Art and Women SP 2019

Wednesday, March 13, 2019

Good morning, friends!

Here I am at the Hidden Figures talk.
(Better late than never.)

Look, Peter Englot is right behind me.

Yes, he's the dude that sends us all those emails.
He's a nice guy.

Have a good break!

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Final Exam Study Guide here

FINAL EXAM in class Thursday 5/2

>>Please respond to SIRS course survey for this course if you have not already: https://sakai.rutgers.edu/portal/site/sirs

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Due Tuesday 4/30

POST 4 Can you name 5 women artists?

due 4/30 11pm

MANDATORY if you did not go to the Brooklyn Museum *** Extra credit +5 if you visited the museum

Concentrating on contemporary artists, choose 5 women artists to illustrate and briefly explain various themes we have discussed throughout the course about gender, race, class and art history. You can organize your post into genres, 'isms, political or societal messages, aesthetics, techniques or personal narratives. You must choose a clear thesis and the 5 artists carefully. Your post MUST include artists working today. Be sure to illustrate your post with various images (and/or videos) and to cite your research.

Please reference Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party and other exhibitions at the Brooklyn Museum if you visited.

~1000 words, citations and bibliographic info and 5+ images with captions. See checklist from previous posts.

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Writing assignment for *up to 5pts* if you visit the Brooklyn Museum on your own

Due 4/30 at 11pm

If you were unable to attend the Brooklyn Museum with the class on Sunday but can still make the trip you can receive up to 5pts of credit. You must visit Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party at the Brooklyn Museum. Read all of the supporting materials in the exhibition and browse the information on the small interactive tablet outside the installation. Spend some time in The Dinner Party paying close attention to the details of the place settings, note the names and techniques, the imagery and patterns. Choose a few of your favorite place settings. Note how many names might be familiar to you. Write 3+ paragraphs about your experience with The Dinner Party. Include names, details, techniques and your own reactions.

Visit at least one other gallery/floor in the museum! Include a few details about that as well in your post. Have fun and explore!

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Due Tuesday 4/23 and Thursday 4/25

READINGS: Chadwick, Ch. 14+15

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Due Tuesday 4/16

READINGS: Chadwick, Ch. 14

Group 7 presents

Due Thursday 4/18

Group 8 presents

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POST 3 due - extended to Friday 4/12

Important to note:

++BROOKLYN MUSEUM TRIP++

We will be meeting at the Brooklyn Museum on Sunday, April 14th at 1pm

We will be visiting Judy Chicago's The Dinner Party and the other galleries of the Elizabeth Sackler Center for Feminist Art.

We will meet in the glass lobby of the museum near the main entrance door at least 10 minutes BEFORE 1pm. Buy your ticket as soon as you arrive. Remember general admission to the museum is a suggested donation. We will assemble here and I will be leading all of us upstairs to see the Dinner Party all together. I will walk you through the installation and explain as much as I can about it and you will all have time to experience the installation for yourselves. You will then be able to visit any part of the museum after we are done. I highly recommend staying and seeing other galleries! The Frida Kahlo exhibition requires timed tickets purchased ahead of time as soon as you get to the museum _ pending any tickets are still available. I highly recommend you try to see this exhibition as well if you can.

Give yourself extra time for traveling on the weekend. Directions to the Brooklyn Museum can be found here. There is street parking near the museum if you drive there. Careful to read street regulation signs carefully. There is also a parking lot at the museum where you can pay to park. Speak to other students about car pooling together or traveling together via public transportation. Please feel free to invite a guest.

Attendance at the museum on 4/14 will be worth 5pts and students can chose NOT to complete the last writing assignment IF they attend the museum trip.

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Due Thursday 4/11

Curator's Tour of Feast & Famine

We will be meeting outside the classroom in the hallway outside of Paul Robeson Gallery. We will be attending a curators tour with Anonda Bell. Gallery Director and Curator of PRG. Please be on time!

