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304 Barnard Hall Higonnet AHIS BC2001 DRAWING STUDIO. 3.00 points. Note course is limited to 15 students with instructor's permission on t the first day of class. This course delves into drawing as an expansive, exploratory practice that underpins all forms of visual art. Designed primarily as a hands-on workshop, the class is enriched with slide lectures, video presentations, and field trips. Throughout the semester, students will engage in individual and group critiques, fostering dialogue about their work. Beginning with still life and progressing to drawings of artworks, artifacts, and figure studies, the course investigates drawing as a dynamic practice connected to a wide array of visual cultures Fall 2025: AHIS BC2001 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment

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402 Diana Center AHIS BC2005 PAINTING I. 3.00 points. This course will focus on individual and collaborative projects designed to explore the fundamental principles of image making. Students acquire a working knowledge of concepts in contemporary art through class critiques, discussion, and individual meetings with the professor. Reading materials will provide historical and philosophical background to the class assignments. Class projects will range from traditional to experimental and multi-media. Image collections will be discussed in class with an awareness of contemporary image production Fall 2025: AHIS BC2005 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment

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402 Diana Center AHIS BC2007 PAINTING III. 3.00 points. This course will focus on individual and collaborative projects designed to explore the fundamental principles of image making. Students acquire a working knowledge of concepts in contemporary art through class critiques, discussion, and individual meetings with the professor. Reading materials will provide historical and philosophical background to the class assignments. Class projects will range from traditional to experimental and multi-media. Image collections will be discussed in class with an awareness of contemporary image production Fall 2025: AHIS BC2007 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollm

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402 Diana Center AHIS BC2008 Painting II and IV. 3 points. Enrollment limited to 15 students. Instructor's permission required. Attend the first day of class. A continuation of painting I & III, open to all skill levels. Students will further develop techniques to communicate individual and collective ideas in painting. This course will focus on individual and collaborative projects designed to explore the fundamental principles of image making. Students acquire a working knowledge of traditional studio skills and related concepts in contemporary art through class critiques, discussion, and individual meetings with the professor. Reading materials will provide historical and philosophical background to the class assignments. Class projects will range from traditional to experimental and multi-media. Image collections will be discussed in class with an awareness of contemporary image production. Spring 2026: AHIS BC2008 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollm

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402 Diana Center AHIS BC2017 Cell Phone Photography: Exploring Digital Media. 3.00 points. Today’s cell phones are equipped with cameras that far surpass those used by the pioneers of digital photography, offering superior resolution and multi-sensor capabilities that revolutionize how we capture and process images. This course explores the creative and technical potential of smartphone photography, focusing on accessible tools and workflows that empower students to produce compelling digital works. The curriculum emphasizes post-production and digital media techniques over traditional camera mastery. Students will develop foundational skills in Adobe Suite applications, including Lightroom and Photoshop for photo editing and After Effects and Premiere for video production. We will also discuss the integration of artificial intelligence in modern photography, examining how AI enhances editing processes and opens new creative possibilities. A significant part of the course will address fundamental questions of light in ent photography, the use of RAW formats—offered by many smartphones but seldom understood—and the structure of digital image files. Students will also learn about post-production techniques for preparing images for print, as well as for projection or display on digital screens, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of the end-to-end digital photography workflow. Thinking Locally: Street photography serves as a central theme in this course, encouraging students to document the vibrant life of New York City through weekly assignments. A guided photo walk in Harlem will provide hands-on experience in capturing unique, candid moments. Ethical considerations will be a key focus, addressing topics like consent, privacy, and best practices for interacting with subjects. Discussions will be complemented by readings, critiques, and a guest lecture from a professional street photographer. By the end of the course, students will have transformed their understanding of smartphone photography, creating works that ent push the boundaries of accessible technology while building a strong foundation in contemporary digital media Fall 2025: AHIS BC2017 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment

