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All Columbia seminars (with "AHIS" prefix) require an application. Columbia seminar applications are due on November 23rd, 5:00pm in 826 Schermerhorn Hall. Download
the Spring 2006 Undergraduate Seminar Application as a PDF or
as a RTF.
If you are interested in a Barnard seminar, please attend the first day of class. Please compose a brief statement (1-2 paragraphs) explaining your interest in and preparation (e.g., past coursework) for the course. Address the statement to the instructor (Dear Prof. xxxx.) Include: name, PID or social security number, school, Major/Concentration(s), year, email address. An individual application is required for each seminar to which you apply.
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 requirement the courses below fulfill at:
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(BC 1002) Introduction to the History of Art II
A. Higonnet
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.
(AHIS C3001) Introduction To Architecture
F. Benelli
Satisfies the architectural history/theory distribution requirement for majors, but is also open to students wanting a general humanistic approach to architecture and its history. Architecture analyzed through in-depth case studies of major monuments of sacred, public, and domestic space, from the Pantheon and Hagia Sophia to Fallingwater and the Guggenheim. Discussion Section Required.
(AHIS BC3123) Women and Art
Fillin-Yeh
Discussion of the methods necessary to analyze visual images of women in their historical, racial, and class contexts, and to understand the status of women as producers, patrons, and audiences of art and architecture.
(CLAH V3132) Classical Myth
C. Marconi
D. Steiner
A survey of major myths from the ancient Near East to the advent of Christianity, focussing chiefly on their treatment in the literary and visual sources of archaic and classical Greece and imperial Rome.
(AHIS V3201) The Arts of China
R. Harrist
Introduction to the arts of China--ceramics, bronzes, sculpture, and painting--from the time of the earliest farming cultures (ca. 5000 B.C.) through the end of the traditional period.
(AHIS V3250) Roman Art and Architecture
F. de Angelis
The architecture, sculpture, and painting of ancient Rome from the 2nd century B.C. to the end of the Empire in the West.
(AHUM V3340) Art In China, Japan, and Korea
A. Tunstall, S. Larrive-Bass
Introduces distinctive aesthetic traditions of China, Japan, and Korea--their similarities and differences--through an examination of the visual significance of selected works of painting, sculpture, architecture, and other arts in relation to the history, culture, and religions of East Asia.
(AHIS BC3673) History of Photography
S. Laxton
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.
(AHIS BC3675) Feminism and Postmodernism In the Visual Arts
R. Deutsche
Prerequisites: 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 W3833) Architecture, 1750-1890
V. DiPalma
Major theorists and designs of architecture, primarily European, from the Age of Enlightenment to the dawn of the art nouveau critique of historicism. Particular attention to changing conditions of architectural practice, professionalization, and the rise of new building types, with focus on major figures, including Soufflot, Adam, Boullée, Ledoux, Schinkel, Pugin, and Garnier.
Columbia University undergraduate seminars require an application, which are due on November 23rd , 2005 5:00 PM in 826 Schermerhorn Hall. The application can be found here.
(AHIS W3895) Major’s Colloquium: the Literature and Methods of Art History
J. Crary
Prerequisites: the department's permission. Students must sign-up in 826 Schermerhorn. Introduction to different methodological approaches to the study of art and visual culture. Majors are encouraged to take the colloquium during their junior year.
(AHIS W3907) The Construction of Andean Art
E. Pasztory
Prerequisites: Course in related field, or equivalent experience. Application required. Explores various ways in which the West has made sense of Andean Art from the 16th century to the present.
(AHIS W3908) Topics in the Mediterranean Bronze Age: Figurines
J. Smith
Understanding the form, significance, and reception of small-scale, symbolic human and animal figures in Mediterranean Bronze Age art involves the study of images, ancient texts, archaeology, and modern ethnographies in addition to magic, dieties, worshippers, and toys. Students will pursue original research projects, present their work to the seminar, submit papers, and engage in class discussion.
(AHIS W3917) Kings, Caliphs, and Emperors: Images of Authority In the Era of the Crusades
A. Walker
This course investigates how notions of political and social authority were conveyed through the visual and material cultures of Byzantium, the Islamic world, and western Christendom when these groups experienced an unprecedented degree of cross-cultural exposure as a result of Crusader incursions in the eastern Mediterranean. Particular attention is paid to the production of hybrid monuments and objects.
