COURSE SCHEDULE:
Week 1:
1. Monday, September 5
Introductory lecture and course presentation, scope and requirements
2. Wednesday, September 7
Readdressing the traditional twentieth-century canon of Western art history
Week 2:
1. Monday, September 12
Leonora Carrington and Surrealism
2. Wednesday, September 14
Artists and the visual document
Tina Modotti
Week 3:
1. Monday, September 19
Lucia Moholy
2. Wednesday, September 21
Lee Miller
Week 4:
1. Monday, September 26
Leni Riefenstahl
2. Wednesday, September 28
Barbara Morgan
Week 5:
1. Monday, October 3
Women artists and the Harlem Renaissance
Augusta Savage
2. Wednesday, October 5
Museum-makers and curatorship
Cornelia Bentley Sage Quinton
Week 6:
1. Monday, October 10
Palma Bucarelli
2. Wednesday, October 12
Anne d'Harnoncourt
Week 7:
1. Monday, October 17
Midterm review
2. Wednesday, October 19
Midterm Exam
Week 8:
1.Monday, October 24
Radical scholarship and criticism
Lucy Lippard
2. Wednesday, October 26
Carla Lonzi
Week 9:
1. Monday, October 31
In-class presentations
2. Wednesday, November 2
In-class presentations
Week 10:
1. Monday, November 7
Mavens of Modernism: patronage and the bohemian salon
Galka Scheyer
2. Wednesday, November 9
Peggy Guggenheim
Week 11:
1. Monday, November 14
Mabel Dodge Luhan
2. Wednesday, November 16
Championing the emergent: new gallery practices
Erica Brausen
Week 12:
1. Monday, November 21
Betty Parsons
2. Wednesday, November 23
Virginia Dwan
Week 13:
1. Monday, November 28
Artists, creativity in isolation and domesticity
Georgia O’Keeffe
2. Wednesday, November 30
Agnes Martin
Week 14:
1. Monday, December 5
Andrea Zittel
2. Wednesday, December 7
Final Exam review and final research paper due
Week 15:
Week of December 12-16 Final Exam (date and time TBA)
A complete bibliography for the course will be provided at the start of the semester. For a core (in-progress) selection of bibliographic works see below.
Specific required reading assignments will be communicated weekly, together with further reading and viewing suggestions that will enhance and enrich the students' understanding of the course material.
Altshuler, Bruce. Salon to Biennial. Exhibitions That Made Art HIstory, Volume I : 1863-1959. Phaidon, 2008.
Bey, Sharif. August Savage: Sacrifice, Social Responsibility, and Early African American Art Education. Studies in Art Education: A Journal of Issues and Research in Art Education v58 n2, 2017.
Celant, Germano. Virginia Dwan and Dwan Gallery. Skira, 2016.
Chadwick, Whitney. Leonora Carrington: Evolution of a Feminist Consciousness. Woman's Art Journal, Spring-Summer, 1986, Vol. 7, No. 1.
Chadwick, Whitney. Women, Art, and Society: World of Art Series: 1. Thames and Hudson, 6th edition 2020.
Dawson, Jessica. Virginia Dwan Los Angeles. Archives of American Art Journal, 2007, Vol. 46, No. 3/4, 2007.
Davis, Angela. Women, Race & Class. Random House, 1981.
Drohojowska-Philp, Hunter. Full Bloom: The Art and Life of Giorgia O'Keefe. W W Norton & Co Inc, 2004.
Flores, Tatiana. Strategic Modernists:Women Artists in Post-Revolutionary Mexico. Woman's Art Journal, Fall-Winter, 2008, Vol. 29, No. 2.
Foster, Hal, Krauss, Rosalind, Bois, Yve-Alain, Buchloh, Benjamin H.D. Art Since 1900: Modernism Antimodernism Postmodernism. Thames & Hudson, 2004.
Greer, Germain. The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1979.
Harrison, Charles, Paul, Wood. Art in Theory 1900-2000: An Anthology of Changing Ideas. Blackwell Pub, 2002.
Haworth-Booth, Mark. The Art of Lee Miller. V&A Publications, 2009.
Higgie, Jennifer. The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution and Resilience: 500 Years of Women’s Self-Portraits. W&N, 2022.
hooks, bell. Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism. Pluto Press, 1987.
Horne, Victoria, Perry, Lara. Feminism and art history now: radical critiques of theory and practice. I.B. Tauris, 2017.
Kirschke, Amy Helene. Women artists of the Harlem Renaissance. University Press of Mississippi, 2014.
Kraus, Rosalind E. Bachelors. MIT Press, 1999.
Laing, Olivia. Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency. W W Norton & Co Inc, 2020.
Lippard, Lucy. A Documentary Herstory of Women Artists in Revolution. Primary Information, 2021.
Lippard, Lucy. From the Center: Feminist Essays on Women's Art. Plume, 1976.
Lonzi, Carla. Self-portrait. Divided Publishing, 2021 (English translation).
Martin, Agnes. Writings. Hatje Catz, 1998.
Nochlin, Linda. Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists. Art News, 1971.
Obrist, Hans Ulrich. A Brief History of Curating. Jrp Ringier Kunstverlag Ag, 2008.
Plagens, Peter. Sunshine Muse: Art on the West Coast, 1945-1970. University of California Press, new edition 2000.
Prose, Francine. Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern. Yale University Press, 2015.
Wade, Francesca. Square Haunting: Five Women, Freedom and London Between the Wars. Faber & Faber, 2000.
Vail, Karole P. B., Peggy Guggenheim : The Last Dogaressa. Marsilia, 2020.
Wilson, Frances. Burning Man: The Trials of D.H. Lawrence. Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2021.