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614 Schermerhorn Hall Alberro AHIS UN2601 ARTS OF JAPAN. 3.00 points. Introduction to the painting, sculpture, and architecture of Japan from the Neolithic period through the present. Discussion focuses on key monuments within their historical and cultural contexts AHIS BC2698 American Monument Cultures. 4.00 points. Cities, institutions, and impassioned individuals are pulling down statues of people implicated in the histories of slavery, colonization and violence. This class explores why monuments are important, how they have been used historically to assert political and social power and different points of view on where to go from here. The nation is caught up in a vital debate about how historical figures and events should be recorded in the public square. Spurred by protests in Charlottesville, VA in the summer of 2017 and moved forward during the uprisings against police brutality in the summer of 2020, cities, institutions and impassioned individuals are pulling down and removing statues of Confederate leaders and other individuals implicated in the histories of slavery, colonization and violence even as objections are raised to these actions from both the left and the right. This activism led to the formation of a commission to study New York City’s built environment in fall 2017 and its resolution advocating both taking down and putting up monuments here. Why are Monuments so important? How have they been used historically to assert political and social power? This course introduces the history of monument culture in the United States, focusing on monuments related to three controversial subjects: the Vietnam War, the Confederacy, and the “discovery” of America. We will study when, by whom, and in what form these monuments were erected and how artists and audiences of the past and present have responded to them. In addition to gaining historical background, students will create a podcast exploring the history and impact of a public monument in New York City. Class meetings will combine lecture and discussion and will include several guest speakers

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807 Schermerhorn Hall McKelway AHUM UN2604 ARTS OF CHINA, JAPAN AND KOREA. 3.00 points. CC/GS/SEAS: Partial Fulfillment of Global Core Requirement 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 Spring 2026: AHUM UN2604 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrol

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504 Diana Center AHIS BC2904 Arts of North America. 4.00 points. This class provides an introduction to the visual and material cultures of North America, primarily the United States, from the Colonial Period until World War II, produced by artists with a variety of cultural and social identities. Through the close visual analysis of images and objects, the careful reading of primary sources, and the strategic engagement with recent scholarship, we will study how what and who is “American” have been defined and redefined over the past three centuries. In 2024, the course will be organized into four large thematic units focusing on the relationships between visual culture and a) materials and material practices, b) a) social and political identities, c) nature and the environment, and d) cultural institutions and public spaces. Each of these themes is keyed primarily to a different historical moment, but will reach beyond those boundaries. Painters, craftspeople, sculptors and photographers discussed will include (but not be limited to) Miguel Cabrera, Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley, Thomas Cole, Lilly Martin Spencer, Harriet Powers, Rafael Aragon, Robert Duncanson, Frederick Church, Winslow Homer, Francisco Oller, Thomas Eakins, Timothy O’Sullivan, James MacNeill Whistler, Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Frida Kahlo, and Dorothea Lange. Readings draw heavily on primary sources to give students a feel for how artists and audiences described their own historical situations AHIS BC2905 Latin American Art. 4.00 points. This course introduces key issues and phenomena in the arts and visual culture of the region known as Latin America from the rise of the great Indigenous civilizations, through the Spanish conquest to the early twentieth century and the full emergence of modern nation-states. We will examine the role of art and so-called art in the heterogeneous cultures across the continent and their role in the construction of its diverse regional identities and their attendant historical narratives, including the incorporation of Pre-Columbian and folk cultures. We will discuss the tensions between religious and secular, imperial, proto-nationalist, and nationalist visions for the function of arts and culture in its various regions. Finally, we will pay special attention to the representations of race, ethnicity, class, and gender, and their role in the Latin American identities’ formation. By the first-hand interaction with the art objects available in NYC art collections, during class visits and individually, and using knowledge and concepts acquired in class, you will develop confidence in analyzing and interpreting artworks in both oral and written form, and contextualizing them in relation to existing scholarly discourses. Working in two-person teams, you will also become fluent in using libraries, archives, digital collections, and image repositories to create a proposal for an exhibition of art from Latin America on the subject of llment your choice. By paying special attention to the issues of methodology, this course serves as a springboard to further in-depth study of Latin 0 American or other, non-US an non-European art forms, as well as the Chicano/Latinx cultural production within the current U.S. territory and beyond AHIS BC2990 Sculpting in Time. 4.00 points. This is an introductory course in time-based arts: video, sound, and performance, understood through the language of both short and long cinematic forms. We'll start with an in-depth study of the life and work of Soviet filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky (1932-1986), whose art has a unique sense of time, driven by the unknown, the immaterial, and the spiritual. This class is for artists who want to construct their own sense of time, punctuation, and duration, as well as those looking to discover the visual and audio aesthetics of their generation. How does a feeling become an image, and what sound does it make? What are our media aesthetics and skins? Is there a way to address the optical beyond the eye and engage what we currently consider secondary senses, take our bodies back? Our collective task is to construct a camera (both a room and an apparatus) that captures both aural and visual images, creating a sonorous space where we can encounter ourselves in our own time. No prior knowledge of any medium is required. Not for the faint of heart Fall 2025: AHIS BC2990 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment

