Introduction to the art of the past with an emphasis on the variety of perspectives from which it may be studied. Artworks from different period cultures will be selected for discussion in depth. Members of art history faculty and other invited speakers lecture in their fields of specialization. Ancient, Medieval, and early Renaissance will be covered. Note: weekly discussion groups to be arranged.

Discussion Section Required.

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 15 students.

Introduction to drawing as an open-ended way of working and thinking. The class is primarily a workshop, augmented by slides, lectures and field trips. Throughout the semester, students will discuss their work one-on-one with the instructor and as a group. Starting with figure drawing, we will investigate drawing as a practice involving diverse forms of visual culture.

Basic understanding of the visual representation of space, color, and form are developed by setting specific tasks to be executed in oil painting. Classwork will include drawing and painting from the model as well as still-life arrangements. Emphasis is on the painting methods and techniques used historically in Realism, Expressionism, and Abstraction. Students are encouraged to develop oral and written skills through weekly discussions and assignments that accompany the examination of visual art. No prior experience is necessary.

Basic understanding of the visual representation of space, color, and form are developed by setting specific tasks to be executed in oil painting. Classwork will include drawing and painting from the model as well as still life arrangements. Emphasis is on the painting methods and techniques used historically in Realism, Expressionism, and Abstraction. Students are encouraged to develop oral and written skills through weekly discussions and assignments that accompany the examination of visual art. No prior experience is necessary.

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 15 students. Permission of the instructor. Sophomore standing.

Ukiyo-e, the "images of the floating world," present a vivid and highly romanticized vision of the dynamic urban culture of Japan during the 17th through 19th centuries. Considers ways in which these images promoted kabuki theater, glamorized life in the licensed prostitution quarters, and represented sexuality and gender. We will study how print designers and publishers dodged government censorship as they ruthlessly parodied contemporary life, literature, and venerable artistic traditions.

Basic understanding of the visual representation of space, color, and form are developed by setting specific tasks to be executed in oil painting. Classwork will include drawing and painting from the model as well as still-life arrangements. Emphasis is on the painting methods and techniques used historically in Realism, Expressionism, and Abstraction. Students are encouraged to develop oral and written skills through weekly discussions and assignments that accompany the examination of visual art. No prior experience is necessary.

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 15 students.

Designed for students to conduct independent projects in photography.

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 15 students. Permission of the instructor.

An interpretive study of the theoretical and critical issues in visual art. Projects that are modeled after major movements in contemporary art will be executed in the studio. Each student develops an original body of artwork and participates in group discussions of the assigned readings.

Prerequisites: AHIS BC1001-BC1002 or equivalent. Enrollment limited to 15 students. Barnard Art History seminar application required. See dept. website. Preference to seniors and Art History majors.

Examines aesthetic responses to collective historical traumas, such as slavery, the Holocaust, the bombing of Hiroshima, AIDS, homelessness, immigration, and the recent attack on the World Trade Center. Studies theories about trauma, memory, and representation. Explores debates about the function and form of memorials.

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 15 students. Barnard Art History seminar application required. See dept. website.

Explores the range of contemporary photographic and video work being made in Japan, China, Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Considers the artists, institutions, publications and exhibitions that have contributed to the growing centrality of Asia in the contemporary art world.

Prerequisites: AHIS BC1001 - BC1002 or equivalent. Enrollment limited to 15 students. Permission of the instructor. Preference to seniors and Art History majors.

Examines interactions between art in Europe and the United States during the 19th and 20th centuries, on the one hand, and non-art forms of culture that are called variously �mass,� �popular,� and �everyday� culture, on the other. Places art/mass culture interactions within the rise of bourgeois society, the invention of democracy, and relations of class, gender, sexuality, and race. Studies major critical theories and debates about the relationship between art and mass culture.

Prerequisites: Course open to Barnard Art History majors only.

Independent research for the senior thesis. Students develop and write their senior thesis in consultation with an individual faculty adviser in art history and participate in group meetings scheduled throughout the senior year.

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 15 students. Permission of the instructor.

Contemporary art and its criticism written by artists (rather than by art historians or journalistic reviewers). Texts by Dan Graham, (Art and Language), Robert Smithson, Brian O�Dougherty, Martha Rosler, Barbara Kruger and others. Also, considers the art and writing of each artist together.

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 15 students. Barnard Art History seminar application required. See dept. website.

Factors involved in judging works of art, with emphasis on paintings; materials, technique, condition, attribution; identification of imitations and fakes; questions of relative quality.

Prerequisites: 20th Century Art recommended. Limited to 55 undergraduate students (no graduate students)

The artistic phenomenon that came to be called Cubism is widely considered to be pivotal in the history of twentieth century art. This course studies Cubism in all of its complexity. Particular attention will be paid to the ways in which Cubist artists respond to the dramatically changing notions of space, time and dimension in the early twentieth century.