If you missed class or part of class please watch WAR! online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyKmVo5jDdQ

Post 3

Modernism/Postmodernism

What is modernism? How did women artists in Europe influence the techniques and development of modernism and the movements of abstraction, german expressionism, dada and surrealism and other movements in modernism? What important circumstances aided these and how were women integral in applying the techniques of design and craft in these new approaches to art?

Compare and contrast these with postmodernism. What is postmodernism? How have women artists been instrumental in the development of its main themes? Please include examples of each of the movements within modernism and examples of postmodern art. Explain the specifics of these new approaches to art and art-making in the 20C.

~1000 words. Include citations of the class readings in your post (Chadwick and Guerrilla Girls). Please be sure to include at least five images (examples) and two links.

See checklist below for other issues to consider and include in your post. Refer to this checklist for guidance on the post structure and expectations:

-Please include in-body citations of the readings (author, pg)

-Include a brief "works cited" at the bottom of the post with the two (or more) readings you are citing from. You can use APA, MLA or Chicago formats for citation

-Images should have captions. What is the image? Why is it included? Is it referenced in your text?

-Edit: grammar, spelling, sentence and paragraph structure.

-Links must link -please make sure your links LINK. Why is the link included? Think about how the hyperlink is used online. Integrate your links into your writing. They should augment the information provided.

-Images must be sized correctly and should fit in the body of the blog.

-Check your formats in general. Spacing issues, indentations, font sizes, image sizes (sized correctly once published).

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Due Thursday 4/4

READINGS: Chadwick, Ch.12 +13, Guerrilla Girls pg.89-91

Group 6 presents

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Enjoy your Spring Break!

Due Tuesday 3/26

READINGS: Review Chadwick, Ch. 10

Read Chadwick Ch.11, Guerrilla Girls pg.80-88

Group 4 presents

Due Thursday 3/28

READINGS: Chadwick Ch.14

Group 5 Presents

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Due Tuesday 3/12 and Thursday 3/14

READINGS:

Chadwick, Ch. 9 + 10, Guerrilla Girls pg.59-79

Group 3 presents

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Midterm Exam Thursday 3/7 in class

*BE ON TIME!

MIDTERM EXAM STUDY GUIDE (linked here)

Due Tuesday 3/5

NO READINGS

Post 2 (must be posted by Friday 3/8 11:59pm)
Gender Roles, Subject and Power
What were the expected roles of women in Europe in the Middle Ages? How did roles for women change throughout the Renaissance and into the 19C? Please explain how these roles influenced the lives of women artists and the subjects of their work. Citing references to the readings, please use examples through the 19C to illustrate the challenges women artists faced. How did they overcome these or reference them in their work?

~1000 words. Include citations of the class readings in your post (Chadwick and Guerrilla Girls). Please be sure to include at least three images and two links. See checklist below for other issues to consider and include in your post.

Refer to this checklist for guidance on the post structure and expectations:
-You should reference the Guerrilla Girls book and the Whitney Chadwick textbook.
-Please include in-body citations of the readings (author, pg)
-Include a brief "works cited" at the bottom of the post with the two (or more) readings you are citing from. You can use APA, MLA or Chicago formats for citation
-Images should have captions. What is the image? Why is it included? Is it referenced in your text?
-Edit: grammar, spelling, sentence and paragraph structure.
-Links must link -please make sure your links LINK. Why is the link included? Think about how the hyperlink is used online. Integrate your links into your writing. They should augment the information provided.
-Images must be sized correctly and should fit in the body of the blog.
-Check your formats in general. Spacing issues, indentations, font sizes, are your images appearing correctly?
-REREAD YOUR POST AND EDIT!!!

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Due Tuesday 2/26

Readings:

Chadwick Ch.6, Ch.7 and Guerrilla Girls pg.47-57

19C American Craft, Painting and Sculpture

Due Thursday 2/28

Readings:

Chadwick Ch.8 Impressionism

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Due Tuesday 2/19 and Thursday 2/21

Readings:

Chadwick Ch.6, Ch.7 and Guerrilla Girls pg.47-57

Group 1 presents

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Due Tuesday 2/12 and Thursday 2/14

READINGS:

Chadwick, Ch. 4 + 5, Guerrilla Girls pg.39-45

2 quotes from each chapter

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*EDIT Post 1 until Tuesday 2/12 1pm

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Due Tuesday 2/5

READINGS:

Chadwick, Introduction Overview of the text + Chapter 1 Middle Ages

and

Guerrilla Girls pgs. 7-37

2 quotes from each chapter/reading

Due Thursday 2/7

READINGS:

Chadwick Chapters 2+3 Renaissance

*focus on general societal structures and historic themes.

