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All Columbia seminars (with "AHIS" prefix) require an application.
If you are interested in a Barnard seminar, please attend the
first day of class. Columbia seminar applications are
due on November 19, 2004, 5:00PM in 826 Schermerhorn
Hall. There is no application form to complete. Please
compose a brief statement (1-2 paragraphs) explaining your
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Many courses fall into more than one distribution area. However, A
SINGLE COURSE can never fulfill two Field requirements AT THE
SAME TIME . For example, AHIS W4155: The Art and
Archaeology of Ancient Mesopotamia can fulfill either
'Ancient' or 'non-Western' but never both . CHECK to see which
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to see which requirement the courses below fulfill.
(BC 1002) Introduction to Art History
K. Rizvi
Second in two-term series; either term may be taken separately.
Brief examination of the techniques of visual analysis, followed
by a chronological survey of the major period styles of Western
European art. Emphasis on the introduction of form and content
in the works studied and on the correlation of the visual arts
with their cultural environments. BC1001: Greek and Roman art;
medieval art. BC1002: Renaissance to modern art.
(BC 3674) History of Photography
B. Buchloh
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.
(BC 3675) Feminism and Postmodernism in
the Visual Arts
R. Deutsche
Prerequisite: course in 20th-century art history. Examines
art and criticism of the 1970s and 1980s that were informed
by feminist and postmodern ideas about visual representation.
Places this art in relation to other aesthetic phenomena, such
as modernism, minimalism, institution-critical art, and earlier
feminist interventions in art.
(AHIS V3203) Arts of Japan
M. McCormick
Introduction to the painting, sculpture, and architecture of
Japan from the Neolithic period through the 19th century. Discussion
focuses on key monuments within their historical and cultural
contexts. Major Cultures Requirement: East Asian Civilization
List B.
(AHIS W3230) Medieval Architecture
S. Murray
Developed collaboratively and taught digitally spanning one
thousand years of architecture.
(AHUM V3340) Art in China, Japan, and
Korea
S. Larrivé-Bass
Introduction to the distinctive aesthetic traditions of China,
Japan, and Korea—their similarities and differences—through
an examination of the visual and cultural significance of selected
works. Survey of masterpieces of painting, sculpture, architecture,
and other arts in relation to the history, culture, and religions
of East Asia. Major Cultures Requirement: East Asian Civilization
List B.
(AHIS V3437) Italian Renaissance Painting
II: 16th century
D. Rosand
Style and significance of painting in Italy, with attention
to the social, political, and religious contexts of artistic
production as well as to the critical concepts of High Renaissance
and mannerism. Emphasis on major figures in Florence, Rome,
and Venice, especially Leonardo da Vinci, Michelangelo, Raphael,
Giorgione, and Titian.
(AHIS W3650) Twentieth-Century Art
R. Krauss
Lecture and discussion. Major developments in 20th-century
art, with emphasis on modernist and avant-garde practices and
their relevance for art up to the present.
(AHIS W3xxx) Twentieth-Century Architecture
V. Di Palma
Major movements, figures, and theoretical positions in European
and American architecture and city planning, from 1890 to the
present.
(AHIS W4670) Modern Sculpture Before
1945
S. Zeidler
A focused survey of the major developments in modern sculpture
from Rodin through Surrealism. Subjects addressed include the
crisis of the monument in modernity, the phenomenology of perception
in the urban environment, the complex relation of photography
and sculpture in Brancusi, and the radical transformation of
the sculptural tradition after World War I by the Duchampian
ready-made, Dadaist assemblage, the revolutionary object of
Constructivism, and Surrealism's objects of desire.
(AHIS W4202) From Constantine to Charlemagne:
The Transformation of the Mediterranean World, AD 300-800
F. Bauer
A survey of the art and culture of Late Antiquity and Early Medieval Europe from the early 4th through the 8th centuries in both Byzantine East and Latin West.
(AHIS G4405) Antiquity in Architecture
from the Renaissance to Postmodernity
F. Benelli
How and why architecture has been inspired by its past? How
its relationship with the Roman or Greek antiquity evolved
from the Italian Renaissance to American Postmodernism? Through
the study of literary sources and buildings we will explore
how the "modern" architect evolved his interpretation of ancient
prototypes from Brunelleschi to Philip Johnson.
