ART 217L - Women and Art

3 Credit(s)

Liberal Arts
This seminar will begin by examining the careers of the most productive and influential women painters working from the Renaissance to today. We will analyze the professional position of these artists and the ways in which they overcame the conditions of their gender, the economics of art production, and contemporary cultural contexts. We will also study the influence of the Feminism Movement on both their careers and their artistic productions. Then, we will look at depictions of women by male and female painters to see whether they reveal different and gender-based attitudes in their art. Students’ presentations with focus on contemporary women artists from any non-western tradition.