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  • AHIS BC 3682x: Cubism and the Crisis of Representation

    3.00 Credits
    Barnard College

    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. - A. Alberro Prerequisites: 20th Century Art recommended. Limited to 55 undergraduate students (no graduate students) 3 points
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  • AHIS BC 3685x: History of Art Film and Video

    3.00 Credits
    Barnard College

    This course 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. - A. Alberro Prerequisites: Sophomore standing. Course limited to 55 students (no graduate students). General Education Requirement: The Visual and Performing Arts (ART). 3 points
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  • AHIS BC 3936x: The Frick Museum

    4.00 Credits
    Barnard College

    Course Description to Come - A. Higonnet Prerequisites: Seminar Application Required. Please consult BC Art History website: www.barnard.edu/arthist 4 points
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  • AHIS BC 3941y: Contemporary African Photography and Video

    4.00 Credits
    Barnard College

    Explores the development of contemporary photographic and video practices as they relate to Africa. Organized thematically, it focuses on the individual case studies, artists, and exhibitions that comprise the dynamic and international realm of contemporary photography and video by artists living on and off the African continent. Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 15 students. Barnard Art History seminar application required. See dept. website. General Education Requirement: The Visual and Performing Arts (ART). 4 points
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  • AHIS BC 3948y: The Visual Culture of the Harlem Renaissance

    4.00 Credits
    Barnard College

    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. - E. Hutchinson Prerequisites: Enrollment limited to 15 students. Barnard Art History seminar application required. See dept. website. General Education Requirement: Historical Studies (HIS). General Education Requirement: The Visual and Performing Arts (ART). Not offered in 2009-2010. 4 points
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  • AHIS BC 3949x: The Art of Witness:Memorials and Historical Trauma

    4.00 Credits
    Barnard College

    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. - R. Deutsche 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. General Education Requirement: The Visual and Performing Arts (ART). 4 points
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  • AHIS BC 3950x: Contemporary Photography and Video in Asia

    4.00 Credits
    Barnard College

    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: Enrollment limited to 15 students. Barnard Art History seminar application required. See dept. website. General Education Requirement: The Visual and Performing Arts (ART). 4 points
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  • AHIS BC 3951y: Contemporary Art and the Public Sphere

    4.00 Credits
    Barnard College

    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: AHIS BC1001 - BC1002 or equivalent. Enrollment Limited to 15 students. Permission of the instructor. Preference to seniors and Art History majors. General Education Requirement: The Visual and Performing Arts (ART). 4 points
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  • AHIS BC 3952x: Art and Mass/Popular/Everyday Culture:1850 to the Present

    4.00 Credits
    Barnard College

    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: AHIS BC1001 - BC1002 or equivalent. Enrollment limited to 15 students. Permission of the instructor. Preference to seniors and Art History majors. General Education Requirement: The Visual and Performing Arts (ART). 4 points
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  • AHIS BC 3957x: or y 1980s Feminism and Postmodernism in the Visual Arts

    4.00 Credits
    Barnard College

    Examination of art and criticism that is informed by feminist and postmodern ideas about subjectivity in visual representation which first achieved prominence in the late 1970s and 1980s, exerting a profound influence on contemporary aesthetic practice. Explored in relation to earlier concepts of feminism, modernism, social art history, and "art as institution." Artworks discussed include those of Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman, Louise Lawler, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Hans Haacke, Mary Kelly, and Catherine Opie, among others. Prerequisites: AHIS BC1001 - BC1002 or equivalent. Enrollment limited to 15 students. Permission of the instructor. Preference to seniors and Art History majors. General Education Requirement: The Visual and Performing Arts (ART). Not offered in 2009-2010. 4 points
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