Courses of Study 2020-2021 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Cornell University Course Descriptions
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ARKEO—Archaeology |
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ARKEO 7743 - Archaeology of the Hellenistic Mediterranean (crosslisted) CLASS 7743 , NES 7743
Fall. 4 credits. Letter grades only.
Prerequisite: some previous coursework in either classics or archaeology. Enrollment limited to: graduate students.
C. Barrett.
For description, see CLASS 7743 .
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ARKEO 7758 - [Archaeology of Greek Religion: Theory, Methods, and Practice] (crosslisted) ANTHR 7758 , CLASS 7758 , NES 7758 , RELST 7758
Spring. Not offered: 2020-2021. Next offered: 2022-2023. 4 credits. Letter grades only.
Prerequisite: some background in classics, archaeology, or related disciplines is recommended, but not required. Enrollment limited to: graduate students.
C. Barrett.
For description, see CLASS 7758 .
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ARKEO 8901 - Master’s Thesis
Fall. 1-4 credits, variable. S/U grades only.
Enrollment limited to: master’s students in Archaeology.
Staff.
Students, working individually with faculty member(s), prepare a master’s thesis in archaeology.
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ARKEO 8902 - Master’s Thesis
Spring. 1-4 credits, variable. S/U grades only.
Enrollment limited to: master’s students in Archaeology.
Staff.
Students, working individually with faculty member(s), prepare a master’s thesis in archaeology.
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ART—Art |
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ART 1101 - Art as Experience
(LA-AAP)
Summer (three-week session). 3 credits. Student option grading.
Counts as free elective credit for BFA students.
Staff.
Art as Experience is an introductory course that expands a student’s understanding of the ideas and practices of art today. Studio projects will introduce a broad range of mediums from drawing and collage to digital photography and video installation. Students will explore and respond to resources at Cornell University and the course will be supplemented with readings, critiques and field trips. The course will culminate in an exhibition where students will be responsible for the organization and installation of self-directed art work.
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ART 1102 - Art as Experience: TransMedia
(LA-AAP)
Summer. 3 credits. Student option grading.
Counts as free elective credit for B.F.A. students.
Staff.
Working with cameras, audio recorders, physical computing boards and computer software, this course introduces students to digital art creation, manipulation and theory. Students will have hands on experience with digital image acquisition, recording and editing video and sound, and computer programming for interactive media based applications. Learning will be fun, challenging, exciting and will open the student to new possibilities for creating dynamic media art. Topics addressed during the course will include digital photography, digital video, audio and video editing, stop-animation, slow-motion video, macro photography, programming for audio/ visual interaction, and physical computing.
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ART 1103 - Art as Experience: Sculpture
(LA-AAP)
Summer. 3 credits. Student option grading.
Free elective for B.F.A. students.
Staff.
Sculpture is distinguishable from other visual arts through its inherent use of space and reliance on an enormous range of materials. It is in our space, it makes us move in a certain way and it makes us want to move in a certain way. Because sculpture is physical like us, we respond to it on a visceral level. Sculpture can also be made out of literally anything, and each “anything” already comes with its own meanings and associations. All of these are givens, even before we decide what our work is about. This is what makes sculpture so powerful and exciting, and also so challenging. This course begins by exploring these givens though a number of very specific assignments and discussions. After a level of class-wide proficiency has been attained each student will develop their own line of inquiry and develop highly individualized projects.
Students learn basic woodworking, mold making, casting in both plaster and concrete. Classes include process and materials demonstrations, introductions to relevant artists’ work, and discussions about student projects.
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ART 1500 - Summer Drawing I
Summer (weeks 1-3). 3 credits. Student option grading.
Counts as free elective credit for BFA students.
Staff.
General course introduces students to principles and techniques of representation. Emphasis is on creating the illusion of space and form through line, the rendering of light and shade, and studies in perspective. Students have the opportunity to explore various media such as charcoal, chalk, pencil, pen, ink, and wash.
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ART 1503 - Summer Drawing II
Summer. 3 credits. Student option grading.
Counts as free elective credit for BFA students.
Staff.
General course in drawing that emphasizes figure study and life drawing. Builds on the foundation of ART 1500 and concentrates on the analytical study of the figure. Students explore a variety of materials, traditional and contemporary.
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ART 1504 - Introduction to Drawing in Rome
(CA-AAP, LA-AAP) (CU-ITL)
Fall, Spring. 3 credits. Student option grading.
Counts as free elective for BFA students; counts as art studio credit for B.Arch. students. Offered in Rome, Italy.
Staff.
This course introduces students to principles and techniques of representation. Emphasis is on creating the illusion of space and form through line, the rendering of light and shade, and studies in perspective. Students have the opportunity to explore various media such as charcoal, chalk, pencil, pen, ink, and wash. Assumes no prior knowledge of drawing.
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ART 1505 - Drawing Rome
(CA-AAP, LA-AAP) (CU-ITL)
Summer. 3 credits. Student option grading.
Counts as free elective credit for BFA students. Offered in Rome, Italy.
Staff.
The course introduces students to methods of representing space and form through a study and application of perspective and the effects of light and shade. Uses of line, tone, and color will be investigated. The subject is the city of Rome: its public spaces, churches, museums, archaeological zones, and the residents and visitors who occupy it. A variety of materials are used including pencil, ink, charcoal, pastel and collage. With the exception of one or two in-studio sessions, all work will be done onsite in Rome. Course meets four weeks, five times per week.
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ART 1601 - Introduction to Digital Photography
(CA-AAP, LA-AAP)
Fall, Spring, Summer. 3 credits. Student option grading.
Counts as free elective credit for B.F.A. students.
Staff.
In this course, you will explore how to visualize the world as a photographer. You will use the fundamentals of photography to improve your ability to take and share pictures. In addition, you will learn how to control the camera, the process, and the lighting in order to get the results you desire. Throughout this course, you will learn how to create photographs that affect people, make them think, gain their interest, and touch their emotions. You will also create a photographic or project assignment. Lastly, you will learn how to work in a professional manor, whether you us photography for pleasure or towards a future career.
In order to be successful in this course you will need a digital camera. A Digital SLR camera with a standard zoom lens, or any digital camera with zoom that allows for manual focus, aperture, and shutter adjustments is recommended. It is also possible to complete this course with the camera built into a smartphone if no other camera is available to you.
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ART 1602 - Introduction to Photography in Rome
(CA-AAP, LA-AAP) (CU-ITL)
Fall, Spring. 3 credits. Student option grading.
Counts as free elective for BFA students; counts as art studio credit for B.Arch. students. Offered in Rome, Italy. A digital SLR camera with manual functions is required.
