91522

ARTH 101 Perspectives in World Art

Diana DePardo-Minsky

M . W . .

3:10 -4:30 pm

OLIN 102

AART

Perspectives in World Art introduces the diversity of the visual arts worldwide over the course of two semesters. Students may take either semester or both. The first semester examines painting, sculpture, architecture, and other artifacts from the Paleolithic period through the 14th century. Works from Europe, Asia, Africa, and the Americas are studied chronologically to create an integrated historical context. Readings from various critical perspectives present different methodological approaches. Requirements include two papers, a mid-term, a final, and quizzes. This course fulfills one requirement for moderating into Art History; potential majors are urged to take Perspectives prior to other Art History classes. Open to all students. Class size: 25

 

91514

ARTH 113 History of Photography

Laurie Dahlberg

. T . Th .

8:30 -9:50 am

PRE 110

AART

Cross-listed: Science, Technology & Society The first complete photographic process was announced in 1839, and immediately launched a maelstrom of public interest and intense competition. Born of experiments in art and science, the medium possesses a uniquely intimate relation to reality, a unique condition that made it as appealing to artists as to criminologists, engineers, pornographers, zoologists, and everyone in between. This survey of the history of photography from its earliest manifestations to the 1990s considers the mediums applications as art, science, commerce, historical record, and document. This course is open to all students and is the prerequisite for many other courses in the history of photography. Classwork includes two papers and two exams. Class size: 25

 

91775

ARTH 121 Medieval Art and Architecture: From the Romanesque to Gothic

Betsy Chunko

M . W . .

11:50 1:10 pm

PRE 110

AART

Cross-listed: Medieval Studies This course examines the art and architecture of the late-medieval world, with a focus on sites in France, England, and Italy. Particular attention will be paid to the intellectual, social, and cultural underpinnings of the late 12th to the early 14th centuries to reveal how myriad factors--including spiritual beliefs, political aspirations, and dynamic social tensions--inspired and determined the evolution of Cathedral design. Open to all students. Class size: 25

 

91517

ARTH 125 Modern Architecture

Noah Chasin

. T . Th .

1:30 -2:50 pm

RKC 102

AART

Cross-listed: Environmental & Urban Studies This course will address the history of modern architecture from its emergence in Western Europe during the eighteenth century through to its widespread presence and diversification by the end of World War II. The course will pay particular attention to the ways in which architects have responded to, and participated in, formal and aesthetic developments in other arts, as well as the role of architecture in broader technological, economic, and social-political transformations. Covering many aspects of architecturefrom buildings, drawings, models, exhibitions, and schools, to historical and theoretical writings and manifestoeswe will investigate a range of modernist practices, polemics, and institutions. The readings, both primary and secondary texts, have been selected both to provide an overview of the history of modern architecture and to offer a number of critical and historical approaches to evaluating its legacy. Figures discussed include Schinkel, Paxton, Sullivan, Wright, Oud, Corbusier, Mies, and Aalto. Requirements include two short written assignments, a midterm, and a final exam. No prerequisites. Class size: 24

 

91520

ARTH 130 Introduction to Visual Culture

Julia Rosenbaum

M . W . .

1:30 -2:50 pm

FISHER ANNEX

AART

Looking isnt as easy as it looks Ad Reinhardt, early 20thc. artist

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray, chapter 2

This course constitutes an introduction to the discipline of art history and to visual artifacts more broadly defined. It teaches students to look at, think about, and analyze or interpret visual material. We will focus on different types of visual texts, from monuments to media advertising, considering how they communicate through style, medium, or genre, and how the visual can convey meaning, whether political, personal, or social. Thinking about images goes hand in hand with writing about them. The short writing assignments and the essays that you will work on over the semester are designed to strengthen your interpretative skills and help you become a persuasive and effective writer and observer. Class size: 17

 

91523

ARTH 227 Roman Urbanism

Diana DePardo-Minsky

. T . Th .

