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Final Syllabus
Women, Art and Identity| DIS – Study Abroad in Scandinavia | Related Disciplines: Art History, Gender Studies, Visual Arts
WOMEN, ART, and IDENTITY Spring 2017 Copenhagen
European Humanities – 3 credit course Related Disciplines: Art History, Gender Studies, and Visual Arts
Instructor: Andrea Homann Time: 11:40 – 13:00 Mondays and Thursdays
Location: V10 A13
Shirin Neshat, Untitled, 1996
Content This course is an investigation of women artists and their impact on early modern and contemporary culture. Significant European and American artists from the time of the Impressionists to the present will be analyzed. The course discusses the social and art historical contexts in relation to shifting female identities in art, including a debate on women in the context of modernity and postmodernity. The analysis of individual artistic achievements in a variety of media will be supported by the respective literature, providing a historical, theoretical and critical background. Larger contexts of artistic practice, such as museology and globalization will be explored. Field studies to significant museums and contemporary exhibitions in the Copenhagen area form an essential part of this course. The visits require active student participation (e.g. student presentations and group work).
Final Syllabus
Women, Art and Identity| DIS – Study Abroad in Scandinavia | Related Disciplines: Art History, Gender Studies, Visual Arts
Instructor: Andrea Homann Dipl.-Ing. (Apparel Engineering/Fashion Design, FH Mönchengladbach, 1989). 1989-1990 Designer at Westfalenstoffe, Münster/Germany, 1990-1993, Educator at the Museum of Contemporay Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. Since 1994, Educator at the Danish National Gallery (Statens Museum for Kunst). With DIS since 1997. Consultation: Preferably after class DIS Contact: Matt Kelley, Program Assistant, European Humanities Department Objectives
To gain knowledge of the primary manifestations of women’s art from the late 19th century to the present
To acquire the ability to formally analyze and discuss specific art works and related historical and cultural parameters
To enable students to critically evaluate the contexts of artistic practice, with a special focus on gender and identity
To utilize museums and art galleries in Copenhagen as sites for experiential learning
To elaborate specific topics from the period in oral and written assignments Course Requirements
Attendance and active participation in class discussions and during museum visits, including oral presentations;
Written assignments: exhibition review, research paper (in accordance with Writing Papers at DIS), test;
To be eligible for a passing grade in this class you must complete all of the assigned work; Course Evaluation Research paper (8 pages) 30% In class test 25% Exhibition review (4 pages) 15% Oral presentation in class 10% Active class participation 10% In class essay 10% Disability and Resource Statement Any student who has a need for accommodation based on the impact of a disability should immediately contact Office of Academic Support ([email protected]) to coordinate this. In order to receive accommodations, students should inform the instructor of approved DIS accommodations.
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Women, Art and Identity| DIS – Study Abroad in Scandinavia | Related Disciplines: Art History, Gender Studies, Visual Arts
Field Studies
GL Strand Gammel Strand 48 1202 København K
Statens Museum for Kunst (The Danish National Gallery) Sølvgade 48-50, 1307 København K
Kunsthal Charlottenborg Nyhavn 2, 1051 København K
Required reading: Nochlin, Linda: Why have there been no great women artists? In: Amelia Jones (ed.): The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader. London-New York, Routledge, 2003. Pp.229-233. Pollock, Griselda: The Missing Future: Moma and Modern Women, in Cornelia Butler and Alexandra Schwartz (eds.) Modern Women, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 2010, pp.29-55 (available on canvas) Gördüren, Petra: “Sophie Calle, The Shadow (Detective)”, in, CTRL [SPACE] Rhetorics of Surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother, ed. by Thomas Y. Levin, Ursula Frohne and Peter Weibel, Karlsruhe: ZKM Center for Art and Media/Cambridge, Massachusetts & London: MIT Press, 2002, pp. 410–415, (available on canvas) Søndergaard, Sidsel Maria and Tea Baark Mairey: Like a Quivering Between Things in Søndergaard, Sidsel Maria (ed.): Women in Impressionism, From Mythical Feminine to Modern Woman. Milan: Skira, 2006. pp. 225-273 228,230, 234,235-240,246-48, 256-258, 264-271).