Staff.
Drawing on Rome’s historic and contemporary resources for inspiration, this course introduces photography as a means to visual interpretation and authorship. It addresses concepts essential to lens based artistic practice, as well as the technical foundations of digital photography. In this course students learn about diverse approaches to image making with the camera, and develop a body of work referencing their Rome experience. The course includes lectures, critiques, studio assignments, and visits to museums, galleries, and photography studios.
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ART 1909 - Internship Practicum
Fall, Spring, Summer. 1 credit. S/U grades only.
Counts as free elective credit. If internship requires verification of academic credit, send a written request to aap-studentservices@cornell.edu after enrolling in ART 1909.
Director of Undergraduate Studies.
Students secure a professional internship with an art organization where they engage in challenging professional activity designed to assist them in experience across the breadth of art practice. The organization may be any art-related business, institution, or studio. Students are required to maintain a regular journal reflecting their engagement with the practice, submit a 5-10 page paper to the instructor summarizing the relevance of the internship experience to their professional goals and obtain an official letter from the internship sponsor confirming successful performance of internship responsibilities.
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ART 2103 - First-Year Studio Research Workshop
Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.
Counts as Theory and Criticism for BFA students.
Staff.
This course considers the social, cultural, economic, political, and art historical influences that define and redefine contemporary art and artists in the twenty-first century. First year BFA students will be introduced to art as a dynamic aesthetic, analytical, subjective and social form of expression, communication, thought and material production. A wide range of works and ideas and approaches will be explored taking a non-hierarchal approach.
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ART 2201 - Painting: Introduction to Painting
(CA-AAP, LA-AAP)
Fall, Spring, Summer. 4 credits. Student option grading.
Staff.
Studies the language of painting through color, form, materials, and techniques. Aspects of traditional and modern pictorial composition are studied including proportion, space, and color theory through the representation of a variety of subjects.
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ART 2301 - Print Media: Introduction to Print Media
(CA-AAP, LA-AAP)
Fall, Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.
Staff.
This is an inclusive course that offers an expanded study of traditional printmaking processes through experimental print media. Print media is a critical practice grounded in the history of all printed matter and the printed form as a social medium. Students will participate in a comprehensive range of technical and aesthetic approaches centered in a range of strategies including the art work as multiple, digital and cultural production. These issues of critical discourse will challenge traditional definitions of intaglio, lithography, relief, screen-printing, digital printmaking, and laser cutting technology.
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ART 2401 - Introduction to Sculpture
(CA-AAP, LA-AAP)
Fall, Spring, Summer. 4 credits. Student option grading.
Staff.
This course introduces students to artistic practice in three dimensions using a variety of materials and approaches. Problems require the student to address materials in terms of cultural and historical context. Assumes no prior knowledge of sculpture.
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ART 2501 - Drawing: Contemporary Art Practice Through Drawing
Fall. 4 credits. Letter grades only.
Enrollment limited to: BFA students.
Staff.
This course provides students entering the BFA program a gateway to contemporary art practice through drawing. Drawing here is conceived both as a self-sufficient medium and as a tool useful for the conceptual and practical development of ideas in other media. A wide range of technically and conceptually conceived assignments will introduce students to the breadth of contemporary practice and drawing itself.
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ART 2503 - Drawing: Introduction to Drawing
(CA-AAP, LA-AAP)
Fall, Spring, Summer. 4 credits. Student option grading.
Enrollment limited to: non-BFA students only.
Staff.
This foundation drawing course introduces students to a broad range of conceptual and technical approaches. It introduces traditional and nontraditional materials, and covers diverse pictorial strategies and subject matter. A significant component is exposure to art historical precedents. This course also serves as an introduction to critique techniques and to the discipline of maintaining a journal.
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ART 2601 - Photography: Introduction to Photography
(CA-AAP, LA-AAP)
Fall, Spring, Summer. 4 credits. Student option grading.
Staff.
This course explores camera and lens as devices that frame and translate three-dimensional space to a two-dimensional surface. Through assignments and individual investigation, students acquire a deeper understanding of visual perception and photography as medium for personal expression. This course introduces students to photographic processes and assumes no prior knowledge of photography.
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ART 2701 - Digital Media: Introduction to Digital Media
(CA-AAP, LA-AAP)
Fall, Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.
Staff.
This course explores the use of digital technology in contemporary art making. Students approach software programs by researching historical and contemporary art issues, with emphasis on how to differentiate between analog and digital forms. Through the investigation of the history of digital technology students will gain an understanding of digital culture and its correlation to social, aesthetic and theoretical issues. Topics explored include time-based art, network culture, image resolution, computational techniques, virtuality, and interactivity.
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ART 2900 - Shop and Tech
Fall (weeks 1-7). 1 credit. S/U grades only.
Corequisite: ART 2103 and ART 2501 . Enrollment limited to: B.F.A. students. Satisfies B.F.A. Shop & Tech requirement. In order to receive a passing grade of S, the student must spend 2 hours per week per unit on training-related activities, and successfully demonstrate an understanding of both basic machine shop skills and computing skills. The evaluation criteria may include laboratory, computational and machine shop work. Beyond this, grading is based on: participation and attendance, adherence to proper professional standards of machine shop and lab usage and safety and final completion of an evaluative test.
Staff.
This course gives undergraduate B.F.A. students introductory experience in the usage and safe practices of Cornell AAP’s machine fabrication and digital media facilities. At the end of this semester B.F.A. students will be able to apply basic shop and technology knowledge and skills into their classwork and individual creative work.
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ART 2907 - Visual Imaging in the Electronic Age (crosslisted) ARCH 3702 , CS 1620 , ENGRI 1620
(MQR-AAP)
Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.
D. Greenberg.
For description, see ARCH 3702 .
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ART 2999 - Special Topics in Art
Fall, Spring. 1 credit. S/U grades only.
Free elective for B.F.A. students.
Staff.
Topics vary each semester.
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ART 3001 - Rome Studio
(CU-ITL)
Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.
Offered in Rome, Italy.
Staff.
This class will concentrate on the development, through research and material experimentation, of a studio practice informed by historical and social context. Different research and production methodologies will be encouraged to develop a practice that is critical, self-sustaining, and flexible. Specific attention will be paid to implications of transferring artistic practice to Rome, i.e., the way the specificities and generalities of a new geographical setting inform one’s work. Required course for B.F.A. students participating in Rome.
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ART 3003 - New York City Studio
Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.
Offered in New York City.
Staff.
This class will concentrate on the development, through research and material experimentation, of a studio practice informed by historical and social context. Different research and production methodologies will be encouraged to develop a practice that is critical, self-sustaining, and flexible. Students will be encouraged to engage the intellectual and artistic resources available in New York City that relate to the development of their work. Required course for B.F.A. students participating in AAP NYC.
