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3.00 Credits
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. - J. Snitzer Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 15 Students. Barnard Art History seminar application required. See the department website. General Education Requirement: The Visual and Performing Arts (ART). 3 points
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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. - J. Snitzer Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 15 students. Permission of the instructor. General Education Requirement: The Visual and Performing Arts (ART). 3 points
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Introduction to the art of North America from the colonial period until World War II. Surveys the contributions of Anglo-Americans, Latino/as, Native Americans and African-Americans to painting, sculpture, photography, graphic art and the built environment paying close attention to the development of artistic movements and institutions, the contributions of art to cultural dialogues, and changing ideas about artistic production and spectatorship. - E. Hutchinson General Education Requirement: The Visual and Performing Arts (ART). 3 points
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Introduction to Native American art of the plains, southwest, and California regions from the period of European contact to the present, and to issues of historiography. Surveys painted, carved, tailored, and architectural works. Focuses on understanding the relationship between social organization and artistic expression, and cross-cultural discourses. Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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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. - R. Deutsche Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 15 junior and senior students. Permission of the instructor. Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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Examination of the meaning of the term "public space" in contemporary debates in art, architecture, and urban discourse and the place of these debates within broader controversies over the meaning of democracy. Readings include Theodor Adorno, Vito Acconci, Michel de Certeau, Douglas Crimp, Thomas Crow, Jurgen Habermas, David Harvey, Fredric Jameson, Miwon Kwon, Henri Lefebvre, Bruce Robbins, Michael Sorkin, Mark Wigley, and Krzysztof Wodiczko. General Education Requirement: The Visual and Performing Arts (ART). Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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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. General Education Requirement: The Visual and Performing Arts (ART). 3 points
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Introduction to the history of art in post-war Europe and the United States from 1945 to the present, emphasizing questions of methodology of modernist studies and the diversity of theoretical approaches. General Education Requirement: The Visual and Performing Arts (ART). Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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Examines art and criticism of the 1970s and 1980s that were informed by feminist and postmodern ideas about visual representation. Explores postmodernism as (1) a critique of modernism, (2) a critique of representation, and (3) what Gayatri Spivak called "a radical acceptance of vulnerability." Studies art informed by feminist ideas about vision and subjectivity. Places this art in relation to other aesthetic phenomena, such as modernism, minimalism, institution-critical art, and earlier feminist interventions in art. - R. Deutsche Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to juniors and seniors only. General Education Requirement: The Visual and Performing Arts (ART). Not offered in 2009-2010. 3 points
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3.00 Credits
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. - A. Alberro 3 points
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