ART 270 - Women in Art

Credits: 3

Description
This course will explore the contributions women have made to Western art from the Middle Ages through the present. Among the topics we shall consider are: works of art produced by women artists and the historical circumstances in which they were produced; how women have been represented by Western artists, both male and female; and the role women have played in Western culture as art patrons and art collectors.

Student Learning Outcomes

Student will become familiar with the works and careers of a representative number of women artists in the west from the late Middle Ages through the present.
Student will be able to identify the various ways in which women have been represented in the West from the Middle Ages to the present and will understand how those representations intersect with prevailing gender ideologies.
Student will become familiar with the histories of a number of female patrons and collectors of art.
Student will be able to analyze the role played by art institutions – art academies, the dealer/critic system, museums – in both the production and the reception of works of art produced by women.
Student will understand the role played by the discipline of art history in establishing the value of art by women.
Student will understand how contemporary feminist thought has affected the discipline of art history.

Prerequisite: None
Corequisite: None

Graded: Letter Grade