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ART 3005 - [Advanced Practice]
(EC-SAP)
Spring. Not offered: 2020-2021. Next offered: 2022-2023. 6 credits. Letter grades only.
Prerequisite: all 2000-level studios and ART 2103 .
Staff.
This class will concentrate on the development, through research and material experimentation, of a studio practice informed by historical and social context. Different research and production methodologies will be encouraged to develop a practice that is critical, self-sustaining, and flexible. This course is conceived as an introduction to the concentrated studio practice developed further in the following two thesis semesters.
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ART 3006 - Advanced Practice
Spring. 4 credits. Letter grades only.
Prerequisite: all 2000-level studios and ART 2103 .
Staff.
This class will concentrate on the development, through research and material experimentation, of a studio practice informed by historical and social context. Different research and production methodologies will be encouraged to develop a practice that is critical, self-sustaining, and flexible. This course is conceived as an introduction to the concentrated studio practice developed further in the following two thesis semesters.
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ART 3091 - Directed Readings in Art
Fall, Spring. 1-4 credits, variable. Student option grading.
Approved independent study form required. Enrollment limited to: third-year BFA students in good standing or permission of instructor.
Staff.
Independent reading allows a student the opportunity to investigate special interests that are not treated in regularly scheduled courses. The student develops a plan of study to pursue under the supervision of a faculty member.
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ART 3092 - Independent Studio in Art
Fall, Spring. 1-4 credits, variable. Student option grading.
Approved independent study form required. Enrollment limited to: third-year B.F.A. students in good standing or permission of instructor.
Staff.
Independent studio allows a student the opportunity to investigate special interests that are not treated in regularly scheduled courses. The student develops a plan of study to pursue under the supervision of a faculty member.
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ART 3093 - Directed Research in Art
(CU-UGR)
Fall, Spring. 1-4 credits, variable. Student option grading.
Approved independent study form required. Enrollment limited to: third-year B.F.A. students in good standing or permission of instructor.
Staff.
Independent research allows a student the opportunity to investigate special interests that are not treated in regularly scheduled courses. The student develops a plan of study to pursue under the supervision of a faculty member.
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ART 3102 - Contemporary Rome Seminar
(CA-AAP, HA-AAP) (CU-ITL)
Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.
Counts as Theory and Criticism course for BFA students. Offered in Rome, Italy.
Staff.
Introduces students to contemporary art in Rome through studio visits, gallery exhibitions, and museum collections. Lectures by artists, critics, and others. Traces art from idea to realization and explores the gallery and its relationship to artists and to promotion of art, the role of the art critic and museum, and art collecting.
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ART 3103 - New York City Seminar
(CA-AAP, HA-AAP)
Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.
Counts as a Theory and Criticism course for BFA students. Offered in New York City.
Staff.
This seminar involves readings, discussion, writing, trips to museums and galleries, artists’ studios, other field trips, and presentations by leading critics and scholars who present and examine issues of contemporary art in one of the world-class art centers. The seminar is developed to conceptually connect to the studio and art/architecture history course in which students are enrolled.
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ART 3201 - Painting: Spatial Transpositions in Painting
(CA-AAP, LA-AAP)
Fall or Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.
Prerequisite: ART 2201 or permission of instructor.
Staff.
This topical painting course uses traditional and experimental strategies to address contemporary issues in the mediation of spatiality. Spaces addressed include: theoretical and information spaces, virtual and cyberspaces, surveillance and control spaces, filmic and narrative spaces, and image and game spaces. The emphasis of this course will be on articulating critical approaches to these contemporary spaces through their transposition and delivery in the medium of painting.
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ART 3202 - Painting: Painting Intent and Context
(CA-AAP, LA-AAP)
Fall or Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.
Prerequisite: ART 2201 or permission of instructor.
Staff.
Students are encouraged to develop visual applications or interpretations of a chosen subject matter, whether this subject matter is inherently visual or non-visual (e.g., experientially or conceptually manifested outside of a visual frame of reference). Emphasis is placed on experimentation with pictorial languages and identifying an appropriate scale of production and mode of delivery, ranging from two-dimensional picture plane to site-specific installation.
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ART 3203 - Painting: Painting Film
(CA-AAP, LA-AAP)
Fall or Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.
Prerequisite: ART 2201 or permission of instructor.
Staff.
This course investigates the potential of film as a resource for paintings. Through the study of a number of films of various genres we will attempt to discover new ways of thinking about how paintings can function. Topics relevant to both painting and film addressed in this course will include narrative, appropriation, temporality, sequence, montage, framing and scale. Although paintings are derived from a myriad of different sources, this particular investigation of film can act as a metaphor for mining the potential of other disciplines and forms of expression.
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ART 3205 - Painting: Materials and Processes
(CA-AAP, LA-AAP)
Fall or Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.
Prerequisite: ART 2201 .
Staff.
This course is designed to introduce students to a selected historical legacy of material presences and their consequent poetic affect. Class activities include a series of directed painting exercises involving research into the formulation and application of traditional and non-traditional painting materials.
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ART 3304 - [Print Media: Large Format Print Media]
(CA-AAP, LA-AAP)
Fall or Spring. Not offered: 2020-2021. Next offered: 2021-2022. 4 credits. Student option grading.
Prerequisite: ART 2301 or permission of instructor.
Staff.
This course integrates large format digital printing and traditional forms of printmaking to examine their unique qualities, scale and varied applications, enhancing and informing the production and approach to contemporary printmaking. Students will explore this through experimentation with combinations of approaches of constructing images utilizing Adobe Photoshop, experimental and traditional materials and printmaking mediums. Students will further explore these approaches through projects involving scale, resolution, and surface.
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ART 3305 - Print Media: The Hybrid Print
(CA-AAP, LA-AAP)
Fall or Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.
Prerequisite: ART 2301 .
Staff.
Printmaking’s evolving language, a hybrid vocabulary of newly available materials, tools and methods with traditional techniques, is expanding the concept of the printed edition and facilitating new and radical explorations of scale, dimension, content and display. This course encourages students, like many contemporary artists working in print media, to define printmaking in their own terms by stressing traditional and experimental platemaking, digital printing and fabricating, editionable collage and hand-finishing techniques, and strategies for successfully merging these disparate methods into finished prints.
Beyond Cornell, this course offers field trips to the Editions/Artist Book Fair, IPCNY Print Fair, and professional print shops and print collection of the Johnson Museum. Depending on the semester this course may involve a collaborative project with a visiting artist.
