How art helped to shape modern France
Art historian Kelly Presutti examines the role that depictions of landscape – in paintings, photographs, prints, porcelain and maps – played in the formation of modern France in a new book.
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The department encourages the crossing not only of geographic but also disciplinary borders through exploration of a wide range of fields including architecture, urban planning, critical and post-colonial theory, media studies, the sciences and social history.
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Upcoming Events
Sep
21
Saturday
10:00 AM
Fall Welcome at the Johnson Museum of Art
Johnson Museum of Art
Sep
24
Tuesday
04:45 PM
Picturing Time: Temporality and US Imperialism in Oceania
Goldwin Smith Hall
G22
Nov
08
Friday
03:00 PM
Anthropology Colloquium: Omar Aguilar Sanchez
McGraw Hall
165
Nov
18
Monday
12:15 PM
'Firing the Canon'
Associate Professor Annetta Alexandridis is featured in 'Firing the Canon: The Cornell Casts and Their Discontents':
Mnemosyne: Meanderings through Aby Warburg's Atlas
Begun in 1924 and left unfinished at the time of his death in 1929, the Mnemosyne Atlas is Aby Warburg’s attempt to map the “afterlife of antiquity,” or how images of great symbolic, intellectual, and emotional power emerge in Western antiquity and then reappear and are reanimated in the art and cosmology of later times and places, from Alexandrian Greece to Weimar Germany. Focusing especially on the Renaissance, the historical period where he found the struggle between the forces of reason and unreason to be most palpable, Warburg hoped that the Mnemosyne Atlas would allow its spectators to experience for themselves the “polarities” that riddle culture and thought.
Click here to explore ten panels from the Mnemosyne Atlas.
Department News
Pulse of Art History with Maggie Cao 9/24/2024
Pulse of Art History with Maggie Cao 9/24/2024
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Visual Culture Colloquium with Noelle Mason 9/10/2024
Visual Culture Colloquium with Noelle Mason 9/10/2024
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From portfolios to pizza, fall A&S career events explore diverse fields
"Cornell alumni are generous with their time and efforts to assist students, to answer questions from students, or connect them to people and places."
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Three members of History of Art Department Presented at Congress of the Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art (CIHA)
Three members of History of Art Department Presented at Congress of the Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art (CIHA)
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Derek Murray, PhD ’05, appointed editor of Art Journal
Derek Murray, PhD ’05, appointed editor of Art Journal
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Ananda Cohen-Aponte Co-Curated Exhibition Featured in New York Times
Ananda Cohen-Aponte, Associate Professor of History of Art, Co-Curated Exhibition Is Featured in New York Times
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