Provisional
Schedule of lectures and presentations:
(subject to change)
January 9
Introduction/Course Requirements;
January 11 (come prepared to discuss; no summary due)
Linda Nochlin, “Why
have there been no great women artists?” (1970) 145-178.
Sheila Ruth, “An Introduction to Women’s Studies” in
Issues in Feminism. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000. pp
23-30.
January
16
“Critical
Stereotypes: The Essential Feminine
or How Essential is Femininity,” in Old
Mistresses: Women, Art and Ideology.
eds. Parker, Rozsika and Griselda Pollock.
focus on pages 1- 14
44- 49.
January 18 snow day
January 23
(sections will be assigned)
Griselda Pollock, “The
Female Hero and the Making of a Feminist Canon” in
Differencing the Canon: Feminist Desire
and the Writing of Art’s Histories. New York: Routledge, 1999. 97-127.
January 25
Discussion of reading (summary required)
James M
Saslow, “Construction and Constriction of the Lesbian Body in Rosa Bonheur’s
Horse Fair,” in The Expanding Discourse:
Feminism and Art History, eds. Norma Broude and Mary Garrard, 1992.
January 30
:
(one section willl be assigned; we will discuss as groups but DO NOT WRITE A SUMMARY TO TURN IN)
Griselda Pollock, “Modernity
and the Spaces of Femininity”, in
Vision and Difference: Femininity,
feminism and histories of art. 50 – 90.
February 1 :
Discussion of reading (summary required)
Linda
Nochlin, “Morisot’s Wet Nurse:
The Construction of Work and Leisure in Impressionist Painting,” in
The Expanding Discourse, 231 – 241.
February 6 :
Discussion of reading (summary required)
Maud Lavin, Intro and “Portraits, Dancers and Coquettes:
The Modern Woman in Höch’s Photomontages, 1923-5” in
Cut with the Kitchen Knife. pp. 1-12;
123-154.
February 8
Discussion of reading (summary required)
Whitney Chadwick, An Infinite Play of Empty Mirrors: Women, Surrealism and Self-Representation pp. 3 – 35.
February 13 TBA
February 15 (no summary, just be prepared to discuss)
Arlene Raven,
“Woman House” in The Power of Feminist Art,
pp. 48 – 64 ; Arlene Raven, “Feminist Art Criticism: Its Demise and
Resurrection” Art Journal, vol 50, no. 2 (Summer 1991) 6-10.
Stephanie Genz, "'I am not a Housewife, but. . . ' Postfeminism and the Revival of Domesticity" in Feminism, Domesticity and Popular Culture, eds. Stacy Gillis and Joanne Hollows. 2010.
February 20 : (No summary required; just be prepared to discuss)
Eleanor Heartney, “Sherin
Neshat: Living Between Cultures” in
After the Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art. Munich:
Prestel Verlag 2007. 230 - 251
TOPIC IDEAS AND BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE
-
if this is not turned in then
5 points will be deducted from the final paper grade
February 22 Discussion of reading (summary required)
Laura Mulvey,
“Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”, 1975. 361-373
March 1 : (No summary required; just be prepared to discuss)
Rosalind Krauss, “The Film Stills”, chapter one in Cindy Sherman, 1993. (read the first twelve scanned pages; the page numbers are almost impossible to read in PDF document)
March 6 Discussion of reading (summary required)
Michelle
Meagher, “Jenny Saville and a Feminist Aesthetics of Disgust,”
Hypatia, vol. 18, no. 4 (Fall 2003).
23 – 39.
March 12 - 16 Spring Break
March 20: Discussion of reading (summary required)
Midori Yoshimoto, “The
Message is the Medium: The Communication Art of Yoko Ono” in
Into Performance: Japanese Women Artists
in New York.
March 22 (no summary, just be prepared to discuss)
Laura Hoptman, “Yayoi Kusama: A Reckoning” from
Yayoi Kusama. Phaidon Press Limited,
London, 2000. 34-80 (Many photos!)
Valerie
Smith, “Abundant Evidence: Black
Women Artists of the 1960s and 1970s” in Entering
the Picture: Judy Chicago, The
Fresno Feminist Art Program, and the Collective Visions of Women Artists.
Ed. Jill Fields, (2012). pp. 119 - 31.
Fisher Sterling, “Photographs and Text in the Work of Carrie Mae Weems” Carrie Mae Weems. National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C., 1993. 19-33
April 3:
Student Presentations (3)
April 5:
Student Presentations (3)
April 10:
Student Presentations (3)
April 12:
Student Presentations (3)
April 17:
Student Presentations (3)
April 19:
Student Presentations (3)
FINAL EXAM MEETING
3:00 p.m. Friday April 27th,
Student Presentations (3)