History of Art (ARTH)Arts and Sciences

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

ARTH 1152

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17663 ARTH 1152   SEM 101

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

ARTH 1153

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17664 ARTH 1153   SEM 101

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

ARTH 1154

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Syllabi: none
  •   FWS Session. 

  • 3 Credits Graded

  • 17665 ARTH 1154   SEM 101

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

ARTH 2000

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
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 2000COML 2000VISST 2000

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  5094 ARTH 2000   LEC 001

ARTH 2019

Borrowing its title from a formulation of Marxist philosopher Ernst Bloch, and beginning from the "forays of demoralization" instigated by the Dadas, who bequeathed to surrealism the precious ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 2200ROMS 2200VISST 2190

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  8565 ARTH 2019   SEM 101

ARTH 2101

This course explores Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) knowledge and its application across the disciplines and through time. In particular, it offers a glimpse into Cornell's local indigenous culture ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AIS 2100AMST 2108

  • 3 Credits Graded

  •  8963 ARTH 2101   LEC 001

ARTH 2200

Why did the Gorgon turn people into stone? Did Cleopatra really have such a big nose? Did the Romans make wax death masks? Should the British Museum return the Parthenon Marbles to Greece? Come and explore ... 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 Stdnt Opt

  •  7732 ARTH 2200   LEC 001

  •  7793 ARTH 2200   DIS 201

  •  7794 ARTH 2200   DIS 202

ARTH 2600

Considers modern art in a historical and cultural context, from painting associated with the French Revolution through American pop art. The emphasis is on major movements and artists: Neo-Classicism (David), ... view course details

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

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7570 ARTH 2600   LEC 001

  •  7571 ARTH 2600   DIS 202

  •  7572 ARTH 2600   DIS 203

  •  7573 ARTH 2600   DIS 204

  •  7574 ARTH 2600   DIS 205

  •  8527 ARTH 2600   DIS 207

  •  7575 ARTH 2600   DIS 208

ARTH 3010

Who are 'the poor' in the United States? Who are the largest recipients of federal welfare and entitlement spending? Why is there an unprecedented simultaneous increase in wealth and poverty in the United ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: AMST 3010VISST 3010

  • 4 Credits GradeNoAud

  •  8906 ARTH 3010   SEM 101

ARTH 3440

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
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: VISST 3443

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16255 ARTH 3440   LEC 001

ARTH 3510

This course is a survey of the visual art and material cultural traditions of sub-Saharan Africa. It aims at investigating the different forms of visual artistic traditions in relation to their historical ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASRC 3501

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17114 ARTH 3510   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 Stdnt Opt

  • 16257 ARTH 3600   LEC 001

ARTH 3765

This course traces the exchanges between spectacular entertainments and avant-garde art that shaped late nineteenth-century European visual culture, and gave rise to collective spectatorship transgressing ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: FREN 3765VISST 3765

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16389 ARTH 3765   LEC 001

ARTH 3820

As an island nation east of the Asian continent, Japan developed a unique culture that reflects both continental and indigenous characteristics. This course examines pre- and post-contact with continental ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ASIAN 3381

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16380 ARTH 3820   LEC 001

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

  •  6182 ARTH 4171   SEM 180

  • Taught in Washington DC.

ARTH 4351

Seminar topics rotate each semester. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • Topic: Ravenna

  • 16743 ARTH 4351   SEM 101

ARTH 4577

The aim of this course is to present a map of theories and artistic strategies in order to better understand the validity of the anachronism and obsolescence in today's culture. During recent years, artists ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: COML 4006SHUM 4507VISST 4577

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17488 ARTH 4577   SEM 101

ARTH 4604

This course evaluates the immense popularity of 17th-century Dutch artists Rembrandt and Vermeer. Together these two great exponents of the Golden Age span three-quarters of their century, from ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 6604VISST 4604

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16383 ARTH 4604   SEM 101

ARTH 4642

The goal of this course is to investigate in-depth the principles of aesthetics and philosophy of African visual arts. The course will offer a critical survey of the different writings and the growing ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 6506ASRC 4406ASRC 6506

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17116 ARTH 4642   SEM 101

ARTH 4748

Classical literature has bequeathed us the names of many celebrated Greek artists, from Pheidias, who made the colossal statue of Olympian Zeus, to Apelles, the court painter of Alexander the Great. Strikingly, ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16400 ARTH 4748   SEM 101

ARTH 4754

This seminar provides a higher-level general introduction to, and survey of, contemporary theories, methods, and approaches in the archaeology of the Mediterranean world. Rather than focusing on a specific ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • 16980 ARTH 4754   SEM 101

ARTH 4761

Seminar topics rotate each semester. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  • Topic: Mass Culture in the Great Depression

  •  7128 ARTH 4761   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 GradeNoAud

  • 16385 ARTH 4816   SEM 101

ARTH 4992

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

  •  6691 ARTH 4992   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Alexandridis, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  6692 ARTH 4992   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Bernstock, J

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  6693 ARTH 4992   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Dadi, I

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  6694 ARTH 4992   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Fernandez, M

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  6695 ARTH 4992   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Finley, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  6696 ARTH 4992   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Hassan, S

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  6697 ARTH 4992   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Lazzaro, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  6698 ARTH 4992   IND 608

    • TBA
    • McGowan, K

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  6699 ARTH 4992   IND 609

    • TBA
    • Meixner, L

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  6700 ARTH 4992   IND 610

    • TBA
    • Rickard, J

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  6787 ARTH 4992   IND 611

    • TBA
    • Pan, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  6788 ARTH 4992   IND 612

