Schedule of Presentations for
Women's Art
Spring 1997

Jan 9 -- First Class: Intro

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Jan 16 -- Syd & Elisa: Feminism in Art

• David Joselit, "Identity Politics: Exhibiting Gender" [Rev. of two exhibits -- "Sexual Politics" and "Gender, fucked"] Art in America (Jan. 1997)
• Selections on "Feminism" from The Feminist Dictionary, ed. Cheris Kramarae and Paula Treichler (1985)

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Jan 23 -- Rosemarie Bernardi: Lecture

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Jan 30 -- Elisa Sparks: Modernism & Feminism

• Whitney Chadwick, "Modernism, Abstraction, and the New Woman,"Chapter 9 from Women, Art, and Society (1990)
• Lisa Rado. Introduction to Re-Reading Modernism: New Directions in Feminist Criticism (1994)

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Feb 6 -- Everyone: Show & Tell:: Studio Visits

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Feb 14 -- Fleming Markel: The Problem of a Female Aesthetic

• Margaret Mary Majewski, "Female Art Characteristics: Do They Really Exist?" from Feminist Collage, ed. Judy Loeb (1979)
• Lucy Lippard, "Both Sides Now: A Reprise" (1989) rpt. in Pink Glass Swan
• Flavia Rando, "The Essential Representation of Women" Art Journal 50.2 (Summer, 1991)

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Feb 20 -- Class canceled due to weather

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Feb 27 -- Chasity Jones: Women Artists' Autobiographies
Selections from

• Kathe Kollwitz
• Frida Kahlo
• Eva Hesse

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March 6 -- Films on Images of Women: Dreamworlds and Slim Hopes

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March 13 -- Susan Goldsmith: Myth/Archetypal Approaches & Feminine Art

• Claudia Gould, "Mythologies of the Feminine: A Conversation with Ann McCoy." Arts Magazine, February 1989.
• Estelle Lauter, "Steps Toward a Feminist Archetypal Theory of Mythmaking," Introduction to her Women as Mythmakers: Poetry and Visual Art by Twentieth-Century Women. Indiana UP, 1984.

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March 20 -- Spring Break

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March 27 -- New York City Field Trip

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April 1 (Tuesday) -- Syd Cross: Women and Printmaking

• Richard Field and Ruth Fine, excerpts on printmaking in the seventies and eighties from Graphic Muse: Prints by Contemporary American Women (1987), pp. 5-6; 25-39.

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April 3 -- Mary Ellen Rice: Women Photographers

• Naomi Rosenblum, Intro, "Why Women?" and Chapter 2, "Not Just for Fun: Women Become Professionals, 1880-1915" from A History of Women Photographers (1994), pp.7-12; 55-9.
• Eugenia Parry Janis, "Her Geometry" from Women Photographers, ed. Constance Sullivan (1990) pp. 9-25.

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April 10 -- Laura Berkebile: Body as A Feminist Subject in Art

• Rosemary Betterton, "How do women look? The female nude in the work of Suzanne Valadon from Looking On: Images of Feminity in the Visual Arts and Media, ed. Rosemary Betterton (1987) pp. 217-22.
• Lisel Muller, "A Nude by Edward Hopper" in In Her Own Image, ed. Hedge and Wendt.
• Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard, "The Female Body and the Male Gaze" from their Intro to The Expanding Discourse: Feminism and Art History (1992), pp. 7-12.
• ??, "New Directions?" pp.116-32.

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April 17 ---- Erin Ford: Body As a Feminist Subject in Photography

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April 24 -- Everyone: Wrap-Up Discussion

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