(AHIS G4073) African Art, Architecture,
and Ideas
S. Vogel
An introduction to the arts of Sub-Saharan Africa focused mainly
on the rich traditions of Western and Central Africa in social
context. This survey includes art in many media and of all
periods from the Neolithic to the present, concentrating on
the 20th century. The course will address the tension between
the object as conceptualized and experienced in African cultures,
and the masterpiece as object of admiration and study in Western
culture.
(AHIS G4085) Andean Art & Architecture
E. Pasztory
Survey of the art of the Andes from earliest times until the
Spanish conquest. Emphasis on the nature of Andean tradition
and the relationship between art and society.
(AHIS W4155) Mesopotamian Art and Archaeology
Z. Bahrani
Introduction to the art and architecture of Mesopotamia beginning
with the establishment of the first cities in the fourth millennium
B.C.E. through the fall of Babylon to Alexander of Macedon
in the fourth century B.C.E. Focus on the distinctive concepts
and uses of art in the Assyro-Babylonian tradition.
(AHIS W4657) Russian Art 1860–1910: Shaping the Modern Sensibility
from Realism to the Silver Age
E. Valkenier
Interdisciplinary course positioning art in its societal
context. It treats the emergence of realism and modernism
not only in terms of formal, aesthetic innovations but also
in the matrix of changing society, patronage systems, economic
development, and national identities. Several guest speakers
will discuss specific aspects of the process, e.g., relating
literature to art or new art forms to contacts with the West.
Columbia University undergraduate seminars require an application,
which are due on November
19, 2004 5:00PM, in 826 Schermerhorn Hall. Download
the Spring 2005 Graduate Seminar Application as a PDF or
as a RTF.
(BC 3031) Imagery and Form in the Arts
J. Snitzer
Please attend first class if interested. The operation of imagery
and form in dance, music, theatre, visual arts, and writing;
students are expected to do original work in one of these arts.
Concepts in contemporary arts are explored.
To enroll students must attend the
first day of class.
(BC 3951) Contemporary Art and the Public
Sphere
R. Deutsche
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.
To enroll students must attend the
first day of class.
(BC 3985) Introduction to Connoisseurship
M. Ainsworth
Enrollment limited to 15. Prerequisite: the instructor's permission.
Factors involved in judging works of art, with emphasis on
paintings; materials; technique; condition; attribution; identification
of imitations and fakes; questions of relative quality.
To enroll students must attend the
first day of class.
(BC 39xx) Theories of 20th-century Modernity
and Visuality
S. Zeidler
Description to come.
To enroll students must attend the
first day of class.
(BC 3947) Surrealism
S. Zeidler
An exploration of the redescription of French surrealism in
recent scholarship through a select sample of case studies,
supplemented by extensive readings of Freudian psychoanalysis,
the novels of Breton; the photographs of brassai, Boiffard,
Cahun, and the "proto-Surrealist" Eugene Atget; the frottages
and collage novels of Max Ernst; the disturbing work of Hans
Bellmer; and a number of sculptures produced by Giacometti
as he moved in the circle of dissent Surrealists around George
Bataille.
To enroll students must attend the
first day of class.
(BC3924) Representing Kingship in the
Ottoman Safavid and Mughal Courts
K. Rizvi
Please attend first class if interested.
To enroll students must attend the
first day of class.
(AHIS W3895) Majors' Colloquium
C. Marconi
Must sign up in 826 Schermerhorn. Required course for all majors.
Limited enrollment: seniors get first priority, juniors get
second priority. Introduction to different methodological approaches
to the study of art and visual culture. Majors are encouraged
to take the colloquium during their junior year.
Sign up in 826 Schermerhorn Hall.
(AHIS V3933) Art in Early Medicean Florence
J. Beck
The painting, sculpture, and architecture produced by leading
masters of the time, centered around Donatello and including
Bruneschi, Alberti, Fra Angelico, and Fra Filippo Lippi and
produced during the hegemony of Cosmimo de'Medici (1434-1464).
This course requires all students submit
an application by November 19, 2004. Download application as
a PDF or
as a RTF.
