ART 357 - Gender and the Visual Arts

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SUNY College at Oswego

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Description:

This course introduces students to some major women artists and to feminist debates within art history. The course identifies the institutions and processes that construct the gender of the artist: academic and avant-garde artistic training and collectives; the rise of national academies; the formation of the art historical canon; the hierarchy of subject matter and the media of art. It emphasizes the ways in which seeing and looking structure our understanding about masculinity, femininity and sexuality. Prerequisites: Eng 102 or permission of instructor. Ir-3-

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.oswego.edu/

Phone Number:

(315) 312-2500

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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