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The Masonic Muhammad:Modern Franco-Iranian Visual Encounters in Prophetic Iconography March 28, 2019 4:30 pm, reception to follow Goldwin Smith Hall G22Christiane Gruber is Professor and Associate Chair in the History of Art Department at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her primary fields of research include Islamic book arts,...
“Digital” technology derives its name from the Latin digitalis, meaning finger or finger’s breadth. A series of associations and transmutations incrementally led this term from its original use, which posited the physical body as a reference point and measure of things, to its common meaning today: discrete, discontinuous, abstract representations...
Mason's source of this inquiry is whanau (family) and the question put forward by Tūhoe elder Hori Mataiawhea, to invite discussion, interpretation and analysis of a possibly annoying idea. This is used as a deepening point to see that we are timeless in the here and now. How a Tūhoe person may relate to knowledge passed down the generations, is a...
Prof. Stager examined color in ancient Mediterranean art, in particular color’s relationship to matter and vision. She also talked about the color’s materiality in the context of artists’ depictions of eyes, ideas about vision circulating in the ancient Mediterranean, and the expanding medium of mosaic.
Professor Iftikhar Dadi is the recipient and Principal Investigator of a $238,000 grant from the Getty Foundation's Connecting Art Histories initiative. This grant will support a series of research seminars titled Modern Art Histories in and across Africa, South and Southeast Asia. The grant has been awarded through the Institute of Comparative...
On Monday, January 14th Prof. Finley participated in the special broadcast radio discussion on the John Silverstein Collection of African American Social History.Access streamed recording of the program at Wanda's picks
By Beth SaulnierJanuary/February 2019Original articleIt remains as shocking today as it was when it was first printed in the late eighteenth century: an intricately detailed drawing of hundreds of human bodies, lying in the cargo hold of a slave ship en route from West Africa to the Americas. The accompanying text is no less disturbing. It...
On December 10th 2018, Professor FInley was interviewed by Susan Arbetter for a segment on the Creative Economy and Urban Development in Upstate New York.For more see here
THE DISAPPEARANCE OF DISAPPEARANCESAn exhibition of drawings by Visiting Artist Pushapakanthan Pakkiyarajah Runs through November 12, 2018 in the History of Art Gallery, Goldwin Smith Hall (Open Monday-Friday 9am - 4:30pm)Artist Talk and Public Reception on Friday November 9 @ 4:30 pmFree and open to the public. Please email ke249@...
VISST 2000 Introduction to Visual Studies (also AMST 2000, ARTH 2000, COML 2000)SPRING 2019A MoiseyM/W 2:55-4:10Sec 1: W 10:10-11 Sec 2: W 11:15-12:05 Sec 3: W 12:20-1:10 Sec 4: W 1:25-2:15 Sec 5: F 10:10-11 Sec 6: F 11:15-12:05 Sec...
ARTH 4855/6855 Threads of Consequence: Textiles in South and Southeast AsiaSpring 2019(also ASIAN 4487/6644, VISST 4855/6855)K. McGowanLetter grades only.Auditors not allowed.Permission of instructor required.4 credits. This seminar explores how patterned cloths serve as a symbolic medium, functioning on multiple levels of...
ARTH 4590/6590 Theory and History of AbstractionSpring 2019A. KimW 2:30 – 4:25Student option gradingAuditors allowed.4 credits. In this course, we will explore the long and varied history of abstraction as both a practice and an ideal. We will survey this history by drawing on two distinct bodies of thought relevant to the problem...
ARTH 4165/6165 Visual Encounters in the Early Modern World (Also LATA 4165/6165, VISST 4165)SPRING 2019A. Cohen-Aponte, C. LazzaroW 10:10-12:05This course will look at visual representations of cross-cultural encounters throughout the early modern period with a special emphasis on exchanges between Europe...
ARTH 3850 The Arts of Southeast Asia (also ASIAN 3350, VISST 3696)SPRING 2019K. McGowanT/R 10:10-11:25 amThe arts of Southeast Asia are studied in their social context, where art plays a role in most of the salient occasions in life in traditional societies....
ARTH 4601/6601 Space, Gender, Body in Early Modern ArtSPRING 2019(also VISST 4601/6601, FGSS 4601/6601)L. PincusT 2:30-4:25 The body is a universal. How we construct our understandings of it is not. In this class we will investigate conceptions and treatment of the early-modern body (1400-1700) mainly in Europe with excursions to China...
ARTH 2550 Introduction to Latin American Art (also LATA 2050/ VISST 2550)A. Cohen-AponteT/R 11:40-12:55This course is designed to introduce students to Latin American art from the pre-Columbian period to the present. It will cover the arts of ancient...
ARTH 2221 Architecture of Roman Private Life SPRING 2019 (CLASS 2743/ ARKEO 2743)A. AlexandridisT/R 8:40 – 9:55What was it like to live in the Roman world? What did that world look, taste and smell like? How did Romans raise their families, entertain themselves,...
Latina/o Studies, Art History, LASP, and CIAMS students and faculty headed to NYC on Saturday, September 26, to attend two important art exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the National Museum of the American Indian. Latina/o Studies teaching faculty and Associate Professor of Art History, Ananda Cohen-Aponte, is currently...
Greetings from Ithaca in our first electronic newsletter! The Department of History of Art and Visual Studies is flourishing, and we want to share with you some of our news, our exciting activities, and our wonderful students.We continue to offer classes on a wide range of topics at different levels and in a variety of formats, covering...
The History of Art Department PhD students have exciting summers, traveling and researching in the field.Sardis, TurkeyMembers of Cornell's History of Art and Visual Studies Department excavated in Sardis, Turkey. ARTH PhD student, Jessica Plant worked side-by-side with alumni Frances Marques. History of Art faculty Benjamin Anderson and...
PhDNatalia A. Di PietrantonioHannah RyanKristen StreahleHistory of Art Major - Bachelor of ArtsRiley McDonough HendersonTroy Sherman, Summa Cum LaudeSamantha Siegler, Magna Cum LaudeAnamaria ToledoHistory of Art MinorKatherine CampagnaSo Yeon KimAmanda HouseRosalyn XuWenjia YouVisual Studies MinorRiley McDonough...
ARTH 2600 Introduction to Modern Western Art, from the Age of Revolutions to the Age of CapitalFall 2018A. KimT/R 11:40 – 12:55Sec 1: W 2:30-3:20 Sec 2: W 3:35-4:25 Sec 3: R 1:25-2:15 Sec 4: R 2:30-3:20This course surveys major artistic movements and artists in Europe and the United States from the French...
ARTH 2200 Introduction to the Classical World in 24 ObjectsFall 2018(also ARKEO 2700, CLASS 2700)A. AlexandridisMW 8:40 – 9:55 Sec 1: F 10:10 – 11:00 Sec 2: F 11:15 – 12:05What is the origin of the Olympic games? Why are the most famous Greek vases found in Italy? What was the “worlds’ first computer” used for? What can a brick...
3940/6940 The PhotobookFall 2018A. MoiseyMW 2:55-4:10 The history of photography as an art has been mostly on the page, not on the wall. This course refocuses the standard museum and gallery history of photography back to the book. Significantly, it takes advantage, through field trips, of the proximity of Cornell to the George Eastman...
ARTH 3100 The History of PhotographyFall 2018A. MoiseyT/R 1:25-2:40How 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 travel, and labor and industry. By...