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ART 3399 - Print Media: Special Topics
(CA-AAP, LA-AAP)
Fall or Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.
Prerequisite: ART 2301 or permission of instructor.
Staff.
Topics TBA.
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ART 3401 - [Sculpture: Sculptural/Artistic Practice]
(CA-AAP, LA-AAP)
Fall or Spring. Not offered: 2020-2021. Next offered: 2021-2022. 4 credits. Student option grading.
Prerequisite: ART 2401 , or architecture design studio, or permission of instructor.
Staff.
This class will concentrate on the development of a studio practice that is autonomous and based on the artist’s material and intellectual interests. Students will be encouraged to experiment with different research/production methodologies to develop a practice that is self-sustaining and flexible. Sculpture here should be taken in its least restrictive sense to the point where it implies merely an awareness and integration of spatial relations. In this sense, sculpture can imply the use of any artistic medium. Critiques, discussions and student presentations will comprise a large portion of class time. Readings will be assigned according to the needs and interests of the individual students. The class will be receptive to collaborative practice in the realm of production, but also, and most importantly, in the sense of fostering a mutually supportive and intellectually engaged artistic community.
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ART 3404 - Sculpture: Installation
(CA-AAP, LA-AAP)
Fall, Spring, Summer. 4 credits. Student option grading.
Prerequisite: ART 2401 , or architecture design studio, or permission of instructor.
Staff.
Site-specific installations will be mediated through a variety of materials and individual and collaborative research. This course expands an awareness of traditional (welding, metal casting) and non-traditional materials (papermaking, rubber, fabric) though figurative modeling, abstract carving, and three-dimensional form and design.
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ART 3499 - Sculpture: Special Topics
(CA-AAP, LA-AAP)
Fall or Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.
Prerequisite: ART 2401 , or architecture design studio, or permission of instructor.
Staff.
Topics TBA.
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ART 3501 - Drawing: Pictorial Languages
(CA-AAP, LA-AAP)
Fall or Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.
Prerequisite: ART 2503 or permission of instructor.
Staff.
This course explores the capacity of drawing to visualize complex representations, experience and informational systems using a wide range of materials and formats. Students pursue both experimental and more developed individual, serial, and collaborative drawing projects that challenge and question the conventional boundaries of drawing.
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ART 3502 - Drawing: The Body
(CA-AAP, LA-AAP)
Fall or Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.
Prerequisite: ART 2503 or permission of instructor.
Staff.
This course investigates the human body as a pictorial subject. Emphasis is placed on the development of descriptive methodologies reinforced by a study of human surface anatomy and historic/contemporary applications. Relevance to a wide range of visual disciplines including sculpture, photography, digital media in addition to painting and drawing will be explored.
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ART 3599 - Drawing: Special Topics
(CA-AAP, LA-AAP)
Fall or Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.
Prerequisite: ART 2503 or permission of instructor.
Staff.
Topics TBA.
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ART 3601 - Photography: Identity and the Global Lens
(CA-AAP, LA-AAP)
Fall, Spring, Summer. 4 credits. Student option grading.
Prerequisite: ART 2601 or permission of instructor.
Staff.
This course investigates the visual representation of identity in contemporary culture while considering the impact of global perspectives on the understanding and interpretation of self through the lens of race, gender, geography. This studio based course considers visual practice in relation to critical theory using lecture, group critique, and film and video screenings. Image capture will be by medium format camera and film and occasional digital SLR 35 mm camera. Advanced black and white and color negative and print processes will be taught. Medium format cameras are provided on a daily loan basis.
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ART 3604 - Photography: Alternative Photographic Processes - The Composite Image
(CA-AAP, LA-AAP)
Fall, Spring, Summer. 4 credits. Student option grading.
Prerequisite: ART 2601 or permission of instructor.
Staff.
This course explores the composite image generated through various lens-based practices and equipment such as still and video camera, scanner, internet, etc. It is an intensive experimental studio integrating digital strategies of negative production to create images produced with traditional light-sensitive materials. Alternative photographic methods are approached as a printmaking process. Students are encouraged to work outside the camera and beyond the negative edge. The history of photographic print materials from the photogenic drawing of Talbot to the contemporary gelatin silver print will be introduced. Images will be produced using cyanotype, Vandyke brown, gum bichromate, and palladium emulsions.
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ART 3606 - Photography: The Constructed Image
(CA-AAP, LA-AAP)
Fall or Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.
Prerequisite: ART 2201 , ART 2301 , ART 2401 , ART 2503 , ART 2601 , and ART 2701 , or permission of instructor.
Staff.
The Constructed Image is an art studio course that explores the practice of fabricating or constructing the subject of a photograph. The course examines the history of the constructed image within the photographic canon, including conventional studio-based and location photography, along with artistic approaches to image making involving intervention and manipulation of the subject. In direct opposition to the methods of the candid and documentary genres, the constructed image depends on artifice and invention to create or manipulate the subject. This genre makes use of a vast range of techniques including lighting, staging, styling, directing, crafting, scripting, and more. Students will work both collaboratively and independently to produce visual works demonstrating the concepts and techniques learned in class. Topics include: The history and theory of the constructed image; lighting equipment and techniques; large and medium format camera equipment and techniques; materials, equipment, and construction techniques.
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ART 3699 - Photography: Special Topics
(CA-AAP, LA-AAP)
Fall or Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.
Prerequisite: ART 2601 or permission of instructor.
Staff.
Advanced studio course related to photography. Topics vary each semester.
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ART 3704 - Digital Media: Interactive Digital Media
(CA-AAP, LA-AAP)
Fall or Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.
Prerequisite: ART 2701 or permission of instructor.
Staff.
This intermediate studio course is designed to encourage students to integrate computer-aided, time-based media into interactive forms and experiences. The course will challenge students to develop a theoretical understanding of the relationship between traditional ideas of authorship and contemporary ideas of authorship that are distributed, collaborative, and ephemeral. Art will be considered in a social and public context. Students will use digital technologies in order to create interactive projects in the form of web art, sensor/micro-controller aided video/sound installations, network performance, and art for public space. The course encourages creative research in the context of studio production.
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ART 3705 - Digital Media: Art in the Age of Networks
(CA-AAP, LA-AAP)
Fall or Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.
Prerequisite: ART 2701 or permission of instructor.
Staff.
This project-centered studio course is designed to introduce the web as a medium for critical, aesthetic, and public art practice. Recent digital practices such as net art, generative art, telematic art, interactive environments, and network performance have led artists to see the web and related technologies as a new space for understanding art and re-thinking the role of the artist in society. By becoming familiar with these practices, and through independent research and project production, this course will ask students to challenge the notion of object-based art and approach art as an interventionist activity that creates sites of critical overlap between art, technology, and society.
