Glendale Community College February 1990 (new text approved 5/08) COURSE OUTLINE Art 118
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Catalog Statement Art 118 -- Women in Visual Arts -- 3 units (Formerly Art 112) Prerequisite: None. Note: (Prior to Fall 1986, Art 118 was Life Drawing) Art 118 is an introduction to the history of women as artists in European and American traditions. Women's roles in non-Western cultures will also be discussed as well as images of women in art. Lecture 3 hours
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Course Objectives The students will be able to: 1. understand the roles women have played in the history of art, both as subject matter and as artists; 2. synthesize the roles of women as image and artist in African, Native American, and Asian Art; 3. synthesize the roles of women as image and artist in the ancient world, the middle ages, and the Renaissance; 4. appreciate the increasing and changing roles of women in the arts from the 19th century to the present.
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Broude, N. and Garrard, Mary D.- Editors. Reclaiming Female Agency: Feminist Art History After Postmodernism. Current Edition. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2005. 12th Grade Textbook Reading Level. ISBN: 052024252. Women and Art, Elsa Honig Fine. Allanheld & Schram/Prior, 1978.
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Course Outline A.
Introduction
3 hours
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Approaches to the study of Art History Women's roles a. Women as subject matter 1. Fertility images 2. Goddesses 3. Mothers 4. Queens 5. Heroines 6. Victims 7. Witches 8. Femme Fatale b. Women as artists 1. The issue of male and female culture -- are they separate entities? 2. "Why have there been no great female artists"? Women in non-European societies 10 hours 1. Native American Women a. Images of women in Native American Cultures 1. Earth Goddesses 2. Conquering or destructive goddesses b. Women as artists in Native America 1. Datsolali 2. Maria Martinez 3. Dona Rosa 2. Women in African Art a. Woman as a fertility image b. Woman as a Mother c. Woman as wife and companion d. Woman as a queen 3. Women in Asian Art a. Images of women in Asian art 1. Hindu goddess 2. Mughal Manuscript images 3. Tale of Genji illustrations 4. Ukiyo-e print images b. Women artists in Asian culture 1. Lady Wei 2. Bin-Ru 3. Kung Sujan 4. Ma Shou-Chen 5. Jotetsu 6. P'an Yu-Liang 7. Shunko 8. Sun To-Ye 9. Tseng Yu-Ho Women in the European Tradition 20 hours 1. Discussion of women's roles in the European tradition with comparison to women in non-European societies 2. Women and Ancient Art a. Images of women in Ancient Egypt b. Images of women in Ancient Greece c. Images of women in Ancient Rome d. Iaia of Kyzikos, Ancient Roman portrait painter 3. Women in the Middle Ages a. Women's culture in the Middle Ages 1. The development of the Cult of the Virgin 2. Chivalry and the Courts of Love
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Art created in convents 1. Manuscript illumination 2. Embroidery of liturgical vestments and tapestries c. Women artists in the Middle Ages 1. Ende 2. Herrade of Hohenberg 3. Hildegard of Bingen Women in the Renaissance-Baroque traditions a. Education of women b. The humanist influence c. The Renaissance ideal of beauty d. Influential Renaissance women e. Women as artists in the Italian Renaissance 1. Cateina Dei Vigri 2. Sofonisba Anguissola 3. Lavinia Fontana 4. Marietta Robusti Tintoretto f. Women and the 17th Century in Italy 1. Baroque as a style of art 2. Women as Baroque artists a. Artemisia Gentileschi b. Elisabetta Sirani c. Rosalba Carriera d. Fede Galizia g. Women and the 17th Century in the Netherlands 1. The function of art in the 17th Century 2. The structure of art as a profession 3. Northern realism 4. The growth of the middle class 5. Genre and the Cult of the Home 6. Women as artists in the 17thCentury Netherlands a. Clara Peeters b. Caterina von Hemessen c. Judith Leyster d. Maria van Oosterwyck e. Maria Sibylla Merian f. Rachel Ruysch Women in the 18th Century a. The supposed "feminization" of culture b. The attitude of Enlightenment thinkers toward women c. The image of women in 18th Century art -- the iconography of love and sensual delight d. Women and the Academy e. Women artists in the 18th Century French tradition 1. Louise Moillon 2. Francoise du Parc 3. Adelaide Labille-Guiard 4. Elizabeth Louise Vigee-Lebrun f. Women's culture in the context of the French Revolution -- the supposed "masculinization" of culture g. Women artists at the end of the century in France 1. Marguerite Gerard 2. Constance Marie Charpentier 3. Marie-Guillemine Benoist h. The English School: Portraiture 1. Women and the Industrial Revolution
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2. Women as artists in 18th Century England a. Angelica Kauffman b. Frances Reynolds Women in the 19th Century a. The status of women in the 19th Century b. Images of women in 19th Century art 1. The odalisque 2. Pre-Raphaelite women 3. Olympia 4. Dancers, performers, etc. c. Attitudes toward women as creative personalities d. Women with careers as artists 1. Rosa Bonheur 2. Ellen Sharples 3. Rolinda Sharples 4. The Impressionist Movement a. Berthe Morisot b. Suzanne Valadon c. Eva Gonzales Women in the 20th Century a. Multitude of movements b. Expressionist and Surrealist images of women c. The status of women artists d. Women as artists in 20th Century Europe 1. Käthe Kollwitz 2. Paula Modersohn-Becker 3. Natalia Goncharova 4. Alexandra Exter
5. Liubov Popova 6. Sonia Delauney 7. Marie Laurencin 8. Sophie Taeuber-Arp 9. Germaine Richier 10. Barbara Hepworth, etc. Women artists of the United States 1. Changing roles of women 2. Education of women 3. American women artists to 1900 a. Henrietta Johnson b. Mary Ann Willson c. Anna Claypoole Peale d. Sara Miriam Peale e. Jane Stuart f. Lilly Martin Spencer g. Cecilia Beaux 4. American expatriate women artists a. Harriet Hosmer b. Edmonia Lewis c. Anne Whitney d. Mary Cassatt 5. The development of American Museum collections 6. American women as patrons of the arts a. Cassatt b. Stein
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c. Guggenheim d. Vanderbilt e. Whitney f. Rockefeller 7. American women artists in the 20th Century a. Florine Stettheimer b. Georgia O'Keefe c. Lee Krasner d. Dorothea Tanning e. Elaine de Kooning f. Joan Mitchell g. Helen Frankenthaler,etc. 8. The Feminist Art Movement a. Chicago b. Shapiro Review
3 hours
Examination/Evaluation Procedures
Four examinations composed of slide identification and essay questions. The final exam requires the student evaluate and analyze slides that have not been discussed in class. The accompanying essay should include a justification of the student's analysis of each slide.
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Special Features A research paper on women's art and/or culture is required.