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501 Diana Center AHIS BC3003 SUPERVISED PROJ PHOTOGRAPHY. 4.00 points. In this course, you will conduct independent projects in photography in a structured setting under faculty supervision. You are responsible for arranging for your photographic equipment in consultation with the instructor. This course will afford you a framework in which to intensively develop a coherent body of photographs, critique this work with your classmates, and correlate your goals with recent issues in contemporary photography. Students are required to enroll in an additional fifteen contact hours of instruction at the International Center for Photography. Courses range from one-day workshops to full-semester courses. Permission of instructor only. The class will be limited to 20 students Spring 2026: AHIS BC3003 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollmen

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501 Diana Center Barnard College Catalogue 2025-2026 105 AHIS BC3004 Photographing the Anthropocene. 4.00 points. How have artists been informed and influenced by the natural world? This course will examine how photographic artists have responded to nature, ecology, and the environment. Augmented by literary texts by artists, scientists, poets, and ecologists, we will explore how close-looking might inform an artist’s practice regarding the living environment - its bounty - and its degradation. Readings include texts by Robin Wall Kimmerer, Masanobu Fukuoka, Robert Macfarlane, Terry Tempest Williams, Rebecca Solnit, Barry Lopez, John McPhee, Akira Hasegawa, and others. Calling on a canon of photographic works from around the globe, students will study book-length photographic essays whose makers have seen art as a form of praise of the natural world and those who investigate the relationship between art and t environmental activism. Susan Derges; Meghann Riepenhoff; Masahisa Fukashe; Pedro David; Stephen Gill; Ron Jude; Dornith Doherty; David Maisel, Zhao Renhui; Mandy Barker; Pablo Lopez Luz are some of the artists studied. The course will start by exploring techniques photographers have used over the past two centuries to respond to the natural world’s beauty and complexity. During the second half of the term, we will examine how artists have depicted shrinking natural landscapes, environmental destruction, and global warming and why they might question human centrality in the sentient world. Students will produce a semester-long photographic project on an ecological theme. This course will start by exploring techniques photographers have used over the past century to respond to the natural world’s beauty and complexity. During the second half of the term, we will examine how contemporary photographers are depicting shrinking natural landscapes, environmental destruction, and global warming and why some artists are beginning to question human centrality in the sentient world t Spring 2026: AHIS BC3004 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment

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613 Milstein Center AHIS BC3031 IMAGERY AND FORM IN THE ARTS. 4.00 points. Enrollment limited to 15 students. Instructor's permission required. Attend the first day of class. Application not required. 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 Spring 2026: AHIS BC3031 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment

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504 Diana Center AHIS BC3530 ADVANCED SENIOR STUDIO I. 4.00 points. instructor. An interpretive study of the theoretical and critical issues in visual art. Projects that are modeled after major movements in contemporary art will be executed in the studio. Each student develops an original body of artwork and participates in group discussions of the assigned readings. For further info visit: https://arthistory.barnard.edu/ senior-thesis-project-art-history-and-visual-arts-majors Fall 2025: AHIS BC3530 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment

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806 Schermerhorn Hall AHIS GU4042 AFR AMER ARTISTS IN 20/21 CENT. 3.00 points. This course is a survey of visual production by North Americans of African descent from 1900 to the present. It will look at the various ways in which these artists have sought to develop an African American presence in the visual arts over the last century. We will discuss such issues as: what role does stylistic concern play; how are ideas of romanticism, modernism, and formalism incorporated into the work; in what ways do issues of postmodernism, feminism, and cultural nationalism impact on the methods used to portray the cultural and political body that is African America? There will be four guest lectures for this class; all will be held via zoom llment

