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ARTH 3419 Rembrandt's Circle: Global Dutch - Travel and Trade in Africa, the Americas, Asia(also VISST 3419)L. PincusT/R 2:55-4:10The variety of visual experience in 17th-century Dutch art is legion: still life, portraiture and self-portraiture, landscape and cityscape, architectural painting and scenes of everyday life, all in paint and...
Fall 2018ARTH 4162/6162 The Inca Empire and its Colonial Legacies(also ARKEO 4162/6162, LATA 4162/6162)A Cohen AponteR 12:20-2:15This course examines the art and architecture of the Inca Empire (ca. 1438-1532), the largest indigenous empire in the Americas prior to the Spanish conquest. The first half of the course explores architecture...
ARTH 3566/ VISST 3566 Art and Architecture of the Pre-Columbian Americas(also ARKEO 3566, LATA 3566, VISST 3566)A Cohen-AponteT/R 10:10-11:25 This course introduces students to the arts of the ancient Americas from circa 2000 BC to the Spanish invasions of the 15th and 16th centuries. The inhabitants of the Americas produced outstanding...
ARTH 1100 Art Histories: An IntroductionTopic for Fall 2018: World Art, Technology, and the EnvironmentM. FernandezM/W 2:55-4:10 This lecture course introduces students to the History of Art as a global and interdisciplinary field. Team-taught by several professors from the department in collaboration with educators and curators from the...
ARTH 4151/6151 Topics in Media Arts: Biological Art (Bio Art)(crosslisted as STS 4511/6511 / VISST 4151/6151)M. Fernandez, A. DouglasM 10:10-12:05 From the late 20th-century to the present, artists have made art using live entities including plants, animals, cells, tissue cultures and bacteria. They have designed habitats, crops, body...
ARTH 2400 Introduction to Renaissance and Baroque Art and Society(crosslisted as VISST 2645)C. LazzaroT/R 1:25-2:40Sec 1: R 3:35-4:25 Sec 2: F 12:20-1:10This course examines some of the major works of European artists from 1400 to 1750, a period with huge changes in religion, political systems, and knowledge of the world. We learn...
Spring 2018ARTH 4155 Latin American Modernisms and Technology The involvement of Latin American artists with modern media technologies dates at least to the late nineteenth century and has especially flourished in the last three decades. The canonical histories and criticism of Latin American art for the most part depict a history of artistic...
ARTH 4606/6606 Rembrandt Flesh Paint PerformanceSpring 2018L. PincusT 2:30-4:25Rembrandt was typical and exceptional in seventeenth-century Holland: typical because subject to the same market forces as others, and exceptional because he flouted that market, alienated patrons, innovating at every step. Both highly regarded and greatly...
Spring 2018ARTH 3225 Archaic and Classical Greece(also ARKEO 3225, CLASS 3735)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 specific local...
ARTH 3101/6101 Proseminar: Introduction to Methods (also VISST 3101)B. AndersonWorks 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 of their discipline. If art history was once...
Spring 2018ARTH 4353/6353(also ARKEO 4353/6353, CLASS 4755/7755)A. Alexandridis, B. AndersonPermission of instructor requiredThis traveling seminar explores the history and archaeology of one of the largest metropoleis of the ancient world. Straddling the Peloponnese and mainland Greece, Corinth was part of several empires. A major...
Spring 2018ARTH 4160/6160 Topics in Colonial Encounters(also LATA 4160/6160, VISST 4160)A. Cohen-AponteR 12:20-2:15Topic for spring 2018: Art and Identity in Colonial Latin AmericaThe colonial period in Latin America (circa 1521-1820s) witnessed the formation of one of the most diverse societies in the world. Labor regimes, religious...
Spring 2018ARTH 3565 Art & Architecture of Colonial Latin America(also LATA 3565, VISST 3565)A. Cohen-AponteT/R 10:10-11:25This course surveys the artistic and architectural traditions of Latin America during the period of Spanish colonial rule (ca. 1520s-1820s). It will center on visual cultures of the viceroyalties of New Spain (...
Spring 2018ARTH 3651 Women in New Media Art(also FGSS 3655, VISST 3651)M. FernandezM/W 2:55-4:10The work of women artists 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,...
Spring 2018ARTH 3440 Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, and their World(also VISST 3443)C. LazzaroM/W 2:55-4:10Leonardo, Michelangelo, and Raphael transformed the art of their time. Leonardo was an extraordinary thinker, scientist, and engineer as well as artist. Michelangelo invented grandiose projects for ambitious patrons and created...
Spring 2018ARTH 2355 Introduction to Art History: Medieval Art and CultureB. Anderson, C. RobinsonT/R 1:25-2:40Sec 1: W 10:10-11, Sec 2: R 3:35-4:25Survey lecture course covering the creation, encoding, and reception of Medieval (roughly AD 500-1500) European, Byzantine, and Islamic architecture, ornament, manuscripts, liturgical and...
Greek and Roman culture is replete with verbal and visual descriptions and depictions of animals, from Herodotus’ gold-digging ants or Pliny’s bestiary to Greek vase painting or the decoration of Roman houses and gardens. Research on ancient zoological knowledge has traditionally centered on identifying animal species in texts and images,...
ARTH 3419 Rembrandt’s Circle: Global Dutch – Travel and Trade in Africa, the Americas, AsiaL. PincusT/R 2:55-4:10GSH 158The variety of visual experience in 17th-century Dutch art is legion: still life, portraiture and self-portraiture, landscape and cityscape, architectural painting and scenes of everyday life, all in paint and print. New...
ARTH 4774/6774 Indigenous Spaces and MaterialityJ. RickardW 10:10-12:05GSH G19Materials will be considered as willful agents within artistic processes across key moments in history by tracing the flow of wampum from the east coast, recognizing the shift from shell to glass during the fur trade up to the emergence of digital experimentation....
Spring 2018VISST 2000 Introduction to Visual Studies(also AMST/ARTH/COML 2000)A. MoiseyT/R 2:55-4:20Sec 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 7: W 12:20-1:10, Sec 8: 1:25-2:15This course will introduce you to the field of Visual Studies. Visual...
ARTH 4440/6440 Constructing the Self in the Sixteenth CenturyC. LazzaroT 2:30-4:25GSH 156This seminar examines issues of identity and self-fashioning in the 16th century in early modern Europe, especially Italy. The proliferation of courtesy manuals, most famous of them by Castiglione, instructed in “civility,” and reflected the concern...
ARTH 2400 Introduction to Art History: Renaissance and BaroqueC. LazzaroT/R 10:10-11:25MCG 165Sec 1: W 10:10-11:00 Sec 2: W 11:15-12:05Sec 3: R 12:20-1:10 Sec 4: F 12:20-1:10Sec 1-4: GSH G20A survey of European art from 1400-1750, including all arts but emphasizing painting and analysis of the works of such major artists as Jan van...
ARTH 3901/6901 Ancient Art in Upstate New YorkA. AlexandridisT/R 10:10-11:25GSH 144Permission of Instructor Required.This tutorial investigates ancient art in collections (private and museums) in Upstate New York. Students learn to properly describe, document (in word and image), identify and finally present or publish the individual objects...
What is your area of research?I am a doctoral candidate in art history and visual studies, and my area of specialty is the visual culture of the Americas, and particularly histories of women and children in the Transatlantic space. I am interested in how pairings of women and young children emerge in visual materials that might be considered...