Reilly, Maura: Toward Transnational Feminisms, in Global Feminisms – New Directions in Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum, Merell Publishers, 2007, pp.15-45 (available on canvas)
Pollock, Griselda: Modernity and the Spaces of Feminity. In Vision and Difference, New York: Routledge, 1988. pp. 50-90. Breuning, Malene: A Room of One’s Own. The Intimate Quality of Anna Ancher,s Portraits and Interiors in: I am Anna, A Hommage to Anna Ancher. Skagens Museum, 2009. Radycki, Diane, Pictures of Flesh: Modersohn Becker and the Nude, Women’s Art Journal Fall/Winter 2009. (Available on canvas) Chadwick, Whitney: #9 Modernism, Abstraction &The New Woman, in Whitney Chadwick: Women, Art and Society, London: Thames and Hudson, 1990, pp. 252-279. Lavin, Maude: Hanna Höch’s From an Ethnographic Museum. In: Sawelson-Gorse, Naomi: Women in Dada: essays on Sex, Gender and Identity. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1998.pp.330-359.
Davis, Caitlin S: Lee Millers’ Revenge on Culture: Photojournalism, Surrealism and Autobiography, Woman’s Art Journal, Vol.27, No.1, New art Publications, 2006, pp.3-9.
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Women, Art and Identity| DIS – Study Abroad in Scandinavia | Related Disciplines: Art History, Gender Studies, Visual Arts
Grimberg, Salomon: Frida Kahlo’s Still Lifes: “I Paint Flowers So They Will Not Die”, Women’s Art Journal, Vol 25, No.2, Woman’s Art Iinc, 2004-2005, pp.25-30. Helland, Janice: Aztec Imagery in Frida Kahlo’s Paintings: Indigenity and Political Commitment, Woman’s Art Journal, Vol. 11, No.2, Woman’s Art Inc., 1990-1991, pp.8-13.
Block, Rebecca and Lynda Hoffman-Jeep: Fashioning National Identity: Frida Kahlo in “Gringolandia”, Women’s Art Journal, vol.19, No.2, 1998/99, pp.8-12. (Available on canvas) Kotik, Charlotta, The Locus of Memory: An Introduction to the Work of Louise Bourgeois, in Louise Bourgeois, The Locus of Memory, New York, The Brooklyn Museum, 1994, pp.13,16-19,22-27. Kuehn, Julia: Elisabeth Jerichau Baumann, Egypt 1870, Victorian Literature and Culture, Vol.38. No1, Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp.257-266 (available on canvas)
Potts, Alex: Louise Bourgeois: Sculptural Confrontations, Oxford Art Journal, Vol.22, No.2, 1999, pp.39-53. (Available on canvas) Bishop, Claire: Installation Art and Experience in Claire Bishop, Installation Art: A Critical History. London, Tate Publishing, 2005. pp. 6, 8, 10, 11, 13. Blocker, Jane: Exile in Jane Blocker, Where is Ana Mendieta? Identity, Performativity and Exile. Durham-London: Duke University Press, 1999.
Klaus Biesenbach: Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present. The Artist was Present. The Artist will be Present, in Klaus Biesenbach: Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present. New York, MOMA, 2010 (available on Canvas) Wellendorf, Kassandra: Elastic Looking and Negotiations of Invisibility in Public Spaces in Transvisuality: The Cultural Dimension of Visuality, Liverpool University Press, 2015, pp. Williams, Judith: Images of Woman, The Photography of Cindy Sherman. in Hilary Robinson: Feminism – Art-Theory: an Anthology 1968-2000, Oxford:Blackwell, 2000. pp. 453-459. Mulvey, Laura: Visual Pleasure in Narrative Cinema. in Art in Theory, 1900-2000 An Anthology of Changing Ideas. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers .pp982-989.
Wagstaff, Sheena: Uncharted Territory: New Perspectives in the Art of Mona Hatoum, in Said, Edward and sheena Wagstaff: The Entire World as a Foreign Land London, Tate Publishing, 2000. Satrapi, Marjane, Persepolis, London, Jonathan Cape, 2006. pp.294-300. Ravenal, John B.: Shirin Neshat:Double Vision, in Norma Broude, Reclaiming Female Agency, Feminist Art History after Postmodernism, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2005. pp. 447 -451, 453-458. Danto Arthur C. and Shirin Neshat: Shirin Neshat , Bomb, No. 73, New Art Publications, Fall 2000, pp.60-67.