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ART 3707 - Digital Media: Digital Video and Sound
(CA-AAP, LA-AAP)
Fall or Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.
Prerequisite: ART 2701 or permission of instructor.
Staff.
This studio course introduces students to digital video as a critical and cultural form. The course provides both an in-depth introduction to the techniques, software, structure of video and sound, and a historical overview of its use by artists. The course includes current artistic practices that use video on the web, as social media, in the gallery and in public space. Skills learned include how to capture stills, create stop motion animation, record sound/video, edit, and prepare media for installation. This course concentrates on the experimental use of video as installation combining the use of video/sound, tangible materials, and physical space.
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ART 3708 - Digital Media: Hybrid Media and Global Arts Practices
(CA-AAP, LA-AAP)
Fall or Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.
Prerequisite: ART 2701 or permission of instructor.
Staff.
This studio investigates moving image and sound in contemporary global art. Converging practices in digital video, animation, performance, activism and theory are at the center of these new and blended forms. Global contemporary art has dislocated the moving image and sound from the theater to spaces of global biennials, international museums and galleries and in political arenas. All of these sources will be investigated and used as creative inspiration. Projects will be realized for a variety of exhibition possibilities including contemporary art spaces, public spaces and the internet. Students will conceptually and technically investigate hybrid media in relationship to global culture and technology. Students will use software including Final Cut Pro and others to create hybrid media forms.
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ART 3799 - Digital Media: Special Topics
(CA-AAP, LA-AAP)
Fall or Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.
Prerequisite: ART 2701 or permission of instructor.
Staff.
Topics TBA.
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ART 3803 - Art History: Italian Cinema
(CA-AAP, LA-AAP) (CU-ITL)
Fall, Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.
Counts as modern art history for BFA students. Offered in Rome, Italy. Co-meets with ARCH 3117 .
Staff.
This course examines the cinematic representation of Italy with particular emphasis to the use of settings and space. We will explore how the visions of urban and rural spaces reflect the evolving cultural, social and political fabric of a nation in a period of rapid and often traumatic historical change. The course will feature screening of films set in several Italian locations, from Rome to Milan, from Naples to Venice, from Sicily to the Apennines, and represent different moments of Italian contemporary history. We will take advantage of the unique opportunity to study this cinema while residing in Rome and traveling in Italy, through the experience of the real settings that have figured so prominently in Italian cinema. Each session consists of an in-class lecture and a film screening. The course will also include one or two guest lecturers each semester.
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ART 3805 - Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Metropolitan Studies
(CA-AAP, LA-AAP)
Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.
Counts as modern art history for BFA students. Offered in New York City.
Staff.
This course introduces students to the key concepts in art and urbanism in the 19th-21st centuries, ranging from politics to social changes, technology to representation, as major factors and issues that have been influencing in the past and still continue to shape a contemporary Metropolis. Focusing on representation of the city in different media and multi-disciplinary approach to urban theory, with New York as a case study, the class will be structured around several field trips, weekly lectures followed by film excerpts screenings, individual student presentations, and discussions of the assigned readings.
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ART 3874 - [Indigenous Spaces and Materiality] (crosslisted) ANTHR 4774 , ARTH 4774
Fall. Not offered: 2020-2021. Next offered: 2022-2023. 4 credits. Letter grades only.
Co-meets with ANTHR 7774 /ARTH 6774 .
J. Rickard.
For description, see ARTH 4774 .
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ART 3902 - International Professional Practice/Internship
(CU-ITL)
Fall. 1 credit. S/U grades only.
Corequisite: ART 3102 . Enrollment limited to: BFA students only. Counts as free elective credit for BFA students. Offered in Rome, Italy.
Staff.
Students gain practical professional experience in international cultural settings that include museums, galleries, artist studios, and public art programs. Students may work on curatorial projects, assist an artist in the studio, assist with daily gallery operation, participate in museum management, and collaborate on the daily activities of a contemporary art specialist. Students meet weekly with academic instructor and 6-8 hours per week internship placement.
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ART 3903 - NYC Professional Practice
Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.
Corequisite: ART 3003 , ART 3103 , and ART 3805 . Enrollment limited to: BFA students with an approved professional placement. Counts as free elective credit for BFA students. Offered in New York City.
Staff.
This course will investigate the existing formats, guidelines and limitations that artists negotiate within the context of art practice. This will be accomplished through image presentations, selected readings, discussions, field trips, and visiting lecturers. The guest visitors may include a selection of: artist(s), gallery director, non-profit director or curator, museum curator, art critic, art lawyer, art fabricator, grant spokesperson, and others. Throughout the course, students will be engaging in various forms of statement writing as well as presentations on their work. Student’s work may be discussed as it is relative to the presentations, and writing assignments. This course requires a separate internship component and will serve as a platform for discussion of the internship experience.
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ART 4001 - Thesis I
(CU-UGR)
Fall, Spring. 6 credits. Letter grades only.
Prerequisite: all 3000-level studios and ART 3005 . Corequisite: ART 4100 .
Staff.
This course continues the independent studio research and production of the Advanced Practice course to prepare students for ART 4002: Thesis II. During Thesis I, students begin to research, develop, and clarify their thesis proposals through dialogues, readings, and critiques with members of the Core Thesis Faculty. Emphasis is on deepening awareness of the intention and reading of the work and situating individual interests within and against historical, theoretical, and conceptual contexts.
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ART 4002 - Thesis II
(CU-UGR)
Fall, Spring. 6 credits. Letter grades only.
Prerequisite: all 3000-level studios, ART 4100 , and ART 4001 .
Staff.
This course is the final B.F.A. studio semester in which students develop and present an independent body of work that may take the form of an exhibition or some other project. Students will work with members of the Core Thesis Faculty to define and refine the positions formulated within each work and to foster the ability to speak about one’s own work as well as the work of others. Emphasis is placed on developing strategies of productive self-criticality to inform their work both during and beyond the thesis semester.
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ART 4003 - [Thesis I]
Fall, Spring. Not offered: 2020-2021. Next offered: 2021-2022. 4 credits. Letter grades only.
Prerequisite: ART 3006 .
Staff.
This course continues the independent studio research and production of the Advanced Practice course to prepare students for ART 4004 - [Thesis II] . During Thesis I, students begin to research, develop, and clarify their thesis proposals through dialogues, readings, and critiques with members of the Core Thesis Faculty. Emphasis is on deepening awareness of the intention and reading of the work and situating individual interests within and against historical, theoretical, and conceptual contexts.
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ART 4004 - [Thesis II]
Fall, Spring. Not offered: 2020-2021. Next offered: 2021-2022. 4 credits. Letter grades only.
