ARTH 4610 - Women Artists

(crosslisted)
(also FGSS 4040) (LA-AS)

Fall. 4 credits.

Permission of instructor is required.

J. Bernstock.

This seminar examines both feminist art criticism and the work of women artists from antiquity to the present. We consider the works of the most prominent women artists from each period in relation to the changing roles of women in society. The artists covered include Jennifer Barlett, Artemisa Gentileschi, Elizabeth Vigee-Lebrun, Mary Cassatt, Kathe Kollwitz, Georgia O’Keefe, Louise Nevelson, Joan Mitchell, Judy Chicago, and Barbara Kruger.