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Women, Art and Identity| DIS – Study Abroad in Scandinavia | Related Disciplines: Art History, Gender Studies, Visual Arts
Detailed Schedule Thursday, January 19
Gender and Art - An Introduction Assignment: Nochlin, Linda: Why have there been no great women artists? In: Amelia Jones (ed.): The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader. London-New York, Routledge, 2003, Pp.229-233. http://en.glstrand.dk/media/40913/Press-release-Extract-V-UK-dagspresse.pdf
Monday, January 23
Differencing the Canon - Exhibiting Women Assignment: http://www.artnews.com/2015/05/26/taking-the-measure-of-sexism-facts-figures-and-fixes/ (Reilly, Maura: Taking the Measure of Sexism, available on Canvas) Recommended Reading: Salomon Nanette: The Art Historical Canon: Signs of Omission. In Preziosi, Donald: The Art of Art history, Oxford University Press 1998. Pp.334-355 www.marxists.org/reference/subject/ethics/de-beauvoir/2nd-sex/introduction.htm
Thursday, January 26
Elisabeth Jerichau Baumann and the Victorian World: A Book in the Making Guest Lecture: mag.art. Sine Krogh Assignment: Kuehn, Julia: Elisabeth Jerichau Baumann, Egypt 1870, Victorian Literature and Culture, Vol.38. No1, Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp.257-266 (available on canvas)
Monday, January 30
Women in Impressionism: Models and Painters Assignment: Søndergaard, Sidsel Maria and Tea Baark Mairey: Like a Quivering Between Things in Søndergaard, Sidsel Maria (ed.): Women in Impressionism, From Mythical Feminine to Modern Woman.Milan:Skira, 2006.225-273 Pollock, Griselda: Modernity and the Spaces of Femininity. In Vision and Difference, New York: Routledge, 1988.
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Women, Art and Identity| DIS – Study Abroad in Scandinavia | Related Disciplines: Art History, Gender Studies, Visual Arts
Thursday, February 2 Anna Ancher: A Room of her Own Nordic Artist Couples Around 1900 Assignment: Breuning, Malene: A Room of One’s Own. The Intimate Quality of Anna Ancher,s Portraits and Interiors in: I am Anna, A Hommage to Anna Ancher. Skagens Museum, 2009. www.skagensmuseum.dk (exhibition: “I am Anna”)
Short Program Study Tours
Monday, February 13 Paula Modersohn Becker and the Female Nude Assignment: Radycki, Diane, Pictures of Flesh: Modersohn Becker and the Nude, Women’s Art Journal Fall/Winter 2009. (Available on Canvas)
Wednesday, February 15, 13:00 – 16:00 Field study: Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Hito Steyerl: Factory of the Sun (2015) Assignment : http://charlottenborg.dk/en/udstillinger/hito-steyerl/ http://www.e-flux.com/journal/49/60004/too-much-world-is-the-internet-dead/ Thursday, February 16
Modern Women in the Context of the Avant-Garde I Assignment: Chadwick, Whitney: #9 Modernism, Abstraction &The New Woman, in Whitney Chadwick: Women, Art and Society, London: Thames and Hudson, 1990, pp.252-279
Monday, February 20
Modern Women in the Context of the Avant-Garde II Sonia Delaunay: Art and Fashion EXHIBITION REVIEW DUE Assignment: Rendell, Clare: Sonia Delaunay and the Expanding Definition of Art, Womens Art Journal, Vol.4, No1, 1983, pp.35-38. (Available on Canvas)
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Women, Art and Identity| DIS – Study Abroad in Scandinavia | Related Disciplines: Art History, Gender Studies, Visual Arts
Thursday, February 23 Women in the Collection of the National Gallery Field Study: Statens Museum for Kunst
Assignment: www.smk.dk Reilly, Maura: Toward Transnational Feminisms, in Global Feminisms – New Directions in Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum, Merell Publishers, 2007, pp.15-45 (available on canvas) Recommended Reading: Pollock, Griselda:The Missing Future: Moma and Modern Women, in Cornelia Butler and Alexandra Schwartz (eds.) Modern Women, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, 2010, pp.29-55 (available on Canvas)
Long Program Study Tours/Break
Monday, March 6
The Dada Collages of Hanna Höch Assignment: Lavin, Maude: Hanna Höch’s From an Ethnographic Museum. In: Sawelson-Gorse, Naomi: Women in Dada: essays on Sex, Gender and Identity. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1998.pp.330-359.
Wednesday, March 8, 17:30-19:30
Artist talk with Kassandra Wellendorf Associate Professor, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen, Film Director and Media Artist Visualizing “mis-meetings” in film, interactive media and participatory art Films: Invisible, Close,and Outside Participatory art project: Inside Out 2400 Video Installation: Sleeping Obstacles Assignment: Kassandra Wellendorf, Elastic Looking and Negotiations of Invisibility in Public Spaces in Transvisuality: The Cultural Dimension of Visuality, Liverpool University Press, 2015, pp. http://www.fastvideo.dk/2011Pixel/051117Wellendorhp.html http://insideout2400.dk/ http://www.zelig.dk/art/sleeping-opstacles/
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Women, Art and Identity| DIS – Study Abroad in Scandinavia | Related Disciplines: Art History, Gender Studies, Visual Arts
Thursday, March 9 Strangely Familiar – Artists and Muses in Surrealism Assignment: Davis, Caitlin S: Lee Millers’ Revenge on Culture: Photojournalism, Surrealism and Autobiography, Woman’s Art Journal, Vol.27, No.1, New art Publications, 2006, pp.3-9
Monday, March 13
Duality and Identity in Frida Kahlo’s Paintings Assignment: Grimberg, Salomon: Frida Kahlo’s Still Lifes: “I Paint Flowers So They Will Not Die”, Women’s Art Journal, Vol 25, No.2, Woman’s Art Iinc, 2004-2005, pp.25-30. Helland, Janice: Aztec Imagery in Frida Kahlo’s Paintings: Indigenity and Political Commitment, Woman’s Art Journal, Vol. 11, No.2, Woman’s Art Inc.,1990-1991, pp.8-13.