Prerequisites: Sophomore standing. Course limited to 55 students (no graduate students).

Introduces the history of art film and video art practices of the twentieth century. Focusing on the interrelationships between art film, video art, and modernist culture, the course addresses a wide range of social, historical, and methodological questions arising from the advent and development of these new media.

Prerequisites: Seminar Application Required. Please consult BC Art History website: www.barnard.edu/arthist

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Prerequisites: 3000-level Art History course. Enrollment limited to 12 students. Sophomore standing.

Made possible by the Frick Collection, the seminar studies the historical context, collection, installation, and ideas of one of New York City's great museums. Granted privileged access to the galleries and the archives of the Frick Collection, students will have a unique opportunity to learn directly from art objects and primary sources.

Introduction to the art of the past with an emphasis on the variety of perspectives from which it may be studied. Artworks from different period cultures will be selected for discussion in depth. Members of art history faculty and other invited speakers lecture in their fields of specialization. Renaissance to Modern art will be covered. Note: weekly discussion groups to be arranged.

Discussion Section Required.

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 15 students.

Introduction to drawing as an open-ended way of working and thinking. The class is primarily a workshop, augmented by slides, lectures and field trips. Throughout the semester, students will discuss their work one-on-one with the instructor and as a group. Starting with figure drawing, we will investigate drawing as a practice involving diverse forms of visual culture.

Basic understanding of the visual representation of space, color, and form are developed by setting specific tasks to be executed in oil painting. Classwork will include drawing and painting from the model as well as still life arrangements. Emphasis is on the painting methods and techniques used historically in Realism, Expressionism, and Abstraction. Students are encouraged to develop oral and written skills through weekly discussions and assignments that accompany the examination of visual art. No prior experience is necessary.

Basic understanding of the visual representation of space, color, and form are developed by setting specific tasks to be executed in oil painting. Classwork will include drawing and painting from the model as well as still-life arrangements. Emphasis is on the painting methods and techniques used historically in Realism, Expressionism, and Abstraction. Students are encouraged to develop oral and written skills through weekly discussions and assignments that accompany the examination of visual art. No prior experience is necessary.

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 15 students.

Designed for students to conduct independent projects in photography.

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 15 Students. Barnard Art History seminar application required. See the department website.

Operation of imagery and form in dance, music, theater, visual arts and writing; students are expected to do original work in one of these arts. Concepts in contemporary art will be explored.

Architecture, sculpture, and painting of ancient Rome from the second century B.C. to the end of the Roman Empire in the West.

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 15 junior and senior students. Permission of the instructor.

Examines precedents for institutional critique in the strategies of early twentieth-century historical avant-garde and the post-war neo-avant-garde. Explores ideas about the institution and violence, investigates the critique and elaboration of institutional critique from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, and considers the legacies of institutional critiques in the art of the present.

Focuses on the intersection of photography with traditional artistic practices in the 19th century, on the mass cultural functions of photography in propaganda and advertising from the 1920s onwards, and on the emergence of photography as the central medium in the production of postwar avant-garde art practices.

Discussion Section Required.

Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 15 students. Barnard Art History seminar application required. See dept. website for application and instructions. www.barnard.edu/arthist

Introduction to the paintings, photographs, sculptures, films, and graphic arts of the Harlem Renaissance and the publications, exhibitions, and institutions involved in the production and consumption of images of African-Americans. Focuses on impact of Black northward and transatlantic migration and the roles of region, class, gender, and sexuality.

Prerequisites: AHIS BC1001 - BC1002 or equivalent. Enrollment Limited to 15 students. Permission of the instructor. Preference to seniors and Art History majors.

Critically examines contemporary debates about the meaning of public art and public space, placing them within broader controversies over definitions of urban life and democracy. Explores ideas about what it means to bring the term �public� into proximity with the term �art.� Considers the differing ideas about social unity that inform theories of public space as well as feminist criticism of the masculine presumptions underlying certain critical theories of public space/art.

Prerequisites: Course open to Barnard Art History majors only.

Independent research for the senior thesis. Students develop and write their senior thesis in consultation with an individual faculty adviser in art history and participate in group meetings scheduled throughout the senior year.

Prerequisites: Course open to Barnard Art History majors only.

Independent research for the senior thesis. Students develop and write their senior thesis in consultation with an individual faculty adviser in Art History and participate in group meetings scheduled throughout the senior year.

Examines the relationship between 19th-century landscapes (paintings, photographs and illustrations) and tourism in North America. The semiotics of tourism, the tourist industry as patron, the tourist as audience, and the visual implications of new forms of travel explored via the work of Cole, Moran, Jackson, and others.

Introduces the history of contemporary artistic practices from the 1960s to the present, and the major critical and historical accounts of modernism and postmodernism in the arts. Focusing on the interrelationships between modernist culture and the emerging concepts of postmodern and contemporary art, the course addresses a wide range of historical and methodological questions.