Architecture | Non-Western | Ancient | Medieval | Renaissance-Baroque | Modern
BC1001x-1002y. Introduction to the history of art. 4 pts. x: K. Moxey, MW 1:10-2:25. y: M. Werth, MW 1:10-2:25. Either term may be taken separately. A 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 respective cultural environments. BC1001: Greek and Roman art; medieval art. BC1002: Renaissance to modern art.
F1121x. Masterpieces of Western art. 3 pts. The staff. Sec. 1: MW 2:40-3:55; sec. 2: MW 2:40-3:55; sec. 3: MW 4:10-5:25; sec. 4: MW 4:10-5:25; sec. 5: TuTh 4:10-5:25 evening; sec. 6: TuTh 6:10-7:25. Enrollment limited. Not a historical survey but an analytical study of such masterpieces as the Parthenon, the Gothic cathedral, and works of Michelangelo, Brueghel, and Picasso. Its chief purpose is to acquaint students with the experience of a work of art. Tests and papers on original objects in the New York area.
Architecture
C3001x. Introduction to architecture. 3 pts. J. Connors. TuTh
4:10-5:25. Undergraduate enrollment requires registration in a
discussion section, C3011x: secs 1-4. Hours to be arranged.
Architecture analyzed through in-depth case studies of major monuments
of sacred, public, and domestic space, from the pantheon and hagia
sophia to falling water and the Guggenheim. Fulfills requirement
for architectural history/theory distribution requirement, but
it is also open to students wanting a general humanistic approach
to architecture and its history.
W3645x. Twentieth century architecture and city planning. 3 pts. B. Bergdoll. MW 4:10-5:25. Major movements, figures, and theoretical positions in European and American architecture since 1890 in Erope and America. Attention to the influential urban proposals of Wright, le Corbusier, Hilbesheimer, Ciam, Archigram, the metabolists, and Venturi and Scott Brown.
W4443x. Baroque and roccoco architecture, 1600-1750. H. Ballon. TuTh 4:10-5:25. A survey of architecture, theory, city planning, and landscape design in relation to political and cultural developments across europe, focusing on london, paris, amsterdam, munich, turin, rome and prague and on the work of Wren, Hawksmoor, Mansart, le Notre, Borromini, Bernini, Neumann, and the Dietzenhoffers.
W4590x. Nineteenth-century French architecture. 3 pts. R. Middleton. Th 2:10-4. The reductionist ideals of the eighteenth century served to focus concerns with geometrical clarity or structural finesse. Architecture became strereotyped. In an attempt to reinvigorate the art, a series of architects sought a renewal through a reassessment of historical traditions and an expression of social concerns. The themes are investigated in the work of Rondelet, Hittorff, Gilbert, Labrouste, Duc, Vaudoyer, Garnier and Viollet-le-Duc.
Non-Western
V3080x. Pre-Columbian art and architecture. 3 pts. E. Pasztory.
TuTh 2:40-3:55. Survey of the pre-hispanic art of mesoamerica,
Central America, and the Andean region from the earliest times
to the Spanish conquest.
V3201y. The arts of China. 3 pts. R. Harrist. TuTh 4:10-5:25. An 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.
Asian Humanities-Art History V3340x or y. Masterpieces of the art of China, Japan, and Korea. 3 pts. D. Delbanco. x: MW 11-12:15. y: MW 1:10-2:25. An introduction to the distinctive aesthetic traditions of China, Japan, and Korea--their similarites and differences--through an examination of the visual and cultural significance of selected works from various genres. this course consists of two lectures per week along with a discussion section. a survey of masterpieces of painting, sculpture, architecture, and other arts in relation to the history, culture, and religions of East Asia. Two museum sessions.
Asian Humanities-Art History V3342xy. Masterpieces of Islamic and Indian art. Instructor to be announced. TuTh 9:10-10:25. Analysis and discussion of the significance of selected works of art and architecture of Islam and Buddhist and Hindu India.
W4076x. Arts of sub-saharan Africa. Z. Strother. MW 10:35-11:50. Survey of the arts of sub-Saharan Africa.