(AHIS W3941) House and Garden In 18th Century England
V. Di Palma
This seminar investigates the development of the country house in eighteenth-century England, with particular attention paid to the relationship between the house and its landscape setting. The seminar will travel to England for one week, visiting sites including Chiswick, Stowe, and Stourhead.
(AHIS W3942) Turner
S. Schama
An intensive study of how an entirely new form of visionary painting came to be made in the most materialist society in the world; the man who made it and the culture which both supported and balked at him.
(AHIS BC3947) Dada and Surrealism
S. Laxton
Description TBA
(AHIS BC3948) The Visual Culture of the Harlem Renaissance
E. Hutchinson
Attendance at the first class is mandatory. 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.
(AHIS BC3950) Photography and Video in Asia
Phillips
Description TBA
(AHIS W3972) The Collage From Picasso to Richard Prince: Its History and Its Concepts
P. Schaesberg
Working primarily with original works in the Museum of Modern Art the seminar will explore how artists throughout the 20th Century - almost compulsively - continue to utilize the collage as a process for generating their work. Analyzing the implied theoretical and artistic structure of the collage as an artistic technique, the main and dominating ideas, key notions and paradigms for modern art will be elaborated. Authors to be read include: Clement Greenberg, Leo Steinberg, Rosalind Krauss, Wendy Steiner, Thomas F. Kuhn, Umberto Eco, Fredric Jameson. Artist will include: Pablo Picasso, Kazimir Malevich, Kurt Schwitters, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Edward Ruscha, Richard Prince.
(AHIS BC3985) Introduction To Connoisseurship
M. Ainsworth
Instructor permission required. Enrollment limited to 15. Factors involved in judging works of art, with emphasis on paintings; materials; technique, condition, attribution; identification of imitations and fakes; questions of relative quality.
(AHIS W3985) Iconoclasm and Seventeenth -Century Dutch Landscapes
A. Powell
This course explores the relevance iconoclastic acts and attitudes had for production of landscape paintings and prints in the Northern Netherlands of the late 16th and 17th centuries. We'll look at how iconoclasm affected patronage, open markets, and production of landscapes, but primarily be concerned with how and where critical attitudes towards images worked their way into rhetoric of the landscapes, showing up in their omissions, anti-compositions, and monochromy.
(AHHS 4403) Robert Moses and the Modern City
***Special note*** Admission by application form through the Art History Department, not the History Department as previously stated; Application forms are due 11/23 in 826 Schermerhorn; A special form for this particular class is available HERE.
H. Ballon
K. Jackson
No individual had a greater impact on the physical form of New York than Robert Moses. This seminar will examine his transformation of New York, which encompassed parks, beaches, pools, playgrounds, highways, bridges, tunnels, slum clearance and housing projects from the 1930s-1960s. We will consider Moses in a national context, read his critics, and debate about urban renewal, superblock urbanism, highways in the city, and urban segregation. The seminar will involve students in a 2006 exhibition on Moses, and require field trips, group projects, and primary research in local archives
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Graduate seminars require an application, which are due on November
23, 2005 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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(ACLG W4001) Archaeological Theory
Practice
J. Smith
Archaeological theory and practice takes students through process of archaeological thought, from formulation of an idea, through processes of survey and excavation, to analysis of data, and interpretation of results. Archaeologies from several world cultures are included. The many topics covered include: the meaning of archaeology, excavation, conservation, ceramics, the individual and culture groups, and cultural heritage.
(AHIS G4126) Indian painting
V. Dehejia
This course focuses on Indian painted manuscripts created from the fifteenth century onwards at both the Mughal imperial center of Delhi and the various Hindu Rajput courts of Rajasthan and the Punjab Hills. Guest lectures will be presented by scholars who have extensively researched specific traditions of Indian miniature painting.
(AHIS W4626) Tourism & North American Landscape
E. Hutchinson
Prerequisites: Junior or senior standing.
Examines the relationship between Ninteenth Century landscapes (paintings, photographs and illustrations) and tourism in North America. The semiotics of tourism, the tourist industry as patron/tourist as audience, and the visual implications of new forms of travel will be explored via the work of Cole, Moran, Jackson and others.
