Fall 2025 Art History BC3667 section 001

CLOTHING

Call Number 00093
Day & Time
Location
MW 4:10pm-5:25pm
304 Barnard Hall
Points 4
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Type LECTURE
Course Description

Human beings create second, social, skins for themselves. Across history and around the world, everyone designs interfaces between their bodies and the world around them. From pre-historic ornaments to global industry, clothing has been a crucial feature of people’s survival, desires, and identity. This course studies theories of clothing from the perspectives of art history, anthropology, psychology, economics, sociology, design, and sustainability. Issues to be studied include gender roles, craft traditions, global textile trade, royal sumptuary law, the history of European fashion, dissident or disruptive styles, blockbuster museum costume exhibitions, and the environmental consequences of what we wear today. Required 1 hour a week TA led section to be arranged.  

Web Site Vergil
Department Art History @Barnard
Enrollment 0 students (240 max) as of 9:05PM Thursday, April 3, 2025
Subject Art History
Number BC3667
Section 001
Division Barnard College
Section key 20253AHIS3667X001