Women and Gender Politics in Art

Catalog description

Exploration of the changing image and practices of women artists in modern and contemporary art. Units include rape as a feminist issue, gaze theory and its implications, the masquerade and construction of identity, the queer body, crafts and the decorative, feminism and race, the women of the Black Arts Movement, Latinx women artists, global feminisms, the abject, and spirituality as a feminist practice. Key art historical and theoretical texts on gender and race prioritized. (Not open to students who have completed Art 15.6.)