Prerequisite: all advanced 3000-level studios, ART 3006 , and ART 4003 .
Staff.
This course is the final B.F.A. studio semester in which students develop and present an independent body of work that may take the form of an exhibition or some other project. Students will work with members of the Core Thesis Faculty to define and refine the positions formulated within each work and to foster the ability to speak about one’s own work as well as the work of others. Emphasis is placed on developing strategies of productive self-criticality to inform their work both during and beyond the thesis semester.
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ART 4100 - Senior Seminar
Fall. 4 credits. Letter grades only.
Prerequisite: all required 3000-level ART studios. Corequisite: ART 4001 .
Staff.
This advanced seminar is designed to accompany the first semester of Thesis studio. The class fosters investigation of artistic intentionality and its relation to visual expression and its discursive treatment. It begins with assignments structured to identify the conceptual, social, historical, and formal considerations relevant to each student’s artistic practice. Once identified, these become the basis for rigorous research and consideration.This undertaking is designed to support advanced thesis projects and art practices going forward.
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ART 5092 - Graduate Independent Studio in Art
(EC-SAP)
Fall, Spring, Summer. 1-4 credits, variable. Student option grading (no audit).
Permission of department required. Enrollment limited to: graduate students.
Staff.
Independent studio allows a student the opportunity to investigate special interests that are sometimes not treated in regularly scheduled courses. The student develops a plan of study to pursue under the supervision of an Art faculty member.
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ART 6000 - Graduate Seminar: Contemporary Theory and Art
Fall, Spring, Summer. 3 credits. Student option grading.
Enrollment limited to: MFA students. Repeat up to four times for credit.
Staff.
Seminar exploring selected writings on current issues in the visual arts. Designed to introduce graduate students to several approaches to critical inquiry and analysis of contemporary artistic practice. Topics vary but may include related issues in areas such as critical theory, identity politics, institutional frames, sustainability, urbanization, and globalization.
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ART 7001 - Graduate Studio I
Fall. 9 credits. Student option grading.
Enrollment limited to and required for: first year MFA students.
Staff.
Course instructor is the chair of student’s Special Committee. Students are responsible, under faculty direction, for planning their own projects and selecting the media in which they work. All members of the faculty are available for individual consultation.
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ART 7002 - Graduate Studio II
Spring. 9 credits. Student option grading.
Enrollment limited to and required for: first year MFA students.
Staff.
Course instructor is the chair of student’s Special Committee. Students are responsible, under faculty direction, for planning their own projects and selecting the media in which they work. All members of the faculty are available for individual consultation.
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ART 8001 - Graduate Studio III
Fall. 9 credits. Student option grading.
Enrollment limited to and required for: second year MFA students.
Staff.
Course instructor is the chair of student’s Special Committee. Students are responsible, under faculty direction, for planning their own projects and selecting the media in which they work. All members of the faculty are available for individual consultation.
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ART 8002 - Graduate Studio IV
Spring. 9 credits. Student option grading.
Enrollment limited to and required for: second year MFA students.
Staff.
Course instructor is the chair of student’s Special Committee. Students are responsible, under faculty direction, for planning their own projects and selecting the media in which they work. All members of the faculty are available for individual consultation.
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ARTH 1100 - Art Histories: An Introduction (crosslisted) SHUM 1100
(CA-AS, ALC-AS, HST-AS)
Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.
C. Robinson.
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 staff and faculty of the Herbert Johnson Museum of Art, its primary aim is to familiarize students with the most significant geographical areas, epochs and works of art, as well as with methods employed in their study and analysis. The course will be organized around a changing selection of themes central to the history of art. The theme for fall 2020 is “Ornament,” departing from a broad understanding of just what constitutes a work of art (in addition to painting, sculpture, and architecture, we will consider a range of objects of material culture, from ceramics to metalwork to the human body itself), paying particular attention to intersections of aesthetics and utility, and the attitudes of various cultures, from antiquity to the present, toward adornment and its interpretation.
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ARTH 1132 - FWS: Seeing, Reading, and Writing the Alhambra
Fall. 3 credits. Letter grades only.
First-Year Writing Seminar.
C. Robinson.
This course is centered on Granada’s Alhambra, built, for the most part, during the middle decades of the 14th century A.D. Both the most complete surviving medieval Islamic palace and the most popular tourist destination in Spain, throughout the more-than-six centuries of its existence, the Alhambra has inspired admiration and interpretation, this latter being influenced by intellectual trends and cultural currents as varied as Romanticism, positivism, Orientalism, post-structuralism, post-colonial theory and literature for tourists it was even the setting for Washington Irvving’s famed Tales of the Alhambra. In this class students will learn to view and to write about the Alhambra through the lenses offered by these various movements and currents, as well as through the eyes of its contemporary audience, the 14th-century poets, courtiers, kings, mystics and the occasional Christian ally who frequented its beautifully ornamented halls and patios.
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ARTH 1171 - FWS: Nineteenth Century Europe in Twelve Works of Art
Fall. 3 credits. Letter grades only.
First-Year Writing Seminar.
A. Menevse.
This course follows the traces of the social, aesthetic, political, and economic transformations that made the nineteenth century “The Age of Revolutions” on the canvases of Courbet, Cassatt, and Ensor, the printing plates of Daumier, Toulouse-Lautrec and Vallotton, on the streets of Haussmann’s new Paris and in the spectacular pavilions of the World Expositions. Each week we focus on a major theme—mass culture, imperialism, orientalism, technologies of reproduction, fashion, capitalism, gender, urbanization, environmentalism, revolutionary struggles, and utopian imaginations—each unpacking one aspect of the complex legacy of the European 19th century. Though the course primarily follows the artistic and political developments in France, we will also discuss artworks and events from Belgium, Britain, and Germany and their political and social contexts.
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ARTH 1704 - Statues and Public Life (crosslisted) CLASS 1704
(HB) (CA-AS, ALC-AS) (CU-CEL)
Fall. 3 credits. Student option grading.
V. Platt.
For description, see CLASS 1704 .
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ARTH 2000 - Introduction to Visual Studies (crosslisted) AMST 2000 , COML 2000 , VISST 2000
(LA-AS, ALC-AS, ETM-AS)
Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.
Requirement for Visual Studies minor.
Staff.
For description, see VISST 2000 .
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ARTH 2101 - Indigenous Ingenuities as Living Networks (crosslisted) AIIS 2100 , AMST 2108
(HB) (CA-AS, ALC-AS) (CU-UGR)
Spring. 3 credits. Letter grades only.
Staff.
For description and learning outcomes, see AIIS 2100 .