(AHIS W4657) Russian Art 1860-1910
E. Valkenier
Description TBA
(AHIS W4317) Monumental Programs in Medieval Art: 400-1350
A. Bouché
No prerequisites: suitable for motivated students at all levels.
A study of monumental programs -- cycles of imagery -- in variety of architectural contexts: portal sculpture, wall painting, stained glass, floor and ceiling decoration. Students will become familiar with major iconographical themes, symbolic meanings of buildings, textual sources of these programs (the Bible, biblical apocrypha, mystery plays, legends, fable and theology) and the reasons behind their creation.
(AHIS G6630) Post-War Critical Theory
J. Rajchman
Description TBA
(AHIS G6249) Greek Art and Architecture II
C. Marconi
An introduction the Art and Architecture of the Greek World during the Classical and Late Classical Period (480-323 BCE).
(AHIS G6466) Venetian Painting of the Renaissance
D. Rosand
Selected topics on painting in Venice from ca. 1450 to the end of the 16th century, with special attention to problems of context and interpretation; emphasis on major painters?Giovanni Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, Veronese, Tintoretto, Jacopo Bassano.
(AHIS G6650) Multiple Modernities
E. Pasztory
A comparative approach to the vibrant contemporary arts outside the West which seem not to fit easily into current classifications. The aim is to initiate the discourse for the study of modern art and architecture in the countries of Asia, Africa, and the Americas.
(AHIS G6710) Tradition & Innovation In German Architecture: Schinkel,
Semper, Mies
B. Bergdoll
Prerequisite for undergraduates: course in 19th or 20th century architectural history and instructor's permission. Discussion sections for undergraduates to be arranged.
German Architectural design and theory from Winckelmann to the early work of Mies van der Rohe with special emphasis on Schinkel and his contemporaries in Prussia, Bavaria, and Baden. Key texts of architectural theory and contemporary literary or philosophical theories that shaped architectural thought.
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All graduate seminars require an application. Applications are due by
November 23, 2005, 5:00pm without exception in 826 Schermerhorn Hall.
The seminar application for all Art History and Archaeology graduate
seminars consist of a one-page form, available only online as a PDF or
as a RTF (the office does not have copies of the form.) Do not attach second pages or letters to the form, only this application form will be accepted. An individual application form is required for each seminar to which you apply. Please drop off seminar applications to 826 Schermerhorn by the deadline.
(AHIS G8xxx) Happenings: Art and the Everyday, 1958-1968
J. Rodenbeck
This seminar examines the happening, an artform that flourished around 1958, first in the United States, then in Europe and to a limited extent in Japan, and then died out around 1968. We will ask what relation happenings had to anti-modernist and modernist formations; what features the canonical works shared; and how new critical approaches might inflect our understanding not only of these historical objects but also of more recent artistic and art historical projects. Interested students will have the opportunity to do research in conjunction with the exhibition "Allan Kaprow - A Survey Presentation," currently being organized by the Munich Haus der Kunst and the Eindhoven Van Abbemuseum.
(AHIS G8058) African Architecture
S. Vogel
We will examine architectural invention in sub-Saharan Africa concentrating on the abundant local invention. Topics include: urban and village design; adaptation to the environment and climate in the main style zones; aesthetics and meaning; the science and engineering of building systems and construction techniques; the dynamics of social relationships mapped by structures and revealed by maintenance; adaptation to contemporary desires.
(AHIS G8427) Art Theory & Criticisms of the Renaissance
D. Rosand
Theories of art and the artist, with special attention to the development of an aesthetics of painting. Focus will be on texts by Cennini, Alberti, Michelangelo, Pino, Dolce, and Vasari-with consideration as well of non-artistic texts, such as those by Castiglione and Ariosto.
(AHIS G8451) Architecture of the Vatican: XV to XVII century
F. Benelli
A basic reading knowledge of Italian and an understanding of architectural drawings are strongly suggested. An investigation into the development and transformation of the Vatican site from the first modification of early Christian basilica by Nicholas V to the construction of the Bernini’s piazza in the XVII century. The seminar will explore relations between architecture and power, liturgy and religion, the Pope's self-representation and urban strategies through the analysis of drawings, documents and contemporary texts. A basic reading knowledge of Italian and an understanding of architectural drawings are strongly suggested.
