Edconic: Contemporary Art & Global Feminisms

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Offered every semester. Restricted to students in the Edconic program. Taught at Sotheby's Institute in London by Edconic instructors. This course will consider the key global currents of fifty years of feminist art around a number of themes. These include feminist art about the body and sexuality, women's domestic labour, feminist approaches to identity, motherhood and childcare, violence against women, feminism, and the art historical canon. Students will encounter these themes through a number of different media, from painting, photography and sculpture to textile, digital, and performance art.