University of Minnesota, Morris

Women and Art

Marie-Denise Villers (previously Constance Charpentier, and before that Jacques-Louis David)

Woman Drawing [possible self-portrait?], c.1801, Metropolitan Museum of Art

ARTH 3281

Prof. Julia Dabbs

Office: HFA 5

Office Hours: M/W: 2:15-3:15; T/TH: 3:45-4:45; or by appt. [Fall term 2009]

Email: dabbsj@morris.umn.edu

“One would find any number of superior women throughout the world

if one took the trouble to look for them.”

- Christine de Pizan, from Le Livre de la Cité des Dames, 1405

This seminar will provide an historical survey of the role of women as creators and patrons of the visual arts in Western European and American societies, from antiquity to the present. Artists to be studied include Artemisia Gentileschi, Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Rosa Bonheur, Mary Cassatt, Georgia O’Keeffe, Frida Kahlo, Judy Chicago, and Faith Ringgold.

Syllabus and outline of classes

Slide Preview/Review List, Exam #3 (Tues. Nov. 24)

Upcoming:

· Thurs. Nov. 5, trip to MIA (all day)

· Thurs. Nov. 12 (NEW): status report in which you indicate the focus of your artist presentation or website; and

indicate what work(s) of art you are considering using; and

let me know how your research for the annotated bibliography is going.

(I’d like a hardcopy of this if possible, thanks)

Websites of Interest

Student websites, fall 2008:

· Julia Margaret Cameron (by Celia Perry)

· Zaha Hadid (by Escillia Allen)

· Remedios Varo (by Janelle Simones)