BARNARD ART HISTORY COURSES
Spring 2010

UNDERGRADUATE LECTURES SPRING 2010

AHIS BC1002y Introduction to the History of Art II
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: one-hour weekly discussion sections to be arranged.
Call Number: 01823 Points: 3
Day/Time: Mondays / Wednesdays 2:40-3:55pm Location: 304 Barnard Hall (Held Lecture Hall)
Instructor: Anne Higonnet

AHIS BC3642y North American Art and Culture
An examination of North American painting, sculpture, photography, graphic art and decorative arts from the Colonial Period until World War I. Artists discussed will include Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley, Thomas Cole, Lilly Martin Spencer, Harriet Powers, Rafael Aragon, Robert Duncanson, Frederick Church, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, James MacNeill Whistler, Mary Cassatt, Thomas Moran, Henry Ossawa Tanner and Eadweard Muybridge.
Note: one-hour weekly discussion sections to be arranged.
Call Number: 02487 Points: 3
Day/Time: TBA
Instructor: Elizabeth Hutchinson

AHIS BC3654y Institutional Critique
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.
Call Number: 07579 Points: 3
Day/Time: T/TH 1:10-2:25pm Location: 302 Barnard Hall
Instructor: Rosalyn Deutsche

AHIS BC3673y History of Photography
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.
Call Number: 03527 Points: 3
Day/Time: TBA
Instructor: Alexander Alberro

AHIS BC3681y Late 20th Century Art: The 1960’s to the Present
This course 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 postmodernism and contemporary art, the course addresses a wide range of historical and methodological questions.
Call Number: 04379 Points: 3
Day/Time: TBA
Instructor: Alexander Alberro

BARNARD UNDERGRADUATE SEMINARS SPRING 2010

Note all Barnard Art History seminars (AHIS BC prefix) are limited to 15 students and require an application. Applications are due in the Barnard Art History office, 301 Barnard Hall no later than Monday, November 20th at 5pm.

Click HERE for a seminar application.

AHIS BC3031y Imagery and Form in the Arts
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.
Enrollment limited to 15 students. Note: No application is necessary for this course.
Call Number: 03350 Points: 3
Day/Time: M 2:10-4:00pm Location: 203 Barnard Hall
Instructor: Joan Snitzer

AHIS BC3941y Contemporary African Photography and Video
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.
Enrollment limited to 15 students. Application due by 11/20/09.
Call Number: 07098 Points: 4 Applications due by 11/30/09
Day/Time: W 6:10-8:00pm Location: 302 Barnard Hall
Instructor: Isolde Brielmaier

AHIS BC3948y The Visual Culture of the Harlem Renaissance
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.
Enrollment limited to 15 students. Application due by 11/20/09.
Call Number: 09239 Points: 4
Day/Time TBA
Instructor: Elizabeth Hutchinson
930 Schermerhorn on Tuesday 10-11:50

AHIS BC3960y Senior Research Seminar
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. NOTE: OPEN TO SENIOR BARNARD ART HISTORY MAJORS AND IS A MAJORS REQUIREMENT. Note: No application is necessary for this course.
Call Number: 05407 Points: 3
Day/Time: T 6:10pm-8:00pm Location: 302 Barnard Hall
Instructor: Rosalyn Deutsche

SCPP BC2240 MUSEUM PRACTICUM – Exhibiting: Engaging Public Understanding
Be art at the Guggenheim Museum. Noted contemporary artist Tino Seghal and the Guggenheim are looking for articulate students to engage visitors in conversation about culture, 12 hours a week for 6 weeks. The conversations are the work of art. Conversation with professor as conclusion. Note: No application is necessary for this course.
Call Number: TK Points: 1
Day/Time: January 28-March 10 Times and Locations to be announced
Instructor Anne Higonnet

BARNARD STUDIO COURSES SPRING 2010

Note: Barnard studio courses are limited to 15 students with instructor’s permission. Instructor decides the roster on the first day of class. Please contact individual Professors. For further information please contact the Barnard Art History Department

AHIS BC2006y, 2008y Painting
Basic understanding of the visual representation of space, color, and form are developed by setting specific tasks to be executed in oil painting. Class work 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.
Call Number: 02328 Points: 2
Day/Time: W 2:10pm-6:00pm Location: 305 Barnard Hall Art Studio
Instructor: Joan Snitzer

