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  • Art History 269: Revolution,Social Change,and Art in Latin America

    4.00 Credits
    Bard College

    Human Rights, LAIS, SRE This course examines the role that Christian iconography played in the conquests of the 16th century and the radical new meanings that same iconography took as time went on; it also reviews the visual strategies employed in the presentation of the "heroes" of independencemovements (Simón Bolivar, Miguel Hidalgo) and how art contributed to the formation of national identities. It considers the 20th-century Mexican mural movement and how the artists involved promoted and reaffirmed the nation's new leftist political policies in public spaces. Other topics include printmaking as a political tool; the use of Che Guevara's image as a catalyst for social change; murals in Nicaragua; art by Chicano activists in the United States; and the role of folk art traditions.
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  • Art History 272: The European Baroque

    4.00 Credits
    Bard College

    French Studies, Italian Studies A survey of 17th-century European art, with an emphasis on major figures such as Bernini, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Rubens, Velázquez, and Vermeer. Topics include the baroque as a pan- European sensibility; artistic negotiation of personal style, princely prerogative, papal authority, and the demands of the market; collecting and connoisseurship; the rise of academies; studio practice; and illusionistic painting and architecture.
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  • Art History 277: The Dutch "Golden Age"

    4.00 Credits
    Bard College

    This course examines the extraordinarily rich visual culture that emerged in 17th-century Holland, the first bourgeois capitalist state. The class studies the art of Rembrandt and Vermeer, among others, as it expressed the daily life, desires, and identity of this new society. The course is taught thematically, addressing artistic practice (materials and production, patronage, the art market), aesthetics (realism, style), and social concerns (public and private life, city and rural cultures, national identity, colonialism, domesticity, gender, religion, and the new science).
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  • Art History 278: Winslow Homer to Jackson Pollock:The Rise of Modernism in America

    4.00 Credits
    Bard College

    American Studies This course concentrates on early 20th-century artists and art movements in the United States, from the emergence of photography to the rise of abstract expressionism. What do artists and critics mean when they talk about realism and abstraction? How have artists understood their work as modern? What responses have they had to social injustice and war? Topics include modernity and nationalism; the roles and representation of technology in art; exhibitions and cultural propaganda; artistic identity and gender roles; public art, murals, and social activism.
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  • Art History 283: Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art

    4.00 Credits
    Bard College

    An in-depth study of two major American art movements, abstract expressionism and pop art. The course begins with a survey of the socially concerned painters and sculptors of the Depression years and concludes with a study of minimal art and other later developments. Artists emphasized include Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, and Andy Warhol.
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  • Art History 284: Gender and the Visual Arts,1400-1700

    4.00 Credits
    Bard College

    GSS This course explores the intersection of gender and visual culture in early modern Europe, a period during which ideas about gender underwent rapid change. Using a variety of references (painting, works on paper, decorative arts, archi- tecture), the class discusses the ways that visual culture both reflected and shaped change, the differing conditions of artistic practice for men and women, the pictorial reinforcement of cultural ideals (courtship, marriage, the family), the visual critique of perceived threats to societal order (witchcraft, prostitution, homosexuality), images and sexual desire, and the body (anatomical illustration, the nude), among other topics.
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  • Art History 286: El Greco to Goya:Spanish Art and Architecture

    4.00 Credits
    Bard College

    LAIS This course surveys the complex visual culture of early modern Spain, with particular attention given to El Greco, Goya, Murillo, Velázquez, and Zurbarán. The class examines the formation of a distinct Spanish style within the context of European art and considers how Spanish artistic identity was a kind of hybrid, complicated both by Spain's importation of foreign artists (Rubens, Titian) and by its relationship to the art and architecture of the colonies. Subjects studied include palace art, architecture, and interior decoration as visual manifestations of Spanish power; devotional art; Spanish artistic theory and the training of artists; the art market and collecting; and artistic critiques of monarchical power.
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  • Art History 289: Rights and the Image

    4.00 Credits
    Bard College

    Human Rights This course examines the relationship between visual culture and human rights. It considers a wide range of visual media as well as aspects of visuality (surveillance, profiling). The course uses case studies that range in time from the early modern period (marking the body to register criminality, for example) to the present day (images from Abu Ghraib). Within this framework, students explore how aspects of visual culture have been used both to advocate for human rights and to suppress them. Subjects addressed include evidence, disaster photography, censorship, advocacy images, signs on the body, and visibility and invisibility.
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  • Art History 290: Arts in China

    4.00 Credits
    Bard College

    Asian Studies This survey course begins with a study of Neolithic painted pottery, the earliest expression of the Chinese aesthetic. Next, the early culture of the Bronze Age is reviewed, followed by the unification of China under the first emperor, the owner of 60,000 life-sized clay figurines. In the fifth century, Buddhist art achieved expression in colossal sculptures carved from living rock and in paintings of paradise. Confucian and Taoist philosophy, literature, and popular culture are examined through the paintings of the later dynasties, with an emphasis on landscape painting. The course ends with a consideration of 20th-century art.
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  • Art History 292: From Ming to Post-Mao:Modern Chinese Art

    4.00 Credits
    Bard College

    This course examines the origins of modern Chinese art in the Ming Dynasty (16th to 20th century) in order to appreciate the challenge faced by modern Chinese artists in addressing their traditional artistic heritage, and to understand contemporary artistic currents.
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