(AHIS W3946) Greek Sicily (Travel Seminar)
C. Marconi
Urbanism, Architecture, and Art of the Greek colonies of Sicily
from the Geometric to the Hellenistic period. Learn more about
this travel seminar.
This course requires all students submit
an application by November 19, 2004. Download application as
a PDF or
as a RTF.
(AHIS W3988) Landscape and the Visual
Arts in China
R. Harrist
The landscape of China is marked by sites that have acquired lasting cultural significance through the interactions of myth, ritual, literature, and the visual arts.
Representations of these sites, which include sacred mountains, scenic areas, and tourist destinations, promoted habits of viewing that directed visitors to seek out unusual vistas, strange rock formations,
or ancient monuments. Memories of historical events or famous people associated with the sites added to their mystique. Among the most notable sites that will be covered in the seminar are Mt. Tai, a mountain sacred in both Confucian and Daoist thought; Mt. Huang, an area of spectacular, rugged peaks that became a popular tourist site in the 17th century; and Tiger Hill, a frequent destination of literati visitors from the Suzhou area.
The topic of the seminar demands a broadly interdisciplinary approach, and students will be encouraged to draw on methodologies from art history, anthropology, the history of religion, and other fields. No knowledge of Chinese is expected, but students who do know the language will be guided to appropriate sources. Readings in the history and theory of landscape in the West also will be included in the seminar in order to broaden the range of questions that can be asked about the experience of landscape in China.
This course requires all students submit
an application by November 19, 2004. Download application as
a PDF or
as a RTF.
Confirm course times, rooms, and call numbers on the Directory
of Classes at www.columbia.edu/cu/bulletin/uwb/
Graduate seminars require an application, which are due on November
24, 2004 5:00pm, in 826 Schermerhorn Hall. Download
the Spring 2005 Graduate Seminar Application as a PDF or
as a RTF.
Course types: 4000 level lectures are "introductory graduate
courses" and are open to advanced undergraduate and all graduate
students, and a limited amount of registered auditors from
the School of Continuing Education, if the instructor permits
auditors. 6000 level lectures are open only to Graduate Students.
Instructor permission is not required for graduate level lectures.
8000 level courses are graduate seminars for enrolled graduate
students and all seminars require an application. Graduate
students in the Department of Art History receive preference
for enrollment in graduate seminars and auditors are generally
not permitted.
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(AHIS W4670) Modern Sculpture Before 1945
S. Zeidler
A focused survey of the major developments in modern sculpture
from Rodin through Surrealism. Subjects addressed include the
crisis of the monument in modernity, the phenomenology of perception
in the urban environment, the complex relation of photography
and sculpture in Brancusi, and the radical transformation of
the sculptural tradition after World War I by the Duchampian
ready-made, Dadaist assemblage, the revolutionary object of
Constructivism, and Surrealism's objects of desire.
(AHIS W4202) From Constantine to Charlemagne:
The Transformation of the Mediterranean World, AD 300-800
F. Bauer
A survey of the art and culture of Late Antiquity and Early Medieval Europe from the early 4th through the 8th centuries in both Byzantine East and Latin West.
(AHIS G4405) Antiquity in Architecture
from the Renaissance to Postmodernity
F. Benelli
How and why architecture has been inspired by its past? How
its relationship with the Roman or Greek antiquity evolved
from the Italian Renaissance to American Postmodernism? Through
the study of literary sources and buildings we will explore
how the "modern" architect evolved his interpretation of ancient
prototypes from Brunelleschi to Philip Johnson.
(AHIS G4073) African Art, Architecture,
and Ideas
S. Vogel
An introduction to the arts of Sub-Saharan Africa focused mainly
on the rich traditions of Western and Central Africa in social
context. This survey includes art in many media and of all
periods from the Neolithic to the present, concentrating on
the 20th century. The course will address the tension between
the object as conceptualized and experienced in African cultures,
and the masterpiece as object of admiration and study in Western
culture.
(AHIS G4085) Andean Art & Architecture
E. Pasztory
Survey of the art of the Andes from earliest times until the
Spanish conquest. Emphasis on the nature of Andean tradition
and the relationship between art and society.