Ancient
V3248x. Greek art and architecture. 3 pts. R. Brilliant.
TuTh 2:40-3:55. The principal monuments and themes of greek art
in sculpture, painting, architecture, and city planning, from
the dark ages to the roman conquest.
V3250y. Roman art and architecture. 3 pts. N. Kampen. TuTh 2:40-3:55. The architecture, sculpture, and painting of ancient rome from the 2nd century b.c. to the end of the empire in the west.
Medieval
BC3351x. Early Christian and medieval art. 3 pts. J. Rosenthal.
MW 2:40-3:55. The origins of Christian art and architecture
before constantine and the subsequent development of architecture,
sculpture, and painting under the patronage of church and state
in western Europe from the 4th through the 11th century.
W4200x. Byzantine art. T. Dale. 3 pts. TuTh 10:35-11:50.
W4320y. Death in medieval art. T. Dale. Th 4:10-6.
W4315y. Ideology in the Middle Ages. 3 pts. J. Rosenthal. MW 4:10-5:25.. The development of medieval art in the Germanic kingdoms of western Europe from the mid-7th century to the end of the Carolingian empire.
Renaissance-Baroque
W3420x. Italian Renaissance sculpture. 3 pts. J. Beck. MW
4:10-5:25 A survey of the principal renaissance sculptors
operating in Italy, including Jacopo della Quercia, Donatello,
Ghiberti, Desiderio da Settignano, Niccolo dell' Arca, Verrocchio
and Michelangelo, with an introduction to the early masters including
Nicola and Giovanni Pisano.
V3437y. Italian Renaissance painting: 16th century. 3 pts. D. Rosand. MW 10:35-11:50. The styles and significance of painting in Italy with discussion of the concepts of High renaissance and mannerism. Emphasis on the major figures in Rome, Florence, and Venice.
Modern
W3600x. Nineteenth-century painting. 3 pts. A. Staley. MW
2:40-3:55. Painting and sculpture in western Europe, 1789-1900.
The neoclassic, romantic, realist, impressionist, and post-impressionist
movements.
W3650y. Twentieth-century art. 3 pts. B. Buchloh. TuTh 2:40-3:55. Undergraduate enrollment requires registration in a discussion section, W3655y: Secs 1-8: hours to be arranged. Major developments in 20th-century painting, sculpture, and architecture, with emphasis on modernist and avant-garde practices and their relevance for art up to the present.
V3660x. American painting. 3 pts. L. Ferber. MW 6:10-7:25. An investigation of the ways in which cultural context, including American self-definitions and the land itself, shaped an ideology of the natural world in American art, with correspondences in philosophy, science, and literature, from its source in the Puritan ethic through transcendentalism and into the post-Darwinian period.
BC3680x. Europe: postwar art 1948-1968. 3 pts. B. Buchloh. MW 2:40-3:55. An exploration of historical, theoretical and artistic problems specific to the reflection on and production of visual culture after the Holocaust and WWII in Italy, Great Britain, France and Germany.
W4594y. Nineteenth-century Paris: architecture, urbanism, and art and visual culture. 3 pts. B. Bergdoll and M. Werth. TuTh 2:40-3:55. An examination of the formation of modern Paris, ca. 1852-1900, and the changing forms and functions of architecture and the visual arts. Issues such as class relations, mental life in the metropolitan the gendering of urban space, the emergence of new public spheres and discourses, the development of urban entertainment, consumer culture, mass media, and new technologies will be explored in relation to painting, photography, sculpture, expositions, early cinema, architecture, and urban planning.
W4601y. Nineteenth-century visual culture. 3 pts. J. Crary. MW 2:40-3:55. Important developments in the making of a new visual culture in the 19th century. Major emphasis on painting and photography but also attention to urbanization, early cinema, worlds fairs, fashion and technology.
W4661y. Twentieth-century Russian art. 3 pts. C. Kiaer.