4:40 -6:00 pm

OLIN 102

AART

Cross-listed: Classical, Italian, and Environmental & Urban Studies Politicians and popes from the citys founder (Romulus) to recent governments (including Francesco Rutelli, former mayor of Rome) conscious of the historic significance of urban topography and architectural type, have crafted Rome into a capital that expresses their ideological aims. This class focuses on the commissioning of large-scale representational architecture, the creation of public space, and the orchestration of streets at seven sites in continuous use since antiquity. By charting the chronological development of these sites, the class examines the ongoing dialogue between the past and present in Rome. Ideally, students should come to the class with some knowledge of either the art, architecture, or politics of Rome during some period of its history. Requirements include critical essays, quizzes, and class presentations. This class counts towards the 1400-1800 requirement in Art History. Completion of this class qualifies as a prerequisite for Roma in situ (ARTH 248), taught during January in Rome and in the Spring at Bard. Class size: 22

 

91545

FILM 230 Film Among the Arts

Richard Suchenski

Screening:

. . W . .

. T . . .

1:30 -4:30 pm

7:00 - 10:00 pm

AVERY 110

AVERY 110

AART

See Film section for description.

 

91521

ARTH 241 Art and Exploration in American Culture

Julia Rosenbaum

. T . Th .

3:10 -4:30 pm

OLIN 102

AART

Cross-Listed: American Studies; Science, Technology, and Society Exploration characterizes much of American history, and this course focuses on the artwork emerging from the expeditions and explorations of these new lands and peoples. It begins with the European discovery of the continent in the fifteenth century, concentrates on the manifold nineteenth-century expeditions sponsored by American private and public groups to the west, south, and north of America, as well as to the Arctic, and concludes with twentieth-century space travel.  Visions of these new worlds are captured in a compelling record of paintings, drawings, photographs, and collections of artifacts. We explore that visual record and the use of the visual in understanding and making sense of the unfamiliar, the new, and the different. Topics to be addressed include: mapping and the imagining of new worlds; the relationship of art and science, attitudes about nature and about native peoples and the implications of colonization and conquest; the  role of different media; display and national identity. The class is a combination of lecture and discussion, and each student will do an exploration project. Open to all students.

Class size: 22

 

91781

ARTH 243 Out of Bounds: The Margins

of Medieval Art

Betsy Chunko

M . W . .

3:10 4:30 pm

FISHER ANNEX

AART

Cross-listed: Medieval Studies The border regions of medieval artistic accomplishments were areas of play and perversity. Numerous images--from, for instance, sculptural details, woodcarvings, and manuscripts--appear secular in nature; yet scholars have struggled to explain how and why these were considered appropriate for sacred contexts by medieval people. This course will trace myriad reactions to the Gothic margin in order to broach the

larger question of what it meant to be a viewer in the later Middle Ages. Open to all students. Class size: 22

 

91515

ARTH 247 Photography since 1950

Laurie Dahlberg

. T . Th .

11:50 -1:10 pm

FISHER ANNEX

AART

Cross listed: Photography; Human Rights; Science, Technology & Society In the decades after World War II, photographys social and artistic roles changed in many ways. The 1950s saw the dominance of magazine photography in Life and Look and witnessed the birth of a more personal photographic culture, exemplified by Robert Franks book The Americans. In the 1960s and 1970s, photographers such as Diane Arbus, Garry Winogrand, and Lee Friedlander created a new view of contemporary life from moments gathered in the streets and from private lives. Beginning in the late 70s, artists trained outside of traditional photography began to employ the camera for wholly different purposes, using photography to pose ideological questions about images and image-making in a media-saturated culture. Today, the transformation of photography through digital technology has again thrown the meaning(s) of photographically-derived images into question. This lecture/discussion class will cover the historical context of this period and tease out fundamental issues of photography and its ostensible nature and the politics of representation. Student performance will be evaluated in class discussion, exams, and papers. No prerequisites, but preference will be given to moderated photography and moderated art history students.

Class size: 22

 

91518

ARTH 259 Sustainable Urbanism

Noah Chasin

. T . Th .