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328 Milbank Hall Barnard College Catalogue 2025-2026 107 AHIS BC3626 IN AND AROUND ABSTRACT EXPRESSIONISM. 4.00 points. This course focuses on the history of modern art in the mid-twentieth century. To place mid-twentieth century modernism within its proper historical context, we will explore artistic practices elaborated between the 1920s and the 1960s in a wide range of different locations. We will also survey the major critical and historical accounts of modernism in the arts during these years. The course will first introduce the development of modernism, anti-modernism and avant-gardism in the period between the two World Wars, exploring the changing relationship between these cultural formations in Europe, the U.S.S.R., Mexico, and North America. The second part of the course will study the vicissitudes of modernism and avant-gardism in Europe, Latin America, and the U.S. during the 1930s and 1940s that led to the formation of Concrete art in Europe and Abstract Expressionism and the New York School in the United States. The third part of the course will examine the challenges to modernism and the reformulation of avant-gardism posed by the neo-avant-garde in North America, South America, Europe and Japan in the 1950s and early 1960s. The course will address a wide range of historical and methodological questions and problems. These include: the challenges to the idea of artistic autonomy, the evolving concept of avant-gardism, the ongoing problematic of abstraction, the formal principles of serialism and the grid, the logic of non-composition, the persistence of figuration, the changing role of cultural institutions, the impact of new technologies on cultural production, and the emergence of new audiences and patrons for art AHIS BC3642 NORTH AMERICAN ART AND CULTURE. 3.00 points. AHIS BC3666 DEATH DRIVE 3000. 4.00 points. “The aim of all life is death,” Sigmund Freud’s historic words do not lment appear strange today. Under siege of the perpetual breaking news cycle, the apocalypse is easy to imagine. Will it be an asteroid, a zombie virus or an all out nuclear war? Death Drive 3000 returns to the inanimate. Through a variety of reading, writing and making projects, this seminar studies the implications of our unbound and limitless death drive. Can any viable futures be located under the regimes of such imagination, futures that do not involve disposing of ourselves? From de Sade to Malabou to Clausewitz, topics include: primary nature, partial objects, necrosodomy, dismemberment, omophagia, suicide pacts, plagues, holocausts, total war and other symptoms of our collective end. Not for the faint of heart AHIS BC3667 CLOTHING. 4.00 points. Human beings create second, social, skins for themselves. Everyone designs interfaces between their bodies and the world around them. From pre-historic ornaments to global industry, clothing has always been a crucial feature of people’s survival, desires, and identity. This course studies clothing from the perspectives of anthropology, architecture, art, craft, economics, labor, law, psychology, semiotics, sociology, and sustainability. Issues include gender roles, local traditions, world-wide trade patterns, dress codes, the history of European fashion, dissident or disruptive styles, and the environmental consequences of what we wear today Fall 2025: AHIS BC3667 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment

