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ARTH 452: Women in Art
Professor Karen Stock
Maymester 5:00 – 8:15 pm
Contact information and office hours:
Office: McLaurin 104
Phone: 323-2659
E-mail: [e-mail is the best way to reach me]
Office hours: Mon. 3:00-5:00 [please stop by and sign up] or by appointment
Web site: http://faculty.winthrop.edu/stockk/
Course description:
This course will investigate a variety of female artists from Europe, the Middle East and Japan beginning with the Renaissance and continuing through the post-modern age.
Textbooks:
There are no required textbooks for this course. However, there are extensive readings on line that you are required bring to class in printed or digital form.
GNED: ARTH 452 fulfills GNED requirements for Historical Perspectives and Humanities and the Arts. Goal 1.0 To communicate clearly and effectively in standard English Goal 3.0 To use critical thinking, problem-solving skills, and a variety of research methods Goal 4. 0 To recognize and appreciate human diversity (both past and presnt) as well as the diversity of ideas, institutions, philosophies, moral codes, and ethical principles. Goal 6.0 To understand aesthetic values, the creative process, and the interconnectedness of the literary, visual, and performing arts throughout the history of civilization.
Student Learning Outcomes
The successful student will
· be an active engaged learner,
· understand that knowledge is constructed and see knowledge as connected and related
· identify and interpret artworks, styles and movements from throughout history and across the globe
· conduct independent research expressed in written and oral presentations
Students with Disabilities
Winthrop University is dedicated to providing access to education. If you have a disability and require specific accommodations to complete this course, contact Services for Students with Disabilities at 323-3290 and make an appointment to see a professional staff member. Once you have your official notice of accommodations from Services for Students with Disabilities, please inform me as early as possible in the semester.
Course requirements and evaluations: This is an advanced course that requires a basic knowledge of art history. The class will be conducted as a seminar rather than a lecture so participation is absolutely vital.
Grade – Your grade will be based on class participation (25%), one short presentation and one long presentation and the final paper. You must complete all assignments in order to pass the course.
Reading Reviews/ Précis :(25%) You are responsible for writing a ½ to one page summary of the key points of ONE article for each day of class. These should be composed of complete sentences and paraphrase the most essential aspects of the article. The challenge is to condense complex ideas. Because of the accelerated nature of the course you can select which article for which you will write a summary but you are still responsible for reading both articles.
Short presentation/ Leading Discussion: (25%) You are responsible for leading discussion and bringing in images. You will be responsible for providing a fifteen minute summary of the assigned article. This should be a concise overview of the main points of the essay. Read the article ahead of time so that you can contact me if you have questions. A formal written paper OF 3 -5 PAGES is required.
Long Presentation (25%) This is an opportunity for you to investigate an artist that we have not discussed in class. Your presentation should be 30 – 45 minutes. You are required to come and speak to me after you have done some preliminary research for your topic.(bring an outline and a bibliography) Research should include checking books out from the library, requesting an interlibrary loan, photocopying articles, and using online sources such as JSTOR. Unlike the short presentation you will read directly from your paper and you are responsible for the images. Please come and speak to me if you have questions about accessing the slide library or using digital sources.
PLAGIARISM
Plagiarism is the use of someone else’s words, ideas or lines of argument without appropriate documentation. Plagiarism will result in penalties ranging from grade reduction to an F. All ideas as well as quotes must be properly cited in the body of your paper either with author & page number, endnote or footnote. Students should consult and print “The Correct Use of Borrowed Information” (www.winthrop.edu/English/plagiarism.htm) before beginning any writing assignment. Ignorance or failure to consult this material is no excuse.
Course policies:
Attendance and conduct: Attendance is essential to completing the course successfully and will be taken on a daily basis at the beginning of class.
Students are allowed three unexcused absences. Upon the third unexcused absence, a student’s final grade will be lowered by 5 points. Subsequent absences will result in additional deductions, at the cost 5 points off of final grade for each day of class missed. Habitual lateness, perpetual inattention, or frequent disruptions will likewise lower your grade. Excused absences include medical and personal emergences; students must present a doctor’s note. A student who misses more than five classes will fail the course. Remember to sign the attendance sheet at each class period as this will be the sole record of your presence in the class.
Late work: I do not grant extensions except under dire and documented circumstances. Late papers without an extension will receive a deduction of ten points off the final grade for each day they are late (including weekend days), starting with the end of the class on which they are due.
Sleeping or excessive Tardiness will count as an absence
Late work unacceptable without written excuse from doctor
NO cell phones or text messaging
If you have special needs for presentations, etc., call 323 2233
Take advantage of the Writing Center for a better paper 323 2138
Provisional Schedule of lectures and presentations: (subject to change)
Art History and Feminism
MAY
14 Introduction/Course Requirements;
15 Linda Nochlin, “Why have there been no great women artists?” (1970) 145-178. Sheila Ruth, “An Introduction to Women’s Studies” in Issues in Feminism. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2000. pp 23-30.
“Critical Stereotypes: The Essential Feminine or How Essential is Femininity,” in Old Mistresses: Women, Art and Ideology. eds. Parker, Rozsika and Griselda Pollock. pay special attention to pages 1- 14; 44- 49.
European Female Artists of the Past
16 Griselda Pollock, “The Female Hero and the Making of a Feminist Canon” in Differencing the Canon: Feminist Desire and the Writing of Art’s Histories. New York: Routledge, 1999. 97-127.
James M Saslow, “Construction and Constriction of the Lesbian Body in Rosa Bonheur’s Horse Fair,” in The Expanding Discourse: Feminism and Art History, eds. Norma Broude and Mary Garrard, 1992.
17 Griselda Pollock, “Modernity and the Spaces of Femininity”, in Vision and Difference: Femininity, feminism and histories of art. 50 – 90.
Linda Nochlin, “Morisot’s Wet Nurse: The Construction of Work and Leisure in Impressionist Painting,” in The Expanding Discourse, 231 – 241.
Contemporary Female Artists
21 Joan Semmel, “Sexual Imagery in Women’s Art,” Woman’s Art Journal, vol. 1 no. 1 (Spring – Summer) 1980, pp 1-6. Rozsika Parker, “Back to the Twentieth Century: Femininity and Feminism,” in Old Mistresses: Women, art and Ideology. 134-168.
Arlene Raven, “Woman House” in The Power of Feminist Art, pp. 48 – 64 ; Arlene Raven, “Feminist Art Criticism: Its Demise and Resurrection” Art Journal, vol 50, no. 2 (Summer 1991) 6-10.
22 Charles Merewether, “From Inscription to Dissolution: An Essay on the Expenditure on the Work of Ana Mendieta” in Ana Mendieta. Barcelona, Ediciones Polígrafa, S.A. and Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, 1996.
23 Laura Mulvey, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema”, 1975. 361-373
Rosalind Krauss, “The Film Stills”, chapter one in Cindy Sherman, 1993. (read the first twelve scanned pages; the page numbers are almost impossible to read in PDF document)
24 Michelle Meagher, “Jenny Saville and a Feminist Aesthetics of Disgust,” Hypatia, vol. 18, no. 4 (Fall 2003). 23 – 39.
Laura Hoptman, “Yayoi Kusama: A Reckoning” from Yayoi Kusama. Phaidon Press Limited, London, 2000. 34-80 (Many photos!)
28 catch up day
29 Long Student Presentations (3)
30 Long Student Presentations (3)
31 Long Student Presentations (3)