such, such as: How does the inclusion of technologically engaged practices in the history of Latin American art challenge our understanding of this art? Are there ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • Topic: Latin American Modernisms and Technology

  •  9205ARTH 4155  SEM 101

  •  
    • W

    • Fernandez, M

ARTH 4160
Topics in Colonial Encounters

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

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Syllabi: none

  • Topic: Art and Identity in Colonial Latin America

  • 16952ARTH 4160  SEM 101

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    • R

    • Cohen-Aponte, A

ARTH 4171
19th Century Art and Culture

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

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  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  6372ARTH 4171  SEM 180

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

    Instructor Consent Required (Add)

ARTH 4353
Ephesos, An Ancient Metropolis

This traveling seminar explores the history and archaeology of one of the largest metropoleis of the ancient world. Situated on the west coast of Anatolia (or Asia Minor), modern Turkey, Ephesos was part ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 17078ARTH 4353  SEM 101

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    • Alexandridis, A

      Anderson, B

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

ARTH 4558
Shaping Jewish Memory: Monuments, Memorials and Museums

This course examines how memory has been expressed in Jewish tradition in physical and spatial form, especially though the creation of commemorative objects, records, markers, monuments and museums. The ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 16876ARTH 4558  SEM 101

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    • R

    • Staff

ARTH 4606
Rembrandt: Flesh Paint Performance

Rembrandt was typical and exceptional in seventeenth-century Holland: typical because subject to the same market forces as others, and exceptional because he flouted that market, alienated patrons, and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Combined with: ARTH 6606

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15705ARTH 4606  SEM 101

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    • T

    • Pincus, L

ARTH 4820
Art in Zen and Zen in Art

This course explores how the art of Zen (Chan) developed in China and was transmitted to Korea and Japan. It will also examine how ideas of Zen informed Western Modern art in both Europe and North America, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 16520ARTH 4820  SEM 101

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    • T

    • Pan, A

ARTH 4851
Performing Objects/Collecting Cultures

The twin phenomena of performing and collecting are as old as time, and both require an intense entanglement with things. This seminar examines the significance of objects and their related texts within ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • 16884ARTH 4851  SEM 101

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    • W

    • McGowan, K

ARTH 4992
Independent Study

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

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  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  6872ARTH 4992  IND 601

    • TBA

    • Alexandridis, A

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

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Syllabi: none

  •  

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  6873ARTH 4992  IND 603

    • TBA

    • Dadi, I

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

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Syllabi: none

  •  

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  6874ARTH 4992  IND 604

    • TBA

    • Fernandez, M

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

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Syllabi: none

  •  

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  6875ARTH 4992  IND 605

    • TBA

    • Finley, C

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

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Syllabi: none

  •  

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  6876ARTH 4992  IND 606

    • TBA

    • Hassan, S

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

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Syllabi: none

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  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  6877ARTH 4992  IND 607

    • TBA

    • Lazzaro, C

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

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Syllabi: none

  •  

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  6878ARTH 4992  IND 608

    • TBA

    • McGowan, K

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

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Syllabi: none

  •  

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  6879ARTH 4992  IND 610

    • TBA

    • Rickard, J

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

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Syllabi: none

  •  

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  6960ARTH 4992  IND 611

    • TBA

    • Pan, A

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

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Syllabi: none

  •  

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  6961ARTH 4992  IND 612

    • TBA

    • Robinson, C

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

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Syllabi: none

  •  

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  7614ARTH 4992  IND 614

    • TBA

    • Cohen-Aponte, A

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

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Syllabi: none

  •  

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  7615ARTH 4992  IND 615

    • TBA

    • Anderson, B

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

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Syllabi: none

  •  

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  7616ARTH 4992  IND 616

    • TBA

    • Pincus, L

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

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Syllabi: none

  •  

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  8421ARTH 4992  IND 617

    • TBA

    • Moisey, A

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

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Syllabi: none

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  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  9530ARTH 4992  IND 618

    • TBA

    • Johnson, C

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

ARTH 4999
Honors Work II

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

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  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  9232ARTH 4999  IND 601

    • TBA

    • Moisey, A

  • Department Consent Required (Add)

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Syllabi: none

  •  

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17090ARTH 4999  IND 602

  •  
    • TBA

    • Fernandez, M

ARTH 5992
Supervised Reading

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

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  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6888ARTH 5992  IND 602