(AHIS G8543) Ancients & Moderns: Cultural Ruptures and Debate in the
Baroque Age
H. Ballon
Seminar on aspects of architecture, urbanism, art theory, and representation in France during the early modern period. Topics include urban planning in Paris; the chateau and classical garden; Versailles; ritual forms of the monarchy; ideology and iconography of Louis XIV; the rise of the Academies; the quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns.
(AHIS G8685) Art and 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.
(AHIS G8875) Examination of the 'Cinematic'
J. Rajchman
What is the cinematic? How does it change our ideas of art? In this seminar we will examine the answer Gilles Deleuze gave to these questions twenty years ago when he presented cinema as a way of thinking with movement- and time- images, with a long series of connections with other arts and disciplines and socio-political mutations, which increasingly had to confront a society of information and control. Readings from a number of sources will supplement the examination of Deleuze's two volumes on film, and their attempt to introduce a new aesthetics of duration.
(AHIS G8885) Made in the Museum
A. Higonnet
This seminar studies the museum as a condition of nineteenth-century visuality. Concentrating on the work of seven important artists, the seminar will investigate issues of originality and reproduction raised by artists’ relationship to the evolving institution of the art museum. Two weeks each will be devoted to: Canova, Thorvaldsen, Turner, Géricault, Morse, Menzel, and Manet. New modes of reproduction and collecting offered by neo-classical sculpture, lithographic prints, museum copies, and photography will be discussed, as well as problems in the geography of nineteenth-century art made brought about by new technologies of communication, including relationships among European countries, between Europe and the United States, and between western and Japanese art.
(AHIS G8140) Describing Art: Ancient Ekphrasis between Aesthetics Theory and Artistic Practice
F. DeAngelis
Ekphrasis, the vivid description of objects or scenes, can be considered one of the main tools for investigating the constantly shifting relationship between the visual and the verbal, especially in the field of the arts. Its early but already very rich history in classical antiquity, from Homer to Philostratus, has been crucial also for subsequent developments in the Western artistic tradition, down to our times.
(AHIS G8278) Roman Historical Relief Sculpture
N. Kampen
Prerequisites: Knowledge of at least one of the following: Latin,
French, German, Italian Course investigates the representation of
historical events, both specific and typical, on public monuments of the
Roman republic and the impreial period.
(AHIS G8825) Art History After the "End" of Art
K. Moxey
This course analyzes the fate of art history in the absence of
universally recognized theories of art and history. To what extent do
the old "master narratives" still constitute a necessary backdrop
against which new approaches must find their place? What are the
disadvantages of the present uncertainty?
(AHIS G8269) New Approaches to the Study of Romanesque and Gothic
S. Murray
An exploration of the themes and issues that have animated the study of
Romanesque, and Gothic art in recent decades. We will begin with
humanistic concerns (anthropology, sociology, semiotics, narrative, etc)
and will conclude with the application of digital technology to the
understanding of Romanesque.
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(AFAS G4080, Section 002) Topics in the Black Experience: Black West: African American Artists in the Western United States
Kellie Jones
Preference given to African-American Studies Majors; register
yourself during the registration period
This course considers the creative production of African Americans primarily in California in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Of interest are the graphic and photographic works of Grafton Tyler Brown and J.P. Ball and the Narratives of black cowboys in the 19th century. Moving to the 20th century we will consider sculpture by Beulah Ecton Woodard and Sargent Johnson and architecture by Paul Williams and their relationship to modern themes and theory, particularly that of the Harlem Renaissance. We will also look at African American connection to the film industry through black westerns like The Bronze Buckaroo, Harlem Rides the Range and Two Gun Man from Harlem all from the 1930s. In the contemporary period we will explore the work of artists in dialogue with the Black Arts Movement including Betye Saar, Charles White, David Hammons, and Senga Nengudi. Themes pertinent to the course include: how African American identities and cultural production imbricated with concepts of what is considered "western" or trends of west coast artmaking?; what can these artists tell us about notions of space, place, and migration in the African American imagination?
(FILM W3500) Interdisciplinary Studies
K. Minturn
Seminar may count towards AHAR students course and/or seminar requirements.
Description TBA.
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Zainab Bahrani (spring 2006)
James Beck (spring 2006)
David Freedberg (spring 2006)
Cordula Grewe (spring 2006)
Holger Klein (fall 2005 - spring 2006)
Rosalind Krauss (spring 2006)
Kishwar Rizvi (spring 2006)
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