2 quotes from each chapter

POST 1 : Male Gaze and Patriarchy (posted by 11:59pm on 2/7)
Please answer the following questions based on the readings and class discussion. Use your own experiences and realizations to help illustrate your understanding of the material. You must cite from the readings in order to explain and analyze the arguments made in the readings. What is the male gaze (as described by John Berger) and why is it pervasive in art and in popular culture? Give illustrative examples. What is patriarchy (as described by bell hooks)? Give examples. How have you come to understand these structures and in what ways has this understanding changed your views about various art and media examples and of your own identity and role in these structures?

What contemporary arguments can you find that have sprung from these?
Ex: female gaze, oppositional gaze, intersectional feminism. Please expand this analysis into areas of art, art history, cinema and film theory, media criticism, intersectional feminism and sociology.

~800 words. Include citations from both of the readings in your post. Please be sure to include at least two images and two links.

Refer to this checklist for guidance on the post structure and expectations:

-You must reference the bell hooks and John Berger readings
in your post. You can (optional) also reference additional readings: Linda Nochlin, Guerrilla Girls and the Whitney Chadwick textbook - additional sources from your own research.
-Please include in-body citations of the readings (author, pg)
-Include a brief "works cited" at the bottom of the post with the two (or more) readings you are citing from. You can use APA, MLA or Chicago formats for citation

-Images should have captions. What is the image? Why is it included? Is it referenced in your text?
-Edit: grammar, spelling, sentence and paragraph structure.
-Links must link -please make sure your links LINK. Why is the link included? Think about how the hyperlink is used online. Integrate your links into your writing. They should augment the information provided.
-Images must be sized correctly and should fit in the body of the blog.
-Check your formats in general. Spacing issues, indentations, font sizes, are your images appearing correctly?

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Due Tuesday 1/29

GET THE TEXTBOOKS

Whitney Chadwick's Women Art and Society 4th or 5th edition
and
The Guerrilla Girls' Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art

MINI POST due - Critical Artist Expression
(a SHORT POST on the blog)
Find and research a female identified artist whose work (you believe) critically addresses a cultural, social or political issue. Share this on the blog with a short description and one or more images of their work. If you have trouble posting to the blog, bring in the information about your artist to class as a print out and be sure to hand it in to me.

2-3 paragraphs with at least one image and one link.

READINGS On Blackboard:

two readings can be found as pdfs on the class Blackboard site under "Course Documents" in a folder called "Readings: Ways of Seeing"

2 quotes from each reading

1. John Berger, Ways of Seeing, Chapters 2+3

2. bell hooks, Understanding Patriarchy

READINGS Online:

2 quotes from each reading

LINK UPDATED - reading due 1/31

3. Linda Nochlin, Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists

http://www.writing.upenn.edu/library/Nochlin-Linda_Why-Have-There-Been-No-Great-Women-Artists.pdf

4. Report Card: Guerrilla Girls and Pussy Galore
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/02/20/sexism-art-_n_6721318.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/women-artists-what-this-term-means_us_5626a52be4b0bce34702b7dd

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Link to the Syllabus

Link to the Class Video Screenings

It is helpful that everyone in the course reviews several key terms crucial to the course material. Please review this important list of terms on gender and sexuality.

Readings on the syllabus, unless otherwise specified, refer to chapters in your texts:

Whitney Chadwick's Women Art and Society

and

The Guerrilla Girls' Bedside Companion to the History of Western Art

**Additional readings can be found on the class Blackboard site and will be specified here for each class. Please check the blog each week for all readings.