    • TBA

    • Alexandridis, A

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

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Syllabi: none

  •  

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6889ARTH 5992  IND 603

    • TBA

    • Dadi, I

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

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Syllabi: none

  •  

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6890ARTH 5992  IND 604

    • TBA

    • Fernandez, M

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

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Syllabi: none

  •  

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6891ARTH 5992  IND 605

    • TBA

    • Finley, C

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

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Syllabi: none

  •  

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6892ARTH 5992  IND 606

    • TBA

    • Hassan, S

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

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Syllabi: none

  •  

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6893ARTH 5992  IND 607

    • TBA

    • Lazzaro, C

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

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Syllabi: none

  •  

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6894ARTH 5992  IND 608

    • TBA

    • McGowan, K

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

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Syllabi: none

  •  

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6895ARTH 5992  IND 610

    • TBA

    • Rickard, J

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

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Syllabi: none

  •  

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6962ARTH 5992  IND 611

    • TBA

    • Pan, A

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

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Syllabi: none

  •  

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6963ARTH 5992  IND 612

    • TBA

    • Robinson, C

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

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Syllabi: none

  •  

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7617ARTH 5992  IND 614

    • TBA

    • Cohen-Aponte, A

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

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Syllabi: none

  •  

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7618ARTH 5992  IND 615

    • TBA

    • Anderson, B

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

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Syllabi: none

  •  

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7619ARTH 5992  IND 616

    • TBA

    • Pincus, L

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

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Syllabi: none

  •  

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8418ARTH 5992  IND 617

    • TBA

    • Moisey, A

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

ARTH 5994
Supervised Study

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

  •  

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6880ARTH 5994  IND 601

    • TBA

    • Alexandridis, A

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

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Syllabi: none

  •  

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6881ARTH 5994  IND 603

    • TBA

    • Dadi, I

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

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Syllabi: none

  •  

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6882ARTH 5994  IND 604

    • TBA

    • Fernandez, M

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

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Syllabi: none

  •  

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6883ARTH 5994  IND 605

    • TBA

    • Finley, C

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

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Syllabi: none

  •  

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6884ARTH 5994  IND 606

    • TBA

    • Hassan, S

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

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Syllabi: none

  •  

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6885ARTH 5994  IND 607

    • TBA

    • Lazzaro, C

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

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Syllabi: none

  •  

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6886ARTH 5994  IND 608

    • TBA

    • McGowan, K

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

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Syllabi: none

  •  

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6887ARTH 5994  IND 610

    • TBA

    • Rickard, J

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

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Syllabi: none

  •  

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6968ARTH 5994  IND 611

    • TBA

    • Pan, A

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

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Syllabi: none

  •  

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6969ARTH 5994  IND 612

    • TBA

    • Robinson, C

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

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Syllabi: none

  •  

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7303ARTH 5994  IND 613

    • TBA

    • Pincus, L

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

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Syllabi: none

  •  

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7620ARTH 5994  IND 615

    • TBA

    • Cohen-Aponte, A

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

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Syllabi: none

  •  

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7621ARTH 5994  IND 616

    • TBA

    • Anderson, B

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

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Syllabi: none

  •  

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8419ARTH 5994  IND 617

    • TBA

    • Moisey, A

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

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Syllabi: none

  •  

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9531ARTH 5994  IND 618

    • TBA

    • Johnson, C

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

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Syllabi: none

  •  

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  9665ARTH 5994  IND 619

    • TBA

    • Samuels, S

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

ARTH 6155
Topics in Latin American Art

This seminar will investigate question such, such as: How does the inclusion of technologically engaged practices in the history of Latin American art challenge our understanding of this art? Are there ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  • Topic: Latin American Modernisms and Technology

  •  9208ARTH 6155  SEM 101

  •  
    • W

    • Fernandez, M

ARTH 6160
Topics in Colonial Encounters

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

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Syllabi: none

  • Topic: Art and Identity in Colonial Latin America

  • 16956ARTH 6160  SEM 101

  •  
    • R

    • Cohen-Aponte, A

ARTH 6353
Ephesos, An Ancient Metropolis

This traveling seminar explores the history and archaeology of one of the largest metropoleis of the ancient world. Situated on the west coast of Anatolia (or Asia Minor), modern Turkey, Ephesos was part ... view course details

View Enrollment Information

Enrollment Information
Syllabi: none

  • 17084ARTH 6353  SEM 101

    • W

    • Alexandridis, A

      Anderson, B

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

ARTH 6558
Shaping Jewish Memory: Monuments, Memorials and Museums

This course examines how memory has been expressed in Jewish tradition in physical and spatial form, especially though the creation of commemorative objects, records, markers, monuments and museums. The ... view course details

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Enrollment Information
Syllabi: none

  • 16878ARTH 6558  SEM 101

  •  
    • R

    • Staff

ARTH 6606
Rembrandt: Flesh Paint Performance

Rembrandt was typical and exceptional in seventeenth-century Holland: typical because subject to the same market forces as others, and exceptional because he flouted that market, alienated patrons, and ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Combined with: ARTH 4606

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 15706ARTH 6606  SEM 101

  •  
    • T

    • Pincus, L

ARTH 6820
Art in Zen and Zen in Art

This course explores how the art of Zen (Chan) developed in China and was transmitted to Korea and Japan. It will also examine how ideas of Zen informed Western Modern art in both Europe and North America, ... view course details

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Enrollment Information
Syllabi: none

  • 16523ARTH 6820  SEM 101

    • T

    • Pan, A

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

ARTH 6851
Performing Objects/Collecting Cultures

The twin phenomena of performing and collecting are as old as time, and both require an intense entanglement with things. This seminar examines the significance of objects and their related texts within ... view course details

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Enrollment Information
Syllabi: none

  • 16889ARTH 6851  SEM 101

    • W

    • McGowan, K

  • Instructor Consent Required (Add)

ARTH 6902
Curatorial Interventions

The intersectionality between the political landscapes of nation spaces, economic and political forces will be undertaken through curatorial practices for museums and the art market including international ... view course details

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Syllabi: none

  •   Combined with: ARTH 3902

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  • 17075ARTH 6902  SEM 101

  •  
    • TR

    • Rickard, J