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ARTH 4101/6101 Proseminar: Introduction to Methods (VISST 4101)***ONLINE***A. AlexandridisM 3:00 – 4:55 pm ***Tentative*** Works of art have always engendered political, social, and cultural meanings. This seminar presents an introduction to the methods used by art historians and the objects and ideas that constitute the historiography...
ARTH 4035 Material Money: Ancient Coins (SHUM 4035)***currently, PT, in-person until Thanksgiving break*** A. AlexandridisT 11:30 - 1:25 *Tentative*Tutorial Commonly understood as currency, coins are also a medium of exchange, of communication, of power and authority on practical and symbolic levels. As such they provide a host of ...
ARTH 3650 History & Theory of Digital Art***ONLINE***VISST/ STS 3650/ INFO 3660M. FernandezMW 3:00 - 4:15 pm ***Tentative*** In this course students will examine the role of mechanical, electronic and digital technologies in the arts of the late 20th and 21st centuries with emphasis on Europe and North America. Beginning with...
ARTH 2600 Introduction to Modern Western Art: Materials, Media, and the End of Masterpieces***ONLINE***K. PresuttiMW 3:00-4:15 ***Times tentative***Discussions: 201: F 11:30-12:20 202: F 12:40-1:30 203: R 9:10-10:00 204: R 10:20-11:10This course offers a broad introduction to some of the artistic practices that have come to...
FALL 2020ARTH 1100 Art Histories: An introduction (SHUM 1100)***ONLINE***C. RobinsonTR 1:25-2:40 ***Tentative***4 credits.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...
Medieval art students visit the Rare and Manuscript Collections, where they were able to not only view 600-year-old manuscripts, but also learned how to handle them for close studies. Curator Laurent Ferri highlighted the function and history of individual objects to the students, while Michael Bednar introduced them to materials and technologies...
Hannah Ryan joins Department of Art and Art History at St. Olaf CollegeHannah received her Ph.D. in 2019 with dissertation titled "Liquid Gold: Lactation as Labor and Human Milk as Commodity in Transatlantic Visual Culture" under the mentorship of Professor Cheryl Finley.Philip Sapirstein joins Department of Anthropology and Art History at...
The second and final phase of MAHASSA (Modern Art Histories in and across Africa, South and Southeast Asia), took place at the fifth Dhaka Art Summit, in February 2020. This was an intensive ten-day convening with twenty outstanding emerging scholars from around the world, along with a team of leading international faculty, and several guest...
Grads attend final phase of MAHASSA (Modern Art Histories in and across Africa, South and Southeast Asia)This was an intensive ten-day convening with twenty outstanding scholars from around the world, along with a team of leading international core and invited faculty, and several guest speakers. Learn More Jessica Plant becomes Regular...
Karen Strassler - The Findley History of Art Lecture Series"From Art to Porn: Watching the Image-Event in Indonesia’s Public Sphere"February 20, 2020, 4:30 pm, Goldwin Smith Hall G22reception to followIn September 2005, members of the Islamic Defenders Front demanded the removal of Pinkswing Park, an artwork by a prominent Indonesian...
Greetings from Cornell’s Department of History of Art and Visual Studies! We are delighted to share with our alumni news of initiatives, events and programs over the past year.In Fall 2020 we will welcome a new faulty member, Kelly Presutti, in modern Western art. We chose Kelly last spring from a very strong field of 101 applicants for the...
Prof. Finley's Committed to Memory: The Art of the Slave Ship Icon was awarded by the Historians of British Art Book Award for Exemplary Scholarship on the Period between 1600—1800. Prof. Anderson's Cosmos and Community in Early Medieval Art was awarded Karen Gould Prize of the Medieval Academi of America. CONGRATULATIONS!
Kelly Presutti, Modern European ArtIn fall of 2020 Dr. Kelley Presutti will join our faculty ranks in the field of modern European art. Presutti is currently a Mellon post-doctoral fellow at Columbia University. She Graduated from MIT in 2016 with dissertation titled “Terroir after the Terror: Landscape and Representation in Nineteeth-Century...