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304 Barnard Hall Higonnet

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402 Diana Center AHIS BC3844 Revolution and Art. 4.00 points. In 1789, a French revolution shook the government foundation of Europe, and with it, all the arts. The principles of monarchy were rejected, women gained unprecedented freedoms, and French slavery was abolished. How did the arts express those upheavals? By 1805, areaction against the Revolution. An emperor crowned himself, women’s rights were revoked slavery was reinstated. How did the arts deal with this backlash? AHIS BC3846 Designing Design II. 4.00 points. The way an environment is made remains deeply embedded within it. Our environments shape us like our families, they nourish and educate us, they prejudice us. What if they were not a given? If our relationship to them was something we choose and shape, less of a blood relation, more of a lifelong friendship? A friend is an equal with their own agency and act as, a partner in play and life. Friendship is a place where we interact, welcome each-other and make the world together. The common task of this class is to devise a studio for making living environments to study how we could make, exhibit and live with art. Through a variety of individual and group readings and assignments, in-class case-studies and interviews we will test our preconceptions of space and time so that we may experience and inspire the state of being present. We will study and practice presence to form intimate bonds with interior, exterior, bodily and narrative environments already in existence and of our own making Barnard College Catalogue 2025-2026 109 AHIS BC3851 What is Art For?. 4.00 points. Does art matter? How does it think of people and things, materials and minerals, the dead and the living? Can anything be art? Is art a part of life? Can it love? Can it bring change? Should it? Who can make art? Who is art for? Should art be public? Should art be free? How should art be traded? What desires should it power? How is art related to politics? Are they immediate family or distant cousins? Where and how does art live? How do artists live? What do artists want? What do we want from artists? What is art for? This seminar returns to the basics. During the COVID pandemic, the time of retreat, we embrace the opportunity to rethink our values. Our course is a stadium for posing vital questions about art from the diverse perspectives of five practicing artists. They are our weekly guests whose life and wisdom finds form in the act of making. In this class we read, write, debate and work toward understanding and putting to use the boundless resourcefulness of art AHIS BC3853 Exhibiting Modern Inuit Sculpture. 4.00 points. In this seminar, students will create a digital exhibition of ten stone sculptures produced by Inuit artists working within an important artistic tradition interconnected with Indigenous-Settler interaction during the second half of the twentieth century. Initially cultivated to bring Inuit people into the cash economy as part of a broader colonial process of disrupting seasonal migrations and subsistence lifeways, modern Inuit sculpture has developed in ways that increasingly center community leadership and assertions of artistic and cultural sovereignty in the face of environmental, economic, political and aesthetic change. The assignments for this class foreground writings, films, and artworks by Inuit scholars, artists, and community leaders. In preparation of the exhibition, we will and also work closely with the Brooklyn Museum staff to gain an understanding of their collection of Inuit sculpture and the staff roles in caring for it llment AHIS BC3864 Signals: Networks, Publics, and Performance. 4.00 points. This visual arts seminar explores the pirating, transformation, and circulation of media from the 1960s to the present. It examines the ways that media artists question public participation, democratic commitment, and collective memory. During the 1960s in the United States and abroad, the promise of networked communication prompted a consideration of global connectivity that brought artists and artworks outside of the gallery into the public sphere. Artist, often activists, explored the dissemination of information, and they commandeered messaging. Many of these artists positioned their output against mainstream media, while other artists seized existing media streams with the aim, optimistically, to alter them. Case studies include Stan VanDerBeek, Dara Birnbaum, Black Audio Collective, Tiffany Sia, Sondra Perry, and CAMP. This course brings together seminar discussions, the practice of making, and the hosting of practitioners; it is designed to offer students an introduction to various aspects of media as it is crafted and curated within and without museum environments Spring 2026: AHIS BC3864 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment

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402 Diana Center AHIS BC3868 Tokyo. 4.00 points. This seminar will take an interdisciplinary approach to the history of the complex and dynamic city of Tokyo from the mid-19th century to the present. The class will discuss the impact that industrialization and sustained migration have had on the city’s housing and infrastructure and will examine the often equivocal and incomplete urban planning projects that have attempted to address these changes from the Ginza Brick Town of the 1870s, to the reconstruction efforts after the Great Kanto Earthquake. We will examine the impact of and response to natural disasters and war. We will discuss the emergence of so-called “new town” suburban developments since the 1960s and the ways in which these new urban forms reshaped daily life. We will discuss the bucolic prints of the 1910s through the 1930s that obscured the crowding, pollution and political violence and compare them with the more politically engaged prints and journalistic photographs of the era. We will also consider the apocalyptic imagery that is so pervasive in the treatment of Tokyo in post-war film and anime. There are no prerequisites, but coursework in modern art history, urban studies, and modern Japanese history are highly recommended Spring 2026: AHIS BC3868 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment

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402 Diana Center Barnard College Catalogue 2025-2026 111 AHIS BC3959 SENIOR RESEARCH SEMINAR. 3.00 points. 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 Fall 2025: AHIS BC3959 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment

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Course open to Barnard Art History majors only.