AHIS BC2001y Introduction To Drawing
This class will introduce 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.
Call Number: 09706 Points: 2
Day/Time: T 2:10pm-6:00pm Location: 305 Barnard Hall Art Studio
Instructor: John Miller

AHIS BC3003y Supervised Projects In Photography
This class is designed for students to conduct independent projects in photography.
Call Number: 03690 Points: 3
Day/Time: Monday 11:00am-12:50pm Location: 305 Barnard Hall Art Studio
Instructor: John Miller

AHIS BC3997 Senior Research Project
COURSE ONLY OPEN TO SENIOR BARNARD ART HISTORY and VISUAL ARTS MAJORS AND IS A BARNARD VISUAL ARTS MAJORS REQUIREMENT.
Call Number: 01403 Points: 4
Day/Time: M 5-7 Location: 305 Barnard Hall Art Studio
Instructor: Snitzer/Miller

Barnard Art History Courses
Fall 2009

UNDERGRADUATE LECTURES FALL 2009

AHIS BC1001x Introduction to Art History I
An introduction to the art of the past with an emphasis on the variety of perspectives from which it may be studied. While mainly dedicated to the art of Western Europe, the course includes serious discussion of other cultures as well. Works of art from different periods will be selected for discussion in depth. The fall semester covers Ancient, Medieval, and early Renaissance. Members of Barnard and Columbia’s art history faculty and other invited speakers contribute lectures in their fields of specialization. Note: One hour weekly discussion sections required and to be arranged.
Call Number: 01823 Points: 4
Day/Time: Monday/Wednesday 2:40pm-3:55pm Location: 304 Barnard Hall
Instructor: Keith Moxey

AHIS W3600x Nineteenth Century Art
Studies European visual arts of the 19th century. Covers a century of rapid stylistic, political and technological changes beginning with the radical changes of the Enlightenment and ending with the glamorous portraits of the Belle Epoque. Considers careers and works of individual artists, formal innovation, the invention of new media, materials, institutional structures, and ideological functions. Discussion Section Required.
Call Number: 27246 Points: 3
Day/Time: TR 10:35-11:50 Location: 304 Barnard Hall
Instructor: Anne Higonnet

AHIS BC3658x History and Theory of the Avant Garde
This course examines the practice of artistic avant-gardism from the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth century. Using case studies, it explores the relationship between the avant-garde, the institutions of art, and political radicalism. The course also studies art-historical theories of the modernist, historical and neo-avant-gardes as well as critiques of avant-gardism from feminist and democratic points of view, discussing the charge of “elitism” often leveled against avant-gardism. The approach is genealogical, investigating the constitution and uses of “the avant-garde” as a concept. Artists include Courbet, Manet, Gauguin, Duchamp, Heartfield, the Dadaists, Tatlin, and Kruger, among others. Readings: Clement Greenberg, Peter Bürger, Renato Poggioli, Charles Baudelaire, Carol Duncan, Janet Wolff, Andreas Huyssens, Linda Nochlin, Rosalind Krauss, Herbert Marcuse, Benjamin Buchloh, Douglas Crimp, Craig Owens, and Walter Benjamin, among others.
Call Number: 05399 Points: 3
Day/Time: TR 1:10pm-2:25pm Location: 302 Barnard Hall
Instructor: Rosalyn Deutsche

AHIS BC3682x Cubism and the Crisis of Representatin
The artistic phenomenon that came to be called Cubism is generally considered one of the most 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 responded to the
dramatically changing notions of space, time and dimension in the early twentieth century.
Call Number: To Come (check the online pencil book for the most updated information) Points: 3
Day/Time: TR 10:35-11:50 Location: 302 Barnard Hall
Instructor: Alexander Alberro

BARNARD UNDERGRADUATE BRIDGE LECTURES FALL 2009
Please note: All 4000 level lectures are known as “BRIDGE LECTURES” and are introductory graduate courses open to advanced undergraduates.

