Bridget Nevel

Art History and Visual Arts at Barnard The Art History department teaches the history and practice of visual creativity. All people, at all times, around the world, have expressed their identities and their beliefs through visual art. From temple complexes to tea-cups, from quilts sewn with scraps to sculptures welded with tons of steel, art objects bring to us a knowledge of who we have been and how we shape our environments.   Both our history and studio courses train students to observe the world more closely and interpret what they see. In our history courses, students study how art has occurred at the intersection of personal, technical, and social forces. In our studio courses, students learn to engage those forces using media ranging from traditional drawing to digital design.   Thanks to Barnard’s location in New York City, the Art History department’s classrooms include some of the world’s most important museums and galleries. Courses are regularly taught at or with

  What have artists brought to feminist struggles?     an article, which has become cult, in which she then takes up the ingenuous question of a gallery owner friend, and answers it by shedding light on the conditions of the impediment of female artists. Nearly fifty years later, three American academics (Lucinda Gosling, Hilary Robinson and Amy Tobin) unite to highlight the essential role of artists in feminist struggles. Or how, through the image, a whole fight is shaped. We take a look back, in five questions, on the writing of this (very) beautiful book, which evokes both education and exhibition conditions as well as the political impact of female art.   “Bethe Morison has succeeded, thanks to her rich and bourgeois environment, in using her artistic education to forge a career. "   The first artist  Lucinda Gosling: Bethe Motorist is interesting because she was at the center of the first truly disruptive artistic movement - the Impressionists - and painted i