306 Milbank Hall AHIS BC3969 Art/Criticism II. 4 points. BC: Fulfillment of General Education Requirement: The Visual and Performing Arts (ART). Course Limited to 15 Students with Instructor's Permission. Application due 11/13/15. Go to the BC AH website for more information and to download an application. www.barnard.edu/arthist This course is a seminar on contemporary art criticism written by artists in the post war period. Such criticism differs from academic criticism because it construes art production less as a discrete object of study than as a point of engagement. It also differs from journalistic criticism because it is less obliged to report art market activity and more concerned with polemics. Artists will include Ad Reinhart, Daniel Buren, Helio Oiticica, Juan Downey, Hollis Frampton, Victor Burgin, Jeff Wall, Mike Kelley, Coco Fusco, Maria Eichhorn, Jutta Koether, Melanie Gilligan. AHIS BC3970 METHODS # THEORIES OF ART HIST. 4.00 points. limited only to Barnard Art History majors. 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 Fall 2025: AHIS BC3970 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment

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Barnard Art History Major Requirement. Enrollment

501 Diana Center AHIS 3970 002/00456 Th 4:10pm - 6:00pm Alexander 4.00 14/25 501 Diana Center Alberro AHIS BC3971 Rococco and It's Revivials. 4 points. Not offered during 2024-2025 academic year. The useful arts of eighteenth-century France – furniture, interior decoration, clothing etc.. -- have always been considered among the masterpieces of decorative arts history. A revolution in scholarship has made it possible to understand how these objects inaugurated some of modernity’s key values: individualism, private home life, consumer culture, women’s involvement in the arts, global capitalism, and an orientalist fascination with the Near and Far Easts. Several class sessions will take place in the great decorative arts galleries of the Metropolitan Museum and the Frick Collection, where students will give presentations on individual objects. AHIS BC3976 JAPANESE PHOTOGRAPHY. 4.00 points. This course will examine the history of Japanese photography from the middle of the 19th century to the present. The class will be organized both chronologically and thematically. Throughout its history, photography has been an especially powerful medium for addressing the most challenging issues facing Japanese society. Among the topics under discussion will be: tourist photography and the representation of women within that genre in the late 19th century, the politics of propaganda photography, the construction of Japanese cultural identity through the representation of “tradition” in photography, and the interest in marginalized urban subcultures lment in the photography of the 1960s and 1970s. Although the course will be focused on Japan, the class will read from the literature on photography elsewhere in order to situate Japanese work within a broader context AHIS BC3984 CURATORIAL POSTNS 1969-PRES. 4.00 points. Contemporary exhibitions studied through a selection of great shows from roughly 1969 to the present that defined a generation. This course will not offer practical training in curating; rather it will concentrate on the historical context of exhibitions, the theoretical basis for their argument, the criteria for the choice in artists and their work, and exhibitions internal/external reception Fall 2025: AHIS BC3984 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrollment

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501 Diana Center Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures 321 Milbank Hall 212-854-5417 amec.barnard.edu Department Assistant: Mary Missirian

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807 Schermerhorn Hall Barnard College Catalogue 2025-2026 479 AHIS GU4027 Architecture in Western Europe 1066-1399. 3.00 points. This course explores architecture in Western Europe during the Middle Ages. The time frame starts with the conquest of England in 1066 and ends with the appointment of Gothic experts in 1399 to advise on the construction of Milan Cathedral towards the end of the Middle Ages. The first historical event coincides with the creation of architecture of a bewildering scale while the second reflects the end of building without architectural treatises or architectural theory - in a modern sense. The course will also introduce students to new digital technologies such as laser scanning and photogrammetry for the study of medieval architecture. No preliminary knowledge of medieval history or architectural history is needed, and no knowledge of digital technologies or specific computer skills is expected. The monuments selected belong to a period that starts when architecture moved away from Roman antique models and ends just before the re-adoption of Classical standards in the Renaissance. In this course the originality of medieval architecture, its relationship with earlier and later monuments, and the dramatic effort involved in its creation will be discussed. Major themes of medieval society such as pilgrimages, crusades, piety, the cult of relics, and the social and intellectual context of the Middle Ages are also part of this lecture. In the first weeks, important concepts of medieval society and its architecture will be presented in combination with a number of new technologies recently adopted in the field. These introductory classes will offer the foundations needed to understand artistic and architectural developments in the Middle Ages. While the course will focus on architecture, different media are included when they provide valuable information on the artistic and cultural context to which buildings belong. New technologies serve as a basis for a critical discussion about the changes in method introduced by new media and technologies in the field of architectural history AHIS GU4031 Art of Italy: 1300-1520. 3.00 points. This course is a survey of the art of Italy from the early fourteenth century until the onset of the Reformation. It will cover the major artists and cultural centers of the peninsula, examining them in the context of broader artistic currents and conventions of the period. Special attention will be paid to the social, political, and historical factors llment that led to changes in the visual arts as well as the impact of cultures 5 beyond classical antiquity on the form and iconography of paintings and sculptures in the Early Renaissance. The lectures will provide students with a deeper understanding of the canonical works of Italian artists from Cimabue and Giotto to Leonardo da Vinci and Giovanni Bellini, of the development of new criteria for assessing the visual arts, of the relationship between artists, patrons, and audiences in the period. The readings, in turn, will familiarize them with key primary sources of the fourteenth and fifteenth century, as well as the writings of distinguished Renaissance scholars from the nineteenth century until the present

