ARTH 310 - Women Gender and Art

2023-2024 Catalog Year

Credit(s): 3
Lecture: 3
Non-Lecture: 0

This course will look at gender as a process of creation of images and image making in the history of western art from antiquity to the present, emphasizing modern and contemporary art The course will examine the works and lives of artists from a gender and/or transgender perspective and the social conditions that have affected the definition and manifestation of gender and its role in creativity and in the careers of individual artists. In addition, the course will explore the challenges that the gender issues have posed to subject matter and content for works of western art. In so doing, the methodologies of art history will be employed.

Prerequisite(s): ARTH 171 or ARTH 172 or ARTH 173
Offered: Not on a Regular Basis