ART 357 - Gender and the Visual Arts

2019-2020 Catalog Year:

This course introduces students to some major women artists and to feminist debates within art history. The course identifies the institutions and processes that construct the gender of the artist: academic and avant-garde artistic training and collectives; the rise of national academies; the formation of the art historical canon; the hierarchy of subject matter and the media of art. It emphasizes the ways in which seeing and looking structure our understanding about masculinity, femininity and sexuality.

Prerequisite: Upper division standing and ART 250 OR 251 OR WST 200, or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3