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807 Schermerhorn Hall Kaligotla CPLS GU4111 World Philology. 4 points. CC/GS/SEAS: Partial Fulfillment of Global Core Requirement Philology, broadly defined as the practice of making sense of texts, is a fundamental human activity that has been repeatedly institutionalized in widely separated places and times. In the wake of the formation of the modern academic disciplines in the nineteenth century and their global spread, it became difficult to understand the power and glory of older western philology, and its striking parallels with other pre- and early modern forms of scholarship around the globe. This class seeks to create a new comparative framework for understanding how earlier generations made sense of the texts that they valued, and how their practices provide still-vital models for us at a time of upheaval in the format and media of texts and in our scholarly approaches to them. Students will encounter key fields of philology—textual criticism, lexicography, grammar, and, above all, commentary—not in the abstract but as instantiated in relation to four foundational works— llment the Confucian Analects, the Rāmāya#a of Vālmīki, the Aeneid, and the Tale of Genji—and the scholarly traditions that grew up around them. 3 We are never alone when we grapple with the basic question of how to read texts whose meaning is unclear to us. Over the course of the semester, this class will foster a global understanding of the deep roots and strange parallels linking contemporary reading and interpretation to the practices of the past. RELI GU4228 South Asia and the Secular. 4 points. This seminar explores different contestations and inflections of the secular in South Asia.We will begin by tracing a genealogy of the secular, which gave rise to a particular discursive grammar. Grounding ourselves in this formative space of the secular, we will study the constitutive nature of imperialism within the secular by examining the disciplining and conscripting role of Orientalism and the colonial state. Though noting these changes produced by colonial rule, this course also explores the arguments scholars of South Asia have made distinguishing between “secularisms” and the production of a tolerant and cosmopolitan South Asian orientation. In conjunction and against llment these possibilities, rather than consider the religious retrograde or 0 communal, we will consider the continual striving toward political autonomy through disputation in the parameters of a given tradition —which resist incorporation into a broader pluralist or syncretic Indic model. RELI GU4304 Krishna. 4 points. CC/GS/SEAS: Partial Fulfillment of Global Core Requirement Study of a single deity in the Hindu pantheon as illuminated in art, music, dance, drama, theological treatises, patterns of ritual, and texts both classic and modern. Special attention to Krishna's consort Radha, to Krishna's reception in the West, and to his portrayal on Indian television.

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807 Schermerhorn Hall Reynolds EAAS GU4122 Japanese New Wave and Cinematic Modernism. 4 points. This course will delve into an analytical reconsideration of postwar Japanese cinema specifically from the perspective of the Japanese New Wave. While we will aim to capture the exhilaration of the Japanese New Wave by closely analyzing existing studies on some of its key makers and their works, special attention will be given to what is left out of the category as it is conventionally understood, drawing on marginalized works and genres, such as educational and industrial films as well as pink films. Spring 2026: EAAS GU4122 Course Section/Call Times/Location Instructor Points Enrol

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806 Schermerhorn Hall

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2025-2026

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