ARTH3020

Women making art after 1960

Lecturer: Vivian K. SHENG

6 credits

Issues of sexuality, subjectivity, gender, and domesticity have been central to women making art since the 1960s. In response to the urgent need for reconsidering women’s contribution to the constitution and representation of sociocultural and geopolitical realities within the international art world beyond Euro-American centers this module grounds the historical discussion of these concepts in a broader global context. The first half of the course reviews key issues and debates in western feminist art movements between the 1960s and 1980s. The inclusion of case studies on the works of women artists, including Mona Hatoum, Nikki S. Lee, Yin Xiuzhen, Shen Yuan, and ON Megumi Akiyoshi in the second half of the course aims at introducing new artistic contents, and alternative cultural formats and theoretical paradigms to the on-going construction of a feminist history of art within the increasingly interconnected, yet unevenly developed globalizing contemporary society.

100% coursework

At least one 2000-level Art History course

FINE3020

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“Interesting topics.”

ARTH3020 student, 2017-2018

“Very informative.”

ARTH3020 student, 2017-2018

“Really in-depth discussion into each topic.”

ARTH3020 student, 2017-2018