TuTh 10:35-11:50. What happens to politics and the avant-garde,
realism and abstraction, modernism and postmodernism, and the
art of resistant subcultures, in the absence of "artistic
freedom," an art market, a commodity culture and even, arguably,
modernity itself? The course will examine late 19th c. realist
painting, early 20th c. primitivist and nativist avant-gardes,
cubism, suprematism, the proletkul't, kino-eye, constructivism,
photomontage, photgraphy as a weapon, socialist realism, official
monumental modernism, underground art, late soviet sots-art, and
post-soviet postmodernism, challenging the paradigms of modernist
art history developed in the west.
Seminars
BC3352y. Art of the later Middle Ages: medieval art at the Cloisters. 4 pts. T. Dale. F 2:10-4. Architecture, sculpture, and painting in the Romanesque and Gothic periods, with emphasis on French contributions.
W3895 or y. Introductory colloquium: the literature and methods of art history. 4 pts. x: J. Beck, Tu 2:10-4. y: J. Crary, M 10-12. An introduction to different methodological approaches to art history and a variety of critical texts by ancient and renaissance writers as well as modern authors such as Panofsky and Gombrich. Required of all majors.
W3923x. Art and ideology at the Manchu court of China. 4 pts. R. Harrist W 2:10-4. Focusing on art produced for the imperial court during the Qing dynasty (1644-1911) when China was ruled by the Manchus; this seminar will examine the ways in which painting architecture, ceramics, textiles, and other arts served to promote, legitimize and perpetuate imperial power in China.
W3936x. Baroque Rome. 4 pts. J. Connors. F 10-12. Rome as metropolis and center of artistic production 1585-1680. major artists include Caravaggio, Bernini, Borromini and Poussin; topics will include the three arts plus town planning, fountains, gardens and large complexes such as the chapels at S. Maria Maggiore, St. Peter's and the Cornaro chapel.
BC3943x. Painting in Paris ca. 1900. 4 pts. M. Werth Tu 10-12.
BC3953y. Medieval book painting. 4 pts. J. Rosenthal. W 2-4. Prerequisites: the instructor's permission and at least one course in medieval art. Principal forms of decoration and illustration in medieval manuscripts, including examination of original works in collections in New York City.
W3956y. Pieter Bruegel. 4 pts. D. Freedberg. W 2:10-4. Examines the ways in which Bruegel scholarship remains attached to a view of the artist as an autonomous source of artistic creation. Rather than viewing his art as the product of artistic invention, it is regarded as a site for the creation of social meaning.
W3959x. City and country in European art. 4 pts. J. Crary. W 10-12.
V3970x. Hogarth. 4 pts. C. Kiaer. Th 2:10-4. We will consider Hogarth as a public artist engaged in the social spaces and popular culture of his time--theater, urban spectacle, sexual morality and sexual underworlds, working women, the rise of commerce and consumption, class distinctions, criminality, the polluted body, and son--and as an aesthetic theorist of representation in his famous treatise "The analysis of beauty". The seminar will have Hogarth's graphic works available for weekly viewings in the fall 1998 exhibition "Hogarth and his Times" at Columbia's Wallach art gallery, enabling us to become sophisticated critics of Hogarth's line and composition, and to think in broader terms about the possiblitiy of thinking the aesthetic with, rather than against, social and cultural history.
W3978x. Theories of masquerading. 4 pts. Z. Strother. W 2:10-4. The seminar will explore certain world-wide themes in masquerading, such as the "grotesque body" and the carnivalesque, the miniature and the gigantic, the spectacle, and cross-dressing. There will be a focus on situating these themes within African traditions.
C3984x. Cezanne. 4 pts. T. Reff. M 4:10-6. Readings, discussions, and reports on the sources, subjects, and structure of Cezanne's art and its influence on modern art.
V3985y. The 20th-century American city: theory and practice in urban design. 4 pts. H. Ballon. Tu 4:10-6. The seminar concerns a range of attempts to bring order to the modern American city. Texts and designs by Lewis Mumford, John Nolen, Frank Lloyd Wright, Robert Moses, Buckminster Fuller, Jane Jacobs, and Oscar Newman, and debates about modernism, urbanity, regionalism, housing, and automobility will be covered.