SPRING 2020ARTH 4698/ 6698 Legal Issues in the ArtsA. KimW 2:30 – 4:25 This course explores the relationship between modern art, politics, and the law. The seminar will focus primarily on two major topics in art law, freedom of expression and intellectual property, while also introducing students to legal issues arising from the...
Anissa RahadiningtyasLukisan Kaligrafi and the Importance of Becoming "Islamic"Tuesday, November 12th 4:30pm in Goldwin Smith G22 AbstractIn 1985, Machmud Bukhori defined lukisan kaligrafi based on the practice of Ahmad Sadali (1924-1987) and A.D. Pirous (b. 1932), two prominent artists/intellectuals that pioneered the incorporation...
SPRING 2020ARTH 3651 Women in New Media Arts (VISST 3651/ FGSS 3655)M. FernandezMW 10:10 – 11:25 The work of women has been central to the development of new media art. These rich and varied practices include installation, virtual reality environments, net art, digital video, networked performance, tactical media, video games, remix and...
SPRING 20204451 (/6451) The World on Paper: Early Modern Printmaking (1475-1798) ( VISST 4451)C. LazzaroT 12:20 – 2:15 Printmaking in early modern Europe ushered in a revolution in the production and perception of images, relatively cheap and available to a wide public. What kinds of images emerged, and what purposes...
Spring 2020VISST 2000 Introduction to Visual Studies (AMST 2000/ ARTH 2000/ COML 2000)A. MoiseyTR 11:40-12:55Sections: 201 W 9:05-9:55, 202 W 10:10-11:00, 203 R 10:10 -11:00, 204 R 1:25 -2:15, 205 F 11:15 – 12:05, 206 F 12:20 – 1:10Introduction to Visual Studies explores what vision is and how visualizations shape our behavior. It...
Patricia Simons - The Findley History of Art Lecture Series"Reframing the model of the male gaze: Susanna and the voueuristic Elders"Novemeber 7, 2019, 4:30 pm, Goldwin Smith Hall G22reception to followThe Biblical tale of Susanna and the Elders is commonly read as a case of male voyeurism, in subject and purpose, or as mere moralizing...
Spring 20202355 Introduction to Medieval Art & Culture (MEDVL 2355)B. Anderson & C. RobinsonTR 1:25 – 2:40Sections: 201 W 12:20 – 1:10 202 F 12:20 – 1:10 Survey lecture course covering the creation, encoding, and reception of Medieval (roughly AD 500-1500) European, Byzantine, and Islamic architecture, ornament,...
SPRING 2020ARTH 6010 Museum Curatorial PracticumK. McGowanW 2:30 – 4:25This Curatorial Practicum evolved out of a Johnson Museum of Art's Andrew W. Mellon Foundation initiative in 2014. The seminar is collaborative and thematic, combining the expertise of museum curators with professors in the History of Art and Visual Studies. Scheduled...
SPRING 20204305 Looking for Love: Visual and Literary Cultures of Love in the Medieval Mediterranean, 1100 – 1400AD (NES 4795)C. Robinson Lecture M 2:30 – 4:25A comparative and interdisciplinary seminar whose focus is the visual world created by the pan-Mediterranean (Iberian Peninsula, Maghreb, France, Italy, Turkey, Egypt,...
SPRING 2020ARTH 2200/ ARKEO 2700/ CLASS 2700Introduction to Art History: The Classical WOrld in 24 ObjectsV. PlattT/R 10:10-11:25Sections: 201 R 12:20-1:10 202 F 11:15 – 12:05Did the Greeks really paint their marble statues? Did the Romans make wax death masks? Should the British Museum return the Parthenon Marbles to...
Artist talk, 10.22.19, 4:30 pmGoldwin Smith Hall G22reception to follow Abstract:In 1986, 152 Tamil refugees fleeing the beginnings of the Sri Lankan state’s bloody genocide of the Tamil people were discovered adrift near the eastern coast of Canada’s Avalon peninsula by a local fisherman. Despite grumblings from many Canadians, they...