COURSE SCHEDULE:
Week 1:
1. Monday, September 4
Introductory lecture and course presentation, scope and requirements
2. Wednesday, September 6
Readdressing the traditional twentieth-century canon of Western art history
Week 2:
1. Monday, September 11
Leonora Carrington and Surrealism
2. Wednesday, September 13
Artists and the visual document
Tina Modotti
Week 3:
1. Monday, September 18
Lucia Moholy
2. Wednesday, September 20
Lee Miller
Week 4:
1. Monday, September 25
Leni Riefenstahl
2. Wednesday, September 27
Women artists and the Harlem Renaissance
Augusta Savage
Week 5:
1. Monday, October 2
Women artists and Black Mountain College
Ruth Asawa
2. Wednesday, October 4
Museum-makers and curatorship
Cornelia Bentley Sage Quinton
Week 6:
1. Monday, October 9
Palma Bucarelli
2. Wednesday, October 11
Anne d'Harnoncourt
Week 7:
1. Monday, October 16
Radical scholarship and criticism
Lucy Lippard
2. Wednesday, October 18
Carla Lonzi
3. Friday, October 20 – make-up day for Wednesday, November 1
Midterm review
Week 8:
1.Monday, October 23
Midterm exam
2. Wednesday, October 25
Mavens of Modernism: patronage and the bohemian salon
Pauline Gibling Schindler
Week 9:
1. Monday, October 30
Peggy Guggenheim
2. Wednesday, November 1 – holiday, no class
Week 10:
1. Monday, November 6
In-class presentations / Forum discussion
2. Wednesday, November 8
In-class presentations / Forum discussion
Week 11:
1. Monday, November 13
Mavens of Modernism: patronage and the bohemian salon (cont'd)
Margaret Gardiner
2. Wednesday, November 15
Championing the emergent: new gallery practices
Erica Brausen
Week 12:
1. Monday, November 20
Betty Parsons
2. Wednesday, November 22
Virginia Dwan
Week 13:
1. Monday, November 27
Artists, creativity in isolation and domesticity
Georgia O’Keeffe
2. Wednesday, November 29
Agnes Martin
Week 14:
1. Monday, December 4
Andrea Zittel
2. Wednesday, December 6
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.
Chase, Marilyn. Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa. Chronicle Books, 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.
Grad, Bonnie L. Georgia O'Keeffe's Lawrencean Vision. Archives of American Art Journal, 1998, Vol. 38, No. 3/4, pp. 2-19. The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.
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. On the Art of Lee Miller. Aperture, Spring 2007, No. 186, pp. 50-57. Aperture Foundation, Inc.
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.
Kunny, Clare. Leonora Carrington's Mexican Vision. Art Institute of Chicago Museum Studies, 1996, Vol. 22, No. 2, Mary Reynolds and the Spirit of Surrealism, 1996.
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.
Lippard, Lucy. Six Years: The dematerialization of the art object, University of California Press, 1997.
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.
Rosenblum, Naomi. A World History of Photography. Abbeville Press, 1984.
Souter, Gerry. Georgia O'Keeffe. Parkstone International, 2011.
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.
Villa, Angelica. Photographer Lee Miller's Subversive Career Took Her from Vogue to War-Torn Germany. Art in America, March 19, 2021.
Wells, Liz. Photography: A Critical Introduction. Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015 (5th edition).
Wilson, Frances. Burning Man: The Trials of D.H. Lawrence. Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2021.
Zox-Weaver, Annalisa. Women modernists and fascism. Cambridge University Press, 2011.