AHIS G4555x American Colonial Portraitures
This course introduces American colonial portraits by Copley, Campeche, Vanderlyn and others with the aim of understanding them as individual works of art and what they can tell us about the ideas, aesthetics and values of Spanish, French, Dutch and English colonial cultures collectively and in comparison with one another.
Call Number: 02354 Points: 3
Day/Time: MW 1:10pm-2:25pm Location: 612 Schermerhorn Hall
Instructor: Elizabeth Hutchinson

BARNARD UNDERGRADUATE SEMINARS FALL 2009

All Barnard seminars (with “AHIS BC” prefix) require an application. Please click here to see a Barnard  seminar application form. Fall 2009 Barnard Art History seminars are full. 

AHIS BC3936x The Frick Museum
This seminar, made possible by the Frick Collection, studies the historical context, collection, installation, and ideas of one of New York’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.
Call Number: To Come Points: 4
Day/Time: Thursday 2:10-4 Location: 406 Barnard Hall and The Frick Museum
Instructor: Anne Higonnet

AHIS BC3949x Memorials: The Art of Witness
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.
Call Number: 00373 Points: 4
Day/Time: W 11:00am-12:50pm Location: 203 Barnard Hall
Instructor: Rosalyn Deutsche

AHIS BC3950x Contemporary Video and Film in Asia
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.
Call Number: 05400 Points: 4
Day/Time: W 6:10pm-8:00pm Location: 302 Barnard Hall
Instructor: Christopher Phillips

AHIS BC3960x Senior Research Seminar
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.
NOTE: OPEN TO SENIOR BARNARD ART HISTORY MAJORS AND IS A MAJORS REQUIREMENT
Call Number: 05407 Points: 3
Day/Time: T 6:10pm-8:00pm Location: 302 Barnard Hall
Instructor: Rosalyn Deutsche

AHIS BC3968x Art Criticism
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.
Call Number: 07232 Points: 4
Day/Time: T 11:00am-12:50pm Location: 404 Barnard Hall
Instructor: Nick Guagnini

AHIS BC3970x Methods and Theories of Art History
An introduction to critical writings that have shaped histories of art, including texts on iconography and iconology, the psychology of perception, psychoanalysis, social history, feminism and gender studies, structuralism, semiotics, and post-structuralism. Note: open to Barnard Art History majors only and is a requirement for the major.
Section 001 Call Number: 08145 Points: 4
Day/Time: R 11:00am-12:50pm Location: 404 Barnard Hall
Notes: LIMITED TO BARNARD SENIOR ART HIST MAJORS
Instructor: Elizabeth Hutchinson
Section 002 Call Number: 06349 Points: 4
Day/Time: T 2:10pm-4:00pm Location: 406 Barnard Hall
Notes: LIMITED TO BARNARD SENIOR ART HIST MAJORS
Instructor: Alexander Alberro

AHIS BC3985x Introduction To Connoisseurship
Factors involved in judging works of art, with emphasis on paintings; materials, technique, condition, attribution; identification of imitations and fakes; questions of relative quality.
Call Number: 05399 Points: 4
Day/Time: M 10:00-12:00 Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Instructor: Maryan Ainsworth

FALL 2009 BARNARD STUDIO COURSES

Note: Barnard studio courses are limited to 15 students with instructor’s permission. Instructor decides the roster on the first day of class. Please contact individual Professors. For further information please contact the Barnard Art History Department

AHIS BC2005x, 2007x Painting
Basic understanding of the visual representation of space, color, and form are developed by setting specific tasks to be executed in oil painting. Class work 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.
Call Number: 02328 Points: 2
Day/Time: W 2:10pm-6:00pm Location: 305 Barnard Hall Art Studio
Instructor: Joan Snitzer

AHIS BC2001x Introduction To Drawing
This class will introduce 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.
Call Number: 09706 Points: 2
Day/Time: T 2:10pm-6:00pm Location: 305 Barnard Hall Art Studio
Instructor: Nick Guagnini

AHIS BC3003x Supervised Projects In Photography
This class is designed for students to conduct independent projects in photography.
Call Number: 03690 Points: 3
Day/Time: Monday 11:00am-12:50pm Location: 305 Barnard Hall Art Studio
Instructor: Nick Guagnini

AHIS BC3997x Senior Research Project
COURSE ONLY OPEN TO SENIOR BARNARD ART HISTORY and VISUAL ARTS MAJORS AND IS A BARNARD VISUAL ARTS MAJORS REQUIREMENT.
Call Number: 01403 Points: 4
Day/Time: M 5-7 Location: 305 Barnard Hall Art Studio
Instructor: Snitzer/Guagnini