Thursday, March 16
IN CLASS TEST
Long Tour Break
Monday, March 27 NO CLASS Thursday, March 30
Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress and the Tangerine Assignment: Kotik, Charlotta, The Locus of Memory: An Introduction to the Work of Louise Bourgeois, in Louise Bourgeois, The Locus of Memory, New York, The Brooklyn Museum, 1994, pp.13,16-19, 22-27. http://mediation.centrepompidou.fr/education/ressources/ENS-bourgeois-EN/ENS-bourgeois-EN.html
Monday, April 3 Female Spaces: Installation Art Assignment: Bishop,Claire, Installation Art and Experience in Installation art: A Critical History. London, Tate Publishing, 2005.
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Women, Art and Identity| DIS – Study Abroad in Scandinavia | Related Disciplines: Art History, Gender Studies, Visual Arts
Thursday , April 6 The Displacement of Ana Mendieta Assignment: Blocker, Jane: Exile in Jane Blocker, Where is Ana Mendieta? Identity, Performativity and Exile. Durham-London: Duke University Press, 1999. Recommended Reading: Peggy Phelan, Survey in Helena Reckitt (ed.): Art and Feminism. London: Phaidon Press, 2001. pp. 14-49. www.throughtheflower.org ; www.brooklynmuseum.org
Monday, April 10 The Public Body: Marina Abramovic Assignment: Klaus Biesenbach: Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present. The Artist was Present. The Artist will be Present, in Klaus Biesenbach: Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present. New York, MOMA, 2010. (Available on Canvas) Recommended Reading: Jones Amelia: Survey in Tracey Warr: The Artist’s Body. London, Phaidon Press 2000. pp. 16-47.
Easter Break
Wednesday, April 19, 9:00- 12:30
Field study: Gl Strand Malene Landgren Klara Kristalova Assignment: tba
Thursday, April 20 Constructing Female Stereotypes: Cindy Sherman Assignment: Mulvey, Laura: Visual Pleasure in Narrative Cinema. in Art in Theory, 1900-2000 An Anthology of Changing Ideas. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers. pp. 982-989. ISBN 978-0-631-22707-6, 1258p. Williams, Judith: Images of Woman, The Photography of Cindy Sherman. In Hilary Robinson: Feminism – Art-Theory: an Anthology 1968-2000, Oxford: Blackwell, 2000. pp. 453-459.
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Women, Art and Identity| DIS – Study Abroad in Scandinavia | Related Disciplines: Art History, Gender Studies, Visual Arts
Monday, April 24 Shifting Geographies: Julie Edel Hardenberg Assignment: Körber, Lill-Ann: Figurations of the Hybrid, Julie Edel Hardenbergs Visions of Post-Colonial Greenland, in Globalizing Art, pp. 183- 203, Aarhus University Press, 2011
Thursday, April 27 Places of (Be) Longing: Mona Hatoum and Notions of Home Assignment: Wagstaff, Sheena: Uncharted Territory: New Perspectives in the Art of Mona Hatoum, in Said, Edward and Sheena Wagstaff: The Entire World as a Foreign Land, London: Tate Publishing, 2000. www.whitecube.com/artists/hatoum/
Monday, May 1
Transnational Identities: Shirin Neshat Assignment: Danto Arthur C. and Shirin Neshat: Shirin Neshat, Bomb, No. 73, New Art Publications, Fall 2000, pp.60-67. Satrapi, Marjane, Persepolis, London, Jonathan Cape, 2006. pp.294-300.ISBN 0224080393,343p.
Ravenal, John B.: Shirin Neshat:Double Vision, in Norma Broude, Reclaiming Female Agency, Feminist Art History after Postmodernism, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2005. Pp. 447 -451,453-458.
Thursday, May 4 In Class Test Wrap up
Monday, May 8
RESEARCH PAPER DUE Please upload your papers directly to the assignment in canvas by Monday, May 8th. Late papers will be downgraded.