11:50 -1:10 pm

RKC 102

AART

Cross-listed: Environmental & Urban Studies, Human Rights, Science, Technology, & Society Some consider the phrase Sustainable Urbanism to be an oxymoron, yet the worlds urban population is growing at an unprecedented rate, and the worlds cities are currently incapable of withstanding the growth. Is it possible to retrofit existing cities to conform to a workable ethos of sustainability? What sorts of measures might urban designers and planners take to ensure that new cities embody the basic tenets of sustainable growth? Students in the course will contemplate these questions historically, theoretically, and in terms of platforms for innovation and action. Issues to be discussed include density, transportation, infrastructure, environmental justice, place-making, energy, LEED certification, Smart Growth, self-organized/ad hoc urban design, and interconnectedness. Readings will include Lewis Mumford, Ant Farm, Douglas Farr, Patrick Geddes, Tunnard and Pushkarev, Timothy Beatley, and Kent Portney. Priority given to students concentrating in Environmental and Urban Studies, Art History, and Human Rights. Class size: 22

 

91525

ARTH 262 German and Austrian Expressionism

Tom Wolf

. . W Th .

11:50 -1:10 pm

OLIN 102

AART

This course focuses on German and Austrian art of the 20th century, with brief forays into Scandinavian and Austrian art. The emphasis is on art in Germany from Jugendstil through expressionism, dadaism, Neue Sachlichkeit, nazi and concentration camp art, and post-World War II developments. Artists studied include Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, and Egon Schiele. The course concludes with an investigation of how more recent artists such as Joseph Beuys, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Sigmar Polke, and Gerhard Richter connect to previous German artistic tendencies.

Class size: 22

 

91383

PHIL 290 Art & Politics: Art, Philosophy,

and Democratic Culture

Norton Batkin

M . W . .

1:30 -2:50 pm

OLIN 205

HUM

See Philosophy section for description.

 

91590

ARTH 295 The Arts of India

Patricia Karetzky

. . W . .

1:30 -3:50 pm

PRE 110

AART

Cross-listed: Asian Studies Beginning with the most ancient urban civilization, dating to the prehistoric period, the flowering and development of Indian philosophical and religious thought is traced through its expression in the arts, including the cultures unique exploitation of the sensuous as a metaphor for divinity. Its evolution of an iconic tradition is studied, as are its development of religious architectural forms, narrative painting, and sculpture.

Class size: 25

 

91546

FILM 331 In the Archive

Peggy Ahwesh

Screening:

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. . W . .

1:30 -4:30 pm

5:00 -7:00 pm

AVERY 217

AVERY 217

AART

Cross-listed: Art History

 

91526

ARTH 340 Seminar in Contemporary Art

Tom Wolf

. . . Th .

1:30 -3:50 pm

FISHER ANNEX

AART

A consideration of the history of recent art, beginning with a short survey of the minimalism of the 1960s and then focusing on subsequent artistic developments through the early 21st century.  The class meets in New York City every fourth week to view current exhibitions.   Students give presentations about selected artists and topics to the class. Class size: 15

 

91674

ARTH / THTR 343B Latino Theater and Performance

Jorge Cortinas

. . W. . .

1:30 3:50 pm

FISHER PAC

AART

See Theater section for description.

 

91519

ARTH 378 Contemporary Issues in Architecture and Urban Theory

Noah Chasin

. . . . F

10:10 - 12:30 pm

FISHER ANNEX

AART

Cross-listed: Environmental & Urban Studies An investigation of new lines of inquiry that have informed contemporary scholarship in the history and theory of architecture. The class examines how, through new research and methodological approaches, the conceptual parameters of architectural history have been expanded; canonical figures and their works have been recast in distinct terms; and overlooked or understudied architects, practices, and projects have opened up new problematics. Students look at how, in response to such challenges, new forms of architectural practice and new ideas of spatiality have emerged. Topics include theories of domesticity; theories of urbanism and spatial politics; history and memory; sexuality and space; architecture and cinema; architecture, fashion, and branding, globalization and identity; and the emergence of information space: the digital and the virtual. Prerequisite: permission of the instructor. Class size: 15

 

91516

ARTH 385 Art Criticism and Methodology

Laurie Dahlberg

. . W . .

10:10 - 12:30 pm

FISHER ANNEX

AART

This seminar, designed primarily for art history majors, helps students develop the ability to think critically about a range of different approaches to the field of art history. Students read and discuss a variety of texts in order to become familiar with the disciplines development. Methodologies such as connoisseurship, cultural history, Marxism, feminism, and post-modernism are analyzed. Class size: 15