(AHIS W4155) Mesopotamian Art and Archaeology
Z. Bahrani
Introduction to the art and architecture of Mesopotamia beginning
with the establishment of the first cities in the fourth millennium
B.C.E. through the fall of Babylon to Alexander of Macedon
in the fourth century B.C.E. Focus on the distinctive concepts
and uses of art in the Assyro-Babylonian tradition.
(AHIS G6400) Florentine Painting
J. Beck
The careers of the leading Florentine masters of the 15th and
16th centuries. Emphasis upon individual style and patronage,
and how the two elements interrelated.
(AHIS G6800) The Russian Avant-Garde
C. Kiaer
This course examines the Russian avant-garde in relation both
to the larger narrative of Western modernism and to the history
of the Russian Revolution. Topics include late 19th C. critical
realism, symbolism, neoprimtivism, cubo-futurism, Suprematism,
Constructivism, and photographic practices.
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Graduate seminars require an application, which are due on November
24, 2004 5:00pm, in 826 Schermerhorn Hall. Download
the Spring 2005 Graduate Seminar Application as a PDF or
as a RTF.
(AHISG8094) Mamallapuram & the Origins
of the South Indian Style
V. Dehejia
This seminar seeks to arrive at a well-grounded "reading" of
the enigmatic site of Mamalla-puram, port of the Pallava dynasty,
that holds the key to the origins of the South Indian style.
It then examines the development and flowering of South Indian
architecture and sculpture under the aegis of the Chola monarchs.
This course requires all students
submit an application by November 24, 2004. Download application
as a PDF or
as a RTF.
(AHISG8029) Approaches to the Art History
of Prehistory
J. Smith
Written references to images, objects, and historical perspectives
on art history are often missing for pre- and protohistoric
periods, such as in the Bronze Age Mediterranean world. This
seminar explores sources for art histories of prehistories
and seeks to define what connections are meaningful for scholars
and those that were meaningful for artisans and consumers in
the past.
This course requires all students submit
an application by November 24, 2004. Download application as
a PDF or as a RTF.
(AHISG8323) Ink Paintings of Medieval
Japan
M. McCormick
Explores the origins and development of the ink painting tradition
in Japan from the 14th–16th centuries, paying special attention
to Chinese precedents, the format of the poem-picture scroll,
and the Japanese Zen monastic milieu in which the genre flourished.
This course requires all students submit
an application by November 24, 2004. Download application as
a PDF or as a RTF.
(AHISG8453) Italian Architectural
Drawings, 1480–1700
F. Benelli
Drawings will be analyzed primarily as a tool of the architect
to represent the design path that goes from the idea (sketches)
to the final project and the actual building. Through the study
of architectural drawings it will be possible to understand
the process of design and if and how it develops from early
modern architecture to the coming of neoclassicism. The seminar
is based mainly on direct analysis of drawings, at times real.
This course requires all students submit
an application by November 24, 2004. Download application as
a PDF or as a RTF.
(AHIS G8623) Postwar European Art II
B. Buchloh
Presenting and analyzing selected figures and groups (Independent Group, Vienna Actionism, COBRA), the seminar focuses on the intersections between Pre-War avantgardes, the chasms of WW II and the rising impact of American art on newly emerging artistic formations between 1955–1968 in Great Britain, Austria and the Northern European countries.
This course requires all students submit an
application by November 24, 2004. Download application as a PDF or
as a RTF.
(AHIS G8088) The Literature of Pre-Columbian
Art
E. Pasztory
The various theories of pre-Columbian art from the First World
art history in which it was included beginning in 1841 until
the present time. The writings of George Kubler considered
in depth. Theories of art are related to archaeology and literature.
This course requires all students submit
an application by November 24, 2004. Download application as
a PDF or as a RTF.
(AHIS G8383) Romantic Image of Gothic
S. Murray
Prerequisite: some knowledge of Gothic Architecture. This class
explores the problem of the representation of Gothic
buildings through words and images. The seminar will focus
on post-medieval images, exploring the possibility of an exhibition
of the Voyages pittoresques in the Wallach Gallery.
