GGS 526SEM - Feminism, Art, and Culture

This seminar explores how feminist theory and activism transformed the history of art and visual culture from Simone de Beauvoir’s landmark book The Second Sex (1949) to the present. We will consider the roles of gender, race, class, and sexuality, and think about how feminist art addressed, challenged, and changed discriminatory politics of difference. We will analyze artworks in relation to their historical and social contexts and from a variety of art historical methodologies; and we will examine feminist works in all media from painting and sculpture to performance, conceptual, and installation art, and from photography, film, and video to multimedia. Our discussions will be informed by first, second, and third-wave feminism, as well as queer theory and feminist activism.

Credits: 3