    • TBA
    • Robinson, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  7576 ARTH 4992   IND 614

    • TBA
    • Cohen Suarez, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  7577 ARTH 4992   IND 615

    • TBA
    • Anderson, B

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  •  7578 ARTH 4992   IND 616

    • TBA
    • Pincus, L

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Graded

  • 17247 ARTH 4992   IND 617

    • TBA
    • Moisey, A

ARTH 4998

No description available. view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Multi-Term

  •  6178 ARTH 4998   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Staff

ARTH 4999

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

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  6179 ARTH 4999   RSC 701

    • TBA
    • Alexandridis, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  7972 ARTH 4999   RSC 702

    • TBA
    • Anderson, B

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8937 ARTH 4999   RSC 703

    • TBA
    • Meixner, L

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8938 ARTH 4999   RSC 704

    • TBA
    • McGowan, K

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  •  8945 ARTH 4999   RSC 705

    • TBA
    • Cohen Suarez, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 18543 ARTH 4999   RSC 706

    • TBA
    • Bernstock, J

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 18544 ARTH 4999   RSC 707

    • TBA
    • Moisey, A

ARTH 5992

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

  •  6711 ARTH 5992   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Bernstock, J

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6712 ARTH 5992   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Alexandridis, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6713 ARTH 5992   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Dadi, I

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6714 ARTH 5992   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Fernandez, M

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6715 ARTH 5992   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Finley, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6716 ARTH 5992   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Hassan, S

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6717 ARTH 5992   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Lazzaro, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6718 ARTH 5992   IND 608

    • TBA
    • McGowan, K

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6719 ARTH 5992   IND 609

    • TBA
    • Meixner, L

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6720 ARTH 5992   IND 610

    • TBA
    • Rickard, J

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6789 ARTH 5992   IND 611

    • TBA
    • Pan, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6790 ARTH 5992   IND 612

    • TBA
    • Robinson, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7579 ARTH 5992   IND 614

    • TBA
    • Cohen Suarez, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7580 ARTH 5992   IND 615

    • TBA
    • Anderson, B

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7581 ARTH 5992   IND 616

    • TBA
    • Pincus, L

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17230 ARTH 5992   IND 617

    • TBA
    • Moisey, A

ARTH 5994

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

  •  6701 ARTH 5994   IND 601

    • TBA
    • Alexandridis, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6702 ARTH 5994   IND 602

    • TBA
    • Bernstock, J

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6703 ARTH 5994   IND 603

    • TBA
    • Dadi, I

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6704 ARTH 5994   IND 604

    • TBA
    • Fernandez, M

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6705 ARTH 5994   IND 605

    • TBA
    • Finley, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6706 ARTH 5994   IND 606

    • TBA
    • Hassan, S

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6707 ARTH 5994   IND 607

    • TBA
    • Lazzaro, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6708 ARTH 5994   IND 608

    • TBA
    • McGowan, K

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6709 ARTH 5994   IND 609

    • TBA
    • Meixner, L

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6710 ARTH 5994   IND 610

    • TBA
    • Rickard, J

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6795 ARTH 5994   IND 611

    • TBA
    • Pan, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  6796 ARTH 5994   IND 612

    • TBA
    • Robinson, C

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7218 ARTH 5994   IND 613

    • TBA
    • Pincus, L

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7582 ARTH 5994   IND 615

    • TBA
    • Cohen Suarez, A

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  •  7583 ARTH 5994   IND 616

    • TBA
    • Anderson, B

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session. 

  • 1-4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17231 ARTH 5994   IND 617

    • TBA
    • Moisey, A

ARTH 6351

Seminar topics rotate each semester. view course details

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none
  • Topic: Ravenna

  • 16738 ARTH 6351   SEM 101

ARTH 6506

The goal of this course is to investigate in-depth the principles of aesthetics and philosophy of African visual arts. The course will offer a critical survey of the different writings and the growing ... view course details

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 4642ASRC 4406ASRC 6506

  • 4 Credits Graded

  • 17886 ARTH 6506   SEM 101

ARTH 6560

This course investigates the emergence of aesthetics as its own philosophical discipline at the end of the eighteenth century.  In a first phase, we will examine the rationalist articulation of aesthetics ... view course details

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Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: GERST 6560PHIL 6951

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 17897 ARTH 6560   SEM 101

ARTH 6604

This course evaluates the immense popularity of 17th-century Dutch artists Rembrandt and Vermeer. Together these two great exponents of the Golden Age span three-quarters of their century, from ... view course details

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none
  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: ARTH 4604VISST 4604

  • 4 Credits Stdnt Opt

  • 16382 ARTH 6604   SEM 101

ARTH 6748

Classical literature has bequeathed us the names of many celebrated Greek artists, from Pheidias, who made the colossal statue of Olympian Zeus, to Apelles, the court painter of Alexander the Great. Strikingly, ... view course details

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none
  • 16414 ARTH 6748   SEM 101

ARTH 6754

This seminar provides a higher-level general introduction to, and survey of, contemporary theories, methods, and approaches in the archaeology of the Mediterranean world. Rather than focusing on a specific ... view course details

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none
  • 16985 ARTH 6754   SEM 101

ARTH 6761

Seminar topics rotate each semester. view course details

View Enrollment Information

Syllabi: none
  • Topic: Mass Culture in the Great Depression

  • 16748 ARTH 6761   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 GradeNoAud

  • 16387 ARTH 6816   SEM 101