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ARTH 2200 - [Introduction to the Classical World in 24 Objects] (crosslisted) ARKEO 2700 , CLASS 2700
(HB) (HA-AS, ALC-AS)
Spring. Not offered: 2020-2021. Next offered: 2021-2022. 4 credits. Student option grading.
V. Platt.
Did the Greeks really paint their marble statues? Did the Romans make wax death masks? Should the British Museum return the Parthenon Marbles to Greece? Come and explore all these questions and more in “An Introduction to the Ancient World in 24 Objects”. Each class will focus on a single artefact, showing how it is exemplary of key trends and historical moments in Greek and Roman culture, from the temples of ancient Athens to the necropoleis of Roman Egypt and the rainy outposts of Hadrian’s Wall. In addition to the history of Greco-Roman art in antiquity, we will explore the influence of Classical art on later Western culture, paying special attention to its complex (and often problematic) political ramifications. While focusing on major monuments from Classical antiquity in class, we will also examine Cornell’s collection of plaster casts, ancient objects in the Johnson Museum, and the Greek and Roman collections in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
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ARTH 2221 - [Archaeology of Roman Private Life] (crosslisted) ARKEO 2743 , CLASS 2743
(HB) (CA-AS, ALC-AS)
Spring. Not offered: 2020-2021. Next offered: 2021-2022. 3 credits. Student option grading.
A. Alexandridis.
For description, see CLASS 2743 .
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ARTH 2255 - [Ecocriticism and Visual Culture]
(GB) (HA-AS, ALC-AS)
Fall. Not offered: 2020-2021. Next offered: 2022-2023. 3 credits. Letter grades only.
J. Rickard.
This course attempts to reconcile the split between art and science through a pluralistic perspective of environmental artistic processes. What is the role of visual culture in sustainable development? Cataclysmic change in the world has forced a turn in environmental art from isolated practices to having a fundamental role in shaping the transformation of our relationships to nature. Informed by Western and Indigenous philosophies, trace how artists enact ecological micro-utopias from earth art to ecological art as a catalyst for social change.
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ARTH 2355 - Introduction to Medieval Art and Culture (crosslisted) MEDVL 2355
(HB) (CA-AS, ALC-AS, HST-AS)
Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.
B. Anderson, C. Robinson.
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. The approach is thematic but chronologically grounded; attention is also given to cultural interaction in the Mediterranean basin.
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ARTH 2400 - [Introduction to Renaissance and Baroque Art and Society] (crosslisted) VISST 2645
(HB) (HA-AS, ALC-AS)
Fall. Not offered: 2020-2021. Next offered: 2021-2022. 4 credits. Student option grading.
C. Lazzaro.
This course examines some of the major works of European artists from 1400 to 1750, a period with huge changes in religion, political systems, and knowledge of the world. We learn chronological and geographical differences in artistic aims and styles, and explore various goals, among them representing the human body and emotions, telling stories, serving religious practices through visual images, and fashioning identities of different social classes. With the rediscovery of classical antiquity, both intellectuals and artists sought ways to synthesize classical and Christian. Tales of mythological gods could also convey philosophical ideas, gender relations, and concerns of love and lust. Artists include Jan van Eyck, Botticelli, Dürer, Bosch, Leonardo, Michelangelo, Caravaggio, Velazquez, Rembrandt, and Vermeer, among many others.
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ARTH 2550 - Introduction to Latin American Art (crosslisted) LATA 2050 , VISST 2550
(GHB) (CA-AS, ALC-AS)
Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading (no audit).
A. Cohen-Aponte.
This course is designed to introduce students to Latin American art from the pre-Columbian period to the present. It will cover the arts of ancient civilizations including the Olmec, Maya, Aztec, Moche, and Inca, as well as the colonial, modern, and contemporary arts of Latin America and the Latino/a diaspora. Major themes include the relationship between art and religion, innovations and transformations in Latin American art across time, art and identity, as well as Indigenous and Afro-Latin American contributions to the visual arts. This course examines the societal relevance of images across Latin American cultures by paying close attention to the historical and political contexts in which they were created. Course readings are drawn from the disciplines of art history, anthropology, and history, along with theoretical perspectives on colonialism, postcolonialism, identity, race, and ethnicity.
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ARTH 2600 - Introduction to Modern Western Art: Materials, Media, and the End of Masterpieces
(CA-AS, ALC-AS)
Fall, Summer (offered on demand). 4 credits. Student option grading.
Fall, K. Presutti; Summer, I. Dadi.
This course offers a broad introduction to some of the artistic practices that have come to be known as “modern” in Europe and the United States. Beginning with the upheavals of the French Revolution and carrying through to the turmoil of two world wars, we will survey the role of both fine art and visual culture in a period of great political, social, and technological change. The very definition of art was revolutionized in this moment, as an emphasis on materials and experiments with new media like photography and cinema took precedence over the production of highly-skilled masterpieces. Particular attention will be given to exchanges between western representation and that of other cultures. Topics covered include revolutionary propaganda; romantic unreason; caricature and political critique; the changing pace of the modern city; architecture in the machine age; the place of women in modernity; and the impact of new technology on spectatorship. Students should leave the course with increased familiarity with key art movements in the modern era and the skills to analyze and appreciate art and visual culture from any period.
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ARTH 2710 - [Roman Wall Painting] (crosslisted) ARKEO 2710 , CLASS 2710
(HB) (CA-AS, ALC-AS)
Spring. Not offered: 2020-2021. Next offered: 2021-2022. 3 credits. Student option grading.
V. Platt.
For description, see CLASS 2710 .
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ARTH 2711 - Archaeology of the Roman World: Italy and the West (crosslisted) ARKEO 2711 , CLASS 2711 , SHUM 2711
(HB) (HA-AS, HST-AS)
Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.
A. Van Oyen.
For description, see CLASS 2711 .
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ARTH 2800 - Introduction to the Arts of China (crosslisted) ARKEO 2800 , ASIAN 2288 , SHUM 2800
(GHB) (LA-AS, ALC-AS, HST-AS)
Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading (no audit).
A. Pan.
This course offers a survey of the art and culture of China from the Neolithic period to the twenty-first century to students who have no previous background in Chinese studies. The course begins with an inquiry into the meaning of national boundaries and the controversial definition of the Han Chinese people, which will help us understand and define the scope of Chinese culture. Pre-dynastic (or prehistoric) Chinese culture will be presented based both on legends about the origins of the Chinese and on scientifically excavated artifacts. Art of the dynastic periods will be presented in light of contemporaneous social, political, geographical, philosophical and religious contexts. This course emphasizes hands-on experience using the Chinese art collection at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art for teaching and assignments. In addition to regular sections conducted in the museum, students are strongly encouraged to visit the museum often to appreciate and study artworks directly.