This course requires all students submit
an application by November 24, 2004. Download application as
a PDF or as a RTF.
(AHIS G8436) Renaissance Venice
D. Rosand
Topics in Venetian art and architecture of the 15th and 16th
centuries. Seminar examines the monuments that shaped and defined
Venice at the height of its political power and cultural achievement.
Focus on governmental and corporate institutions such as the
Ducal Palace and the religious confraternities, their architecture,
and pictural decoration, as well as on the urban renewal of
the city and its public presentation. Topics include the iconography
of the state, the guild system; and the social status of the
artist; printing and publishing; patterns of patronage; chapels
and altarpieces.
This course requires all students submit
an application by November 24, 2004. Download application as
a PDF or as a RTF.
(AHIS G8820) Social(ist) Realism
C. Kiaer
Political realist art of the 1930s to the 1960s—Soviet
socialist realism, fascist art, the various forms of Eastern
and Western European socialist realism under communist party
directives, as well as American social realism of the 1930s
and beyond—all form the repressed other to the history
of 20th-century modernism. Considers socialist-(and national-
socialist-) inspired mimetic art as an oppositional category
within modernism, both theoretically and historically.
This course requires all students submit
an application by November 24, 2004. Download application as
a PDF or as a RTF.
(AHIS G8933) Topics in Critical Theory—The
Cinematic
J. Rajchman
A close reading of Deleuze's study of cinema is a starting
point for a larger critical question as to how the arts deal
with space, time, and movement beyond the confines of figure
and ground.
This course requires all students submit
an application by November 24, 2004. Download application as
a PDF or as a RTF.
(AHIS G8569) French Painting in Paris
during the reign of Louis XV
C. Bailey
Reading knowledge of French essential. An opportunity to examine in some depth the period generally known (and often dismissed) as the rococo. The seminar will focus on the major figures of the period—Watteau, Chardin, Boucher, Greuze and Fragonard (up to the Progress of Love)—while also considering the larger themes of the Academy, the Salon and salon criticism, institutional and private patronage, and notions of interior decoration and display. Less familiar artists such as Lemoyne, De Troy, Lancret, Natoire and Saint-Aubin will also be introduced. While the majority of sessions will be held in the classroom, the seminar will include at least four site visits to museums.
This course requires all students submit
an application by November 24, 2004. Download application as
a PDF or as a RTF.
(AHIS G8685) Art & Technology
J. Crary
Selected problems in the history and theory of relations between
art and technique, from the Renaissance invention of perspective
and printing to contemporary artificial intelligence and virtual
reality technologies. Panofsky, Benjamin, Francastel, Mumford,
Kracauer, Heidegger, Adorno, McLuhan, Virilio, Foucault, Deleuze,
Kittler, Haraway, and Koolhaas.
This course requires all students submit
an application by November 24, 2004. Download application as
a PDF or as a RTF.
(AHIS G8915) Meyer Schapiro's Theory
of Art History
P. Berdini
Meyer Schapiro called art history "the language
of experience of forms" and considered theory essential
to the art historian’s understanding of the complexity
of beholding and the artist’s creative process. Though,
what were the theoretical attitudes and preoccupations that
sustained the critical precision of his explorations of new
themes and problems? To answer this question the seminar examines
and discusses a number of texts from his published and unpublished
studies.
This course requires all students submit
an application by November 24, 2004. Download application as
a PDF or as a RTF.
(AHIS G8582) Landscape and Esthetics in Eighteenth-Century
England
V. Di Palma
This seminar examines the development of landscape aesthetics in eighteenth-century England through a detailed examination of key texts including Locke, Addison, Burke, Gilpin, Price, and Payne-Knight. Topics to be explored include natural history and topography, the rise of domestic tourism, debates on the sublime and picturesque, and the relationship between the environment and the self.
This course requires all students submit an application
by November 24, 2004. Download application as a PDF or
as a RTF.
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(AHISG8995) Whitney Seminar
S. Wolf
Required course for all first-year M.A. Curatorial students
in the Department, who will be automatically registered for
this course by the department.
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H. Ballon (academic year), B. Bergdoll (spring term),
C. Grewe (academic year), A. Higonnet (academic year), E. Hutchinson
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