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Visual Culture ColloquiumTuesday February 15, 2022 at 4:45pmZoom Lectureregistration required Yuhua Ding"Painting Antiquities in Early Twentieth-century China: The Case of Su Jiankuan"Su Jiankuan was an early twentieth-century artist known for his paintings of antiquities that imitated the effect of composite rubbing. Great changes...
Cornell’s plaster cast collection and samples from the dendrochronological laboratory feature in a new book by photographer Danielle Mericle, The Dark Wood (Melbourne: Perimeter Editions). Until 2015, Mericle, who now serves as Curator of Visual Materials at Special Collections and University Archives at the University of Oregon, was Director of...
PhD Candidate Lauren van Haaften-Schick and Associate Professor Dr. Cheryl Finley have co-authored an Op-Ed article for Artnet.com, “The Recent Sale of Amy Sherald’s ‘Welfare Queen’ Symbolizes the Urgent Need for Resale Royalties and Economic Equity for Artists.” The article highlights the need for innovative forms of “resale equity” in the art...
Book DescriptionThe Byzantine Neighbourhood contributes to a new narrative regarding Byzantine cities through the adoption of a neighbourhood perspective. It offers a multi-disciplinary investigation of the spatial and social practices that produced Byzantine concepts of neighbourhood and afforded dynamic interactions between different actors,...
Sadia Shirazi PhD '21, was a recipient of the The Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. Sadia was one of twenty writers who are the recipients of its 2021 grants, which total $695,000. "The grantees work across three categories—articles, books, and short-form writing—and each will receive an award of between $15,000 and $50,000." See full...
In The City in Time: Contemporary Art and Urban Form in Vietnam and Cambodia, Pamela N. Corey provides new ways of understanding contemporary artistic practices in a region that continues to linger in international perceptions as perpetually “postwar.” Focusing on art from the last two decades, Corey connects artistic developments with social...
To celebrate Native American Heritage Month 2021, AcademicInfluence.com focuses on 35 scholars from indigenous people groups in North America who have had a profound influence on academia, literature, history, the arts, science, politics, activism, and more:Influential American Indian Scholars"One of the goals of AcademicInfluence.com is to...
History of Art and Fine Art alumna Sarah Humphreville has recently curated Labyrinth of Forms: Women and Abstraction, 1930–1950 at the Whitney Museum of American Art, where she works as a Senior Curatorial Assistant. Labyrinth of Forms, drawn primarily from the Whitney’s collection, features over thirty works by twenty-seven artists and seeks to...
History of Art faculty Cheryl Finley and alumnus Derek Murray, PhD ’05 (Professor, History of Art and Visual Culture, UC Santa Cruz), present at the Reshaping the Field: Arts of the African Diasporas on Display, online conference: November 4–6, 2021.As part of its 30th anniversary season, the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College (CCS Bard...
ARTH 3225/6225 Archaic and Classical Greece (ARKEO 3225/ CLASS 3735)A. AlexandridisTR 11:25-12:40 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...
ARTH 4856/ 6856 Producing Cloth Cultures (CLASS 4756, VISST 4857)A. Alexandridis & K. McGowanW 2:40-4:35PERMISSION OF INSTRUCTOR REQUIRED It is a fundamental part of human activity to dress or cover one’s body and environment. While the symbolic significance of such clothing has long been recognized, the activity of producing fabric...
ARTH 3100/6100 History of PhotographyBastard of Science on the Doorstep of ArtA. MoiseyMW 2:45-4 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...
ARTH 4351/6351 Problems in Byzantine Art, Topic: Spiral Relief Columns (ARKEO 4351/ 6351, CLASS 4752/ 7752, MEDVL 4351/ 6351, NES 4351/ 6351, RELST 4351/ 6351, VISST 4351/ 6351)B. AndersonT 9:05 -11In this seminar, we will consider the Roman medium of the spiral relief column (beginning with the Columns of Trajan and Marcus Aurelius) and...
