History of Art|

First-Year Writing Seminars:

Please consult John S. Knight Institute for additional information.

• ARTH 1173 - FWS: Portraiture

Courses:

• ARTH 1100 - Art Histories: An Introduction (crosslisted)
• ARTH 1704 - [Statues and Public Life] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 2000 - Introduction to Visual Studies (crosslisted)
• ARTH 2200 - [Introduction to the Classical World in 24 Objects] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 2221 - [Archaeology of Roman Private Life] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 2255 - [Ecocriticism and Visual Culture]
• ARTH 2355 - [Introduction to Medieval Art and Culture] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 2400 - Introduction to Early Modern Art: Cosmopolitanism and Empire (crosslisted)
• ARTH 2500 - Introduction to the History of Photography (crosslisted)
• ARTH 2550 - Introduction to Latin American Art (crosslisted)
• ARTH 2600 - Introduction to Modern Western Art: Materials, Media, and the End of Masterpieces
• ARTH 2710 - [Roman Wall Painting] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 2800 - Introduction to the Arts of China (crosslisted)
• ARTH 2805 - Introduction to Asian Art: Material Worlds (crosslisted)
• ARTH 3000 - [Everyday Aesthetics] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 3001 - [Documentary Art] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 3111 - Making Photography Matter: A Studio Course
• ARTH 3210 - [Archaeology of the City of Rome] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 3225 - [Archaic and Classical Greece] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 3226 - [Art of Late Antiquity] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 3250 - [Introduction to Dendrochronology] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 3255 - [The Byzantine Empire: Culture and Society] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 3300 - Romanesque and Early Gothic Art and Architecture: Europe and the Mediterranean, 1000-1150 A.D. (crosslisted)
• ARTH 3505 - [Blaxploitation Film and Photography] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 3506 - [Slavery and Visual Culture] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 3535 - [New German Cinema] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 3550 - Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art (crosslisted)
• ARTH 3565 - [Art and Architecture of Colonial Latin America] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 3566 - [Art and Architecture of the Pre-Columbian Americas] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 3590 - [Heritage, History, and Identity in Cambodia] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 3600 - [Contemporary Art: 1960-Present] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 3611 - [Art of South Asia 1200-Present] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 3620 - After Nature: Art and Environmental Imagination (crosslisted)
• ARTH 3625 - [Paris, Capital of Modernity?] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 3650 - [History and Theory of Digital Art] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 3651 - [Women in New Media Art] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 3672 - [The Art of the Historical Avant-Garde] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 3741 - Greco-Roman Art from Alexander to Augustus (c.350 BC - AD 20) (crosslisted)
• ARTH 3755 - Humanities Scholars Research Methods (crosslisted)
• ARTH 3820 - [Introduction to the Arts of Japan] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 3830 - [Bollywood and Beyond: South Asian Cinema] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 3850 - [The Arts of Southeast Asia] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 6210 - [Archaeology of the City of Rome] (crosslisted)

Tutorials:

Tutorials at the 3000, 4000, and 6000 level with preference given to majors and graduate students.  Tutorials are reading and discussion intensive courses with limited enrollment.

• ARTH 4545 - The Photobook
• ARTH 4852 - [Shadowplay: Asian Art and Performance] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 6545 - The Photobook
• ARTH 6852 - [Shadowplay: Asian Art and Performance] (crosslisted)

Seminars:

Seminars at the 4000 to 6000 level are open to juniors and seniors, majors, and graduate students unless otherwise stated. All seminars involve the writing and presentation of research papers. Enrollment is limited to 15 students. Students may repeat courses that cover a different topic each semester.

