| CODE | ART2038 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Gender Issues in Art | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 02 - Years 2, 3 in Modular Undergraduate Course | ||||||||||||
| MQF LEVEL | 5 | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 2 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Art and Art History | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | Focusing primarily on women artists, the study-unit draws attention to the importance of gender issues in Art Historical studies. The study-unit begins with analysing artists of the Middle Ages, and continues chronologically down to contemporary artists. What is considered primarily is the situation women artists found themselves in in different artistic periods of history, how they managed to develop their artistic skills, and how the subjects they could pursue changed according to a variety of socio-political situations. This study-unit aims to: Outline a number of women artists from different centuries and civilizations - compare and contrast artistic training for women vs for men across the centuries - Help students understand the difficulties women faced in a male-centered profession - Convey that a sound artistic training for both men and women is what allows them to become great artists, and not their gender - Discuss why the number of exhibits in museums and galleries tends to still focus largely on that by men and not women artists. Learning Outcomes: 1 Knowledge and Understanding By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - critically define the reasons why people perceive there to be limited knowledge about women artists, female patrons, and such. - critically analyze the relevance of female artists across the centuries and their contribution - analyze the reasons on how there came to be a different education and training for girls and boys - demonstrate awareness of recent research, conference and exhibitions related to female artists - critically discuss why there aren't so many well-known female artists and why, generally speaking, only some works by female artists hang in major art museums in the western world. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the students will be able to: - realise that gender issues do have an important impact in the history of art and in artistic production. - come to terms with the feminine as opposed to the masculine perspective in the visual arts - Work towards specific deadlines as agreed with lecturer - Present their work clearly in the lecture room Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: - Whitney Chadwick, Women, Art, and Society (T&H, 2007). - Linda Nochlin, Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?, 1971. - Katy Hessel, The Story of Art without Men (W. W. Norton & Company, 2022). - Great Women Artists (Phaidon, 2019). |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture | ||||||||||||
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