History of Art alumnus Matthew Hayes, BA ’99, publishes new book The Renaissance Restored.Matthew Hayes is a paintings conservator in private practice and director of the Pietro Edwards Society for Art Conservation in New York City. He has a PhD in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.The Renaissance Restored:...
4305/ 6305 Looking for Love: Visual and Literary Cultures of Love in the Medieval Mediterranean, 1100 – 1400AD (NES 4795)C. RobinsonT 12:25-2:20 A comparative and interdisciplinary seminar whose focus is the visual world created by the pan-Mediterranean (Iberian Peninsula, Maghreb, France, Italy, Turkey, Egypt, and Persia) culture of “...
K. PresuttiMW 9:40- 10:55 am This course takes a critical perspective on the centrality of Paris to canonical narratives of modernity and modern art and architecture. We will look both at some of the defining art movements of the 19th century and at the influx of people and objects from other cultures—many of whom and which arrived in Paris...
SPRING 2022 VISST 2000 Introduction to Visual Studies (AMST 2000/ ARTH 2000/ COML 2000)J. RickardTR 1-2:15Sections: DIS 201 & 205 R 2:40-3:30, 203 & 207 F 10:10 -11:00, 202 & 206 R 3:45 – 4:35, 204 & 208 F 11:20-12:10 This course introduces the field of Visual Studies. Visual Studies seeks to define and...
Visual Culture ColloquiumTuesday, October 26, 2021 at 4:45pmZoom LectureRegistration Required Nadya BairCorporate News Pictures at Magnum PhotosIn her recently published book, The Decisive Network: Magnum Photos and the Postwar Image Market, Nadya Bair draws on extensive archival research to unravel the mythologies surrounding the...
Peter Chametzky, Cornell BA '80, and Professor of Art History at the University of South Carolina, authors Turks, Jews, and Other Germans in Contemporary Art. The first book to examine multicultural visual art in Germany, discussing more than thirty contemporary artists and arguing for a cosmopolitan Germanness. Turks, Jews, and Other Germans...
Wednesday, September 15, 2021, 12pm EST via ZoomA panel discussion and series of readings from the 2021 anthology Best! Letters from Asian Americans in the Arts. Readings, annotations, and dialogue with editors and contributors Christopher K. Ho, Daisy Nam, Iftikhar Dadi, Rachel Ossip, and Dushko Petrovich CórdovaThis collection of seventy-...
The contemporary art world has witnessed an explosion of interest in the book form, exemplified by Karkhana [Workshop] (2003-2005), a project in which six artists graduates of the National College of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan modeled their work on the imperial Mughal kitabkhana (library). Taking its cue from such projects, this workshop examines...
Ph.D candidate Lara Fresko Madra of Cornell University's History of Art Department has been awarded the Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellowship at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She will join the cohort of 64 fellows selected for The Met’s 2021–2022 Fellowship Program. Fresko Madra was awarded the fellowship to continue her doctoral and curatorial...
Fatima QuraishiFeeling Subjects: Emotion and Affect at the Makli NecropolisThe Pulse of Art History Lecture SeriesOctober 19, 2021, 4:45 pmGoldwin Smith Hall G22The event is only open to the Cornell community. This talk presents a close analysis of a Persian text (1760-61CE) in praise of the Maklī necropolis in Sindh, now in modern-...
The Pulse of Art History Lecture Series - Nancy P. Lin9.28.21, 4:45pm Goldwin Smith Hall G22Sites at the Periphery: Making Experimental Art Spaces in BeijingDeveloping without the official support of state institutions, 1990s experimental art in China has often been described as “underground” or “independent.” In this talk, I suggest that...
Visual Culture ColloquiumTuesday, September 21, 2021 at 4:45pmZoom LectureRegistration required Việt LêAesthetics and Ethics of Return: Trauma, Militarism and Modernities in Southeast AsiaArguing for an ethics of return, the book Return Engagements is a political-economic critique of the nation-state, wars then and now, and global...