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ARTH 2805 - [Introduction to Asian Art: Material Worlds] (crosslisted) ASIAN 2285 , VISST 2805
(GHB) (CA-AS, ALC-AS) (EC-SAP, EC-SEAP)
Fall. Not offered: 2020-2021. Next offered: 2021-2022. 4 credits. Student option grading (no audit).
K. McGowan, A. Pan.
Trade in and to Asia proved to be a key force in creating our modern “globalized” world. The Indian Ocean and the China Seas converged on Southeast Asia, where a cosmopolitan array of ships from every shore plied their trade, set sail, and returned with the monsoon winds. People, goods, and ideas also traveled on camelback across the undulating contours of the Gobi Desert, connecting India, the Near East and Central Asia with China, Korea, and Japan. This course introduces students to the raw ingredients of things in motion, poised interactively in time and space, as material worlds collide. Wood, bamboo, bronze, clay, earthenware, ink, spices, textiles and tea - students will navigate sites of encounter at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum from pre modern to the present.
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ARTH 3000 - [Everyday Aesthetics] (crosslisted) VISST 3000
(HB) (CA-AS)
Fall. Not offered: 2020-2021. Next offered: 2021-2022. 4 credits. Student option grading.
A. Moisey.
For description, see VISST 3000 .
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ARTH 3001 - [Documentary Art] (crosslisted) VISST 3001
(HB) (LA-AS, ALC-AS, HST-AS)
Fall. Not offered: 2020-2021. Next offered: 2021-2022. 4 credits. Student option grading.
A. Moisey.
For description, see VISST 3001 .
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ARTH 3100 - History of Photography
(LA-AS, ALC-AS, HST-AS)
Fall. 4 credits. Student option grading.
A. Moisey.
How did photography become the world’s most dominant kind of visual representation? This course investigates photography’s scientific origins and complex relations to painting, portraiture, urban life, war, anthropology, exploration and travel, and labor and industry. By the 20th century we find photography enriched new developments that include its use as a modernist and experimental art form, in social documentary and photojournalism, in propaganda, in advertising and fashion, and its centrality in the practice of conceptual art, postmodernism, and the art and surveillance of the digital age.
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ARTH 3225 - [Archaic and Classical Greece] (crosslisted) ARKEO 3225 , CLASS 3735
(HB) (CA-AS, ALC-AS)
Spring. Not offered: 2020-2021. Next offered: 2022-2023. 4 credits. Student option grading.
A. Alexandridis.
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 beyond, while simultaneously looking at specific local traditions. Only within this complex “glocal” frame will it become clear what is unique about Greek art.
In surveying major genres such as architecture, ceramics, sculpture and painting we will also investigate the question of whether and how changing resources and modes of production, various political systems (such as democracy or monarchy) and situations (war, colonization, trade), gender, or theories of representation had an impact on the art of their time. Some of the particular themes to be discussed are: the role of the Near East for the development of Greek visual culture; city planning; images in public and private life; visualizing the human body and the individuum; Greek art in contact zones from the Black Sea to Southern Italy and Sicily; “foreign” art in Greece; the concept of art; reception of Greek art in modern times.
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ARTH 3226 - [Art of Late Antiquity] (crosslisted) ARKEO 3226 , CLASS 3746 , MEDVL 3226 , NES 3226 , RELST 3226 , VISST 3226
(HB) (LA-AS)
Fall. Not offered: 2020-2021. Next offered: 2022-2023. 4 credits. Student option grading.
Co-meets with ARKEO 6226 /ARTH 6226 .
B. Anderson.
A survey of the art and architecture of the later Roman Empire, from the reign of Trajan to the reign of Justinian I. Topics to be considered include: the impact of Christianity on the functions and appearance of art and the emergence of distinctly Christian architectural types; the concepts of “classicism” and “abstraction” and their utility in understanding stylistic change in late antiquity; and the development of monumental vaulted architecture from the Markets of Trajan to the Hagia Sophia.
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ARTH 3230 - [Iconography of Greek Myth] (crosslisted) ARKEO 3130 , CLASS 3727
(HB) (HA-AS, ALC-AS)
Spring. Not offered: 2020-2021. Next offered: 2022-2023. 4 credits. Student option grading.
A. Alexandridis.
Myths are traditional tales. Their authority becomes apparent in that they were constantly adapted to changing social, political, cultural, etc. conditions. Although this seems to be a widely accepted definition so far, it is deeply influenced by Greek tradition. Not only is the term mythos (word, tale) Greek, but the ubiquity of Greek gods, heroes, and their deeds in ancient literature and material culture has given myths an importance they might not have had in other cultures. This class will give an overview of the most important Greek myths and mythological figures as depicted in Greek and Roman times. The chronological frame will range from the seventh century bc to the third century ad. We will discuss the iconography of the Olympian gods and their escorts; of myths such as the loves of the gods; the battles between the Olympian Gods and the Giants, between Greeks and Amazons as well as between Lapiths and Centaurs; the Trojan War; the adventures of Odysseus; the heroic deeds of Heracles, Theseus and Perseus among others. By analyzing where and when mythological images were on display it will become clear how myths were adapted to their specific context as well as why certain myths were more often depicted or more popular than others.
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ARTH 3255 - [The Byzantine Empire: Culture and Society] (crosslisted) CLASS 3655 , MEDVL 3255 , NES 3255
Fall. Not offered: 2020-2021. Next offered: 2021-2022. 4 credits. Student option grading.
B. Anderson.
An introduction to the art, history, and literature of the Byzantine Empire, its neighbors, and successors, ca. 500-1500.
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ARTH 3440 - [Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael, and their World] (crosslisted) VISST 3443
(HB) (HA-AS, ALC-AS, HST-AS)
Spring. Not offered: 2020-2021. Next offered: 2021-2022. 4 credits. Student option grading.
C. Lazzaro.
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 patrons and created a novel visual language with parallels to his poetry, and in his later years, profoundly spiritual images. Raphael, the consummate court artist, antiquarian, and archaeologist, produced a new classical style. Leonardo and Michelangelo pioneered new approaches to the study and representation of the human body. They deployed wit and humor and reinvented the grotesque from ancient art, and all influenced the proliferation of erotic art. Biographies presented them as geniuses, leading the Florentine sculptor Cellini to model himself in his autobiography on a larger-than-life Michelangelo. Florentine painters and sculptors grappled with Michelangelo’s enormous inventiveness. We will also examine prints in the Johnson Museum after Michelangelo and Raphael, and consider recent attributions of new discoveries to them.
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