• ARTH 4035 - Cornell’s Collection of Greek and Roman Art (crosslisted)
• ARTH 4101 - Proseminar: Introduction to Methods (crosslisted)
• ARTH 4110 - Curatorial Practice as Entanglements
• ARTH 4151 - Topics in Media Arts (crosslisted)
• ARTH 4153 - Topics in Feminist Media Arts (crosslisted)
• ARTH 4155 - Topics in Latin American Art (crosslisted)
• ARTH 4160 - [Topics in Colonial Encounters] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 4165 - [Visual Encounters in the Early Modern World] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 4166 - Colonial Connectivities: Curating the Arts of the Spanish Americas (crosslisted)
• ARTH 4171 - [19th Century Art and Culture]
• ARTH 4233 - [Greek and Roman Art and Archaeology] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 4305 - [Looking for Love: Visual and Literary Cultures of Love in the Medieval Mediterranean, 1100 - 1400 AD] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 4310 - Methods in Medieval (crosslisted)
• ARTH 4320 - Tales of the Alhambra and Lalla Rookh: Case Studies in Orientalism (crosslisted)
• ARTH 4351 - [Problems in Byzantine Art] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 4353 - [Sardis, A City at the Crossroads] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 4354 - [Byzantine Archaeology] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 4460 - Fashion in Early Modern Europe
• ARTH 4465 - [Early Modern Materialities, 1400-1700]
• ARTH 4520 - Reading Race Early Modern Art
• ARTH 4540 - [Film History for Art Historians]
• ARTH 4556 - [Decolonial Poetics and Aesthetics: Arts of Resistance in the Americas] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 4621 - [Art and Empire in Britain and France]
• ARTH 4625 - Liquidities: Seascapes in Art and as History
• ARTH 4630 - [Museum Histories]
• ARTH 4684 - The Labor of Images: Encountering the Collective in Visual Cultures (crosslisted)
• ARTH 4690 - Comparative Modernities (crosslisted)
• ARTH 4691 - [Art and Globalization] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 4695 - [Studies in Global Modern Art]
• ARTH 4716 - [Classicism and Contemporary Art] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 4720 - [Curating the British Empire] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 4754 - [Themes in Mediterranean Archaeology] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 4771 - [Indigenous Art, Film, and New Media: Anti-Colonial Strategies] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 4774 - [Indigenous Spaces and Materiality] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 4816 - Modern Chinese Art (crosslisted)
• ARTH 4820 - [Art in Zen and Zen in Art] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 4822 - Objects, Rituals, and Tea (crosslisted)
• ARTH 4851 - [Performing Objects, Collecting Cultures] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 4854 - [Water: Art and Politics in Southeast Asia] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 4855 - Threads of Consequence: Textiles in South and Southeast Asia (crosslisted)
• ARTH 4856 - [Producing Cloth Cultures] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 4858 - [Dancing the Stone: Body, Memory, and Architecture] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 4991 - Independent Study
• ARTH 4992 - Independent Study
• ARTH 4998 - Honors Work I
• ARTH 4999 - Honors Work II
• ARTH 5991 - Supervised Reading
• ARTH 5992 - Supervised Reading
• ARTH 5993 - Supervised Study
• ARTH 5994 - Supervised Study
• ARTH 6000 - [Graduate Research Methods in Art History]
• ARTH 6010 - Curatorial Practice as Entanglements
• ARTH 6015 - Photography and the Archive (crosslisted)
• ARTH 6035 - Cornell’s Collection of Greek and Roman Art (crosslisted)
• ARTH 6060 - [Visual Ideology] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 6101 - Proseminar: Introduction to Methods
• ARTH 6111 - Making Photography Matter: A Studio Course
• ARTH 6133 - Visual Culture During the Enlightenment and the Age of Revolutions in the Atlantic World (crosslisted)
• ARTH 6151 - Topics in Media Arts (crosslisted)
• ARTH 6153 - Topics in Feminist Media Arts (crosslisted)
• ARTH 6154 - [Feminism, Post-Feminism, and Cyberfeminism] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 6155 - Topics in Latin American Art (crosslisted)
• ARTH 6160 - [Topics in Colonial Encounters] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 6165 - [Visual Encounters in the Early Modern World] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 6166 - Colonial Connectivities: Curating the Arts of the Spanish Americas (crosslisted)
• ARTH 6190 - Comparative Modernities
• ARTH 6225 - [Archaic and Classical Greece]
• ARTH 6233 - [Greek and Roman Art and Archaeology] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 6300 - Romanesque and Early Gothic Art and Architecture: Europe and the Mediterranean, 1000-1150 A.D. (crosslisted)
• ARTH 6305 - [Looking for Love: Visual and Literary Cultures of Love in the Medieval Mediterranean, 1100-1400 AD] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 6310 - Methods in Medieval (crosslisted)
• ARTH 6320 - Tales of the Alhambra and Lalla Rookh: Case Studies in Orientalism (crosslisted)
• ARTH 6351 - [Problems in Byzantine Art] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 6353 - [Sardis, A City at the Crossroads] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 6354 - [Byzantine Archaeology] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 6465 - [Early Modern Materialities, 1400-1700]
• ARTH 6510 - [Contemporary Aesthetic Theory and its Discontents] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 6520 - Reading Race Early Modern Art
• ARTH 6540 - [Film History for Art Historians]
• ARTH 6545 - The Photobook
• ARTH 6550 - Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art
• ARTH 6563 - [Art and Architecture of Colonial Latin America]
• ARTH 6566 - [Art and Architecture of the Pre-Columbian Americas] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 6556 - [Decolonial Poetics and Aesthetics: Arts of Resistance in the Americas] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 6560 - Aesthetic Theory: The End of Art (crosslisted)
• ARTH 6595 - [Heritage, History, and Identity in Cambodia] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 6611 - [Art of South Asia, 1200 - Present]
• ARTH 6621 - [Art and Empire in Britain and France]
• ARTH 6622 - Liquidities: Seascapes in Art and as History
• ARTH 6624 - After Nature: Art and Environmental Imagination
• ARTH 6625 - [Paris, Capital of Modernity?]
• ARTH 6630 - [Museum Histories]
• ARTH 6653 - [History and Theory of Digital Art]
• ARTH 6684 - The Labor of Images: Encountering the Collective in Visual Cultures (crosslisted)
• ARTH 6691 - [Art and Globalization]
• ARTH 6695 - [Studies in Global Modern Art]
• ARTH 6716 - [Classicism and Contemporary Art] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 6720 - [Curating the British Empire] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 6754 - [Themes in Mediterranean Archaeology] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 6771 - [Indigenous Art, Film, and New Media: Anti-Colonial Strategies] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 6774 - [Indigenous Spaces and Materiality] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 6780 - Persecution and the Art of Writing (crosslisted)
• ARTH 6816 - Modern Chinese Art (crosslisted)
• ARTH 6820 - [Art in Zen and Zen in Art] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 6830 - [Bollywood and Beyond: South Asian Cinema] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 6840 - [Contemporary Taiwanese Art] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 6850 - [The Arts of Southeast Asia] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 6851 - [Performing Objects, Collecting Cultures] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 6852 - [Shadowplay: Asian Art and Performance] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 6854 - [Water: Art and Politics in Southeast Asia] (crosslisted)
• ARTH 6855 - Threads of Consequence: Textiles in South and Southeast Asia (crosslisted)
• ARTH 6856 - [Producing Cloth Cultures]
• ARTH 6858 - [Dancing the Stone: Body, Memory, and Architecture] (crosslisted)