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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.
Associate Professor Annetta Alexandridis is featured in 'Firing the Canon: The Cornell Casts and Their Discontents':
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.
A collaboration between Cornell and Harvard has continuously excavated the ancient city.
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A new book by Shirley Samuels examines the story behind today’s divided America in literature and art created during and soon after the Civil War.
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Pulse of Art History with Luke Fidler 11/11/2025
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La Pérouse’s expedition, wrecked in 1788, was intended to rival those of British explorer Captain James Cook and to bring the French renown in scientific knowledge. Through the visual materials related to the voyage and its wreck, Kelly Presutti tells a larger story about the enterprise of empire.
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Professor Presutti's ARTH 2600 Takes Field Trip to Buffalo Museums
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Professor Shirley Samuels publishes new book, Haunted by the Civil War
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Harmonia Rosales’s artist lecture to be followed by a conversation with History of Art faculty Verity Platt and Ana Howie
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Atreyee Gupta book talk on her two recently published titles
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