Skip Navigation

Login

 
   
 

Catalog Details

AH361 - Art and Gender
This course will examine the dynamic relationship of art and gender over the past forty years, through an introduction to key artists, controversies, and texts that have shaped the diverse field of contemporary art. Taking the U.S. feminist art movement of the 1970s as our point of departure, we will consider the ways in which art can be a tool of self-determination. Students will gain familiarity with enduring feminist themes and debates: the (im)possibility of an essential female artistic sensibility, the need for intersectional approaches that prioritize race and sexuality alongside gender, and the continued reality of institutional sexism and racism in the art world. The feminist art movement was not monolithic, although at times it has been constructed within the academy and the art world as a movement of white, cis (non-trans), middle class, heterosexual women. We will expand our notion of “feminist art” by examining the multiple “feminisms” that have been offered in critiques by marginalized artists. Similarly, we will expand our notion of “gender” to include non-binary and trans experiences.

Lecture
Description Women and Art explores issues about women as producers of culture and women as subjects of art. We will look at work by and about women and discuss topics including: sexual politics and visual images; the social construction of gender; media imagery and women; the female body--identity and performance; and definitions of art, craft, and design as they relate to "women's work." Based on the scope of a student's project or level of study there may be additional costs for materials and supplies. Satisfies: Art History/Liberal Arts elective requirement
Prerequisites AH214 / Lecture <min grade = D-, min credit = 3.00> or AH215 / Lecture <min grade = D-, min credit = 3.00> or AH217 / Lecture <min grade = D-, min credit = 3.00>
Corequisites N/A
Fees N/A
Credits 3.00
Credit Types Credit

Find Course Sections