Gender and Modern Art

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

This course surveys art produced primarily by European and American women artists throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Examined within the context of feminist scholarship on women artists, the course focuses on the broad historical, social, cultural, and political backgrounds of the artists under examination. We will study artists working in a range of media: painting, sculpture, photography, performance, installation, and mixed media art. Our consideration will integrate a number of important concepts and ideas, including: female agency, the gaze, feminism, power, race, age, media, craft, hierarchy, originality, and genius.