Art and Gender Art 4400
UTA (Spring 2010) Thursday 6:00-8:50
Instructor: Kelly Ingleright-Telgenhoff
Office: 280B
Office Phone: 817 272-0385
e-mail address:
Office Hours: Tuesday and Thursday 10:30am-1:20 pm; and by appt.
Required text: Gender and Art, Ed. Gill Perry, The Open University, 1999
Women Art and Society, Whitney Chadwick, 4th Ed. 2007
Other Required Readings: A list of required readings and scheduled dates in which those
Readingswill be discussed can be found in your reading assignment
list. Please come to class prepared to discuss the readings assigned
for that day. These extra readings will be on WebCT.
Goals of the Course
The goal of this course is to prepare you for graduate level work and understanding of various feminist and masculinist approaches within the writing and researching of art history. This course will survey feminist approaches which have influenced the way in which we perceive art that was made from the early 14th century to the present. We will examine women as artists and architects, images of women in art and society, as well as feminist methodology and women as patrons of art. We will also examine the fairly new theoretical approach of masculinist study and how males have been educated, controlled by social, economic, and religious systems within given areas. This course will concentrate on Western art and art forms, however, students are encouraged to consider these concepts and applications for other areas.
Study Habits and class attendance
Your attendance at each and every class is expected. Class participants are to have the sound judgment necessary and will take responsibility for their own actions, any excessive absences and will lower your grade if that number exceeds 2. It should be noted that good study habits—including regular attendance---are essential in a course like this, which involves the assimilation and recognition of large amounts of reading material and concepts that will help you in graduate work. Please be sure to take notes in class and carefully read the text and reading assignments.
Requirements:
Class attendance, note-taking, and assigned readings are critical to each student’s successful completion of the class. All of these points will become a part of your exams. The works of art presented in class lecture are keyed to the information found in the required text. In order better to take notes, you should always bring your slide monument to class (a slide monument will be distributed to you in class when we begin each chapter, I will also place these on WebCT should you loose your list, you may then retrieve another via that source).
Special Rules: Classroom Etiquette and Academic Conduct
1) Please be in class on time and remain for the entire period (I do realize there are exceptions please let me know before we begin class that you must leave should something require that you leave). You should never walk in front of any professor! If you need to leave before class is finished you need remove yourself quietly so as not to disrupt the lecture.
2) Turn off cell phones, Ipods, or any other electronic device (unless you are an on-call professional)! This rule applies to texting as well…I do not want to see any texting. If you pull out the cell phone or text—the entire class will have to take a pop quiz that day. The pop quiz will become a part of your final grade—so your behavior will have a direct effect on the rest of the class.
3) You may not use a laptop computer in the classroom to take notes. Too many students have been entertaining themselves in class with the computers (checking face book, e-mail, and other business); thus, this privilege has been suspended indefinitely.
4) Refrain from bathroom use while I am lecturing or while you are taking an exam. Being that none of my classes are more than one hour and fifteen minutes there is no reason for you to have to go to the bathroom (if you are ill…then by all means please go). You must take care of this business before you come to class. Once again you should never cross in front of your professors as they are lecturing
5) I would like to emphasize that UTA strives to maintain a spirit of civility in a community in which diversity is welcomed. Every student, staff, and faculty member plays a significant role in promoting an environment that is conducive to academic excellence by fostering a climate of civility and mutual respect. In all circumstances it is expected that everyone will act with respect for/to one another. Difference of opinion and dissent are ordinarily thought of as disagreement or debate and is welcome in my classroom; however, impinging upon the rights of others or interfering with teaching and learning processes in the academic setting is not accepted.
Academic Honesty Statement
UTA is committed to academic integrity in all its practices. The faculty value intellectual integrity and a high standard of academic conduct. Activities that violate academic integrity undermine the quality and diminish the value of educational achievement.
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UTA seeks to produce graduates who not only have an academic mastery of their subject but also treasure lifelong learning, diversity, and personal and social responsibility. We believe true learning and personal growth are possible only in an environment where everyone shares common values. One of our values is integrity, which we define as honesty, trust, respect, and fairness. Our values facilitate the intellectual inquiry, the open exchange of ideas and the collaboration necessary for individual learning and social progress. We expect faculty, staff, and students to exemplify all our values. We embrace our values, not out of fear of consequences, but out of a sense of commitment to families, peers, neighbors, our community and ourselves. Cheating on assignments, plagiarizing the work of others without proper citation, and collusion through unauthorized collaboration are not part of integrity.
Academic Integrity:
It is the philosophy of The University of Texas at Arlington that academic dishonesty is a completely unacceptable mode of conduct and will not be tolerated in any form. All persons involved in academic dishonesty will be disciplined in accordance with University regulations and procedures. Discipline may include suspension or expulsion from the University. “Scholastic dishonesty includes but is not limited to cheating, plagiarism, collusion, and submission for credit of any work or materials that are attributable in whole or in part to another person, taking an examination for another person, may act designed to give unfair advantage to a student or the attempt to commit such acts.” (Regents’ Rules and Regulations, Series 50101, Section 2.2
Course Evaluation
Class participation: You are required to read and discuss, to a degree-- in class, certain elements and philosophies discussed in your text and any reading assignments placed on WebCT. So please come prepared for the lecture. Read your assignments before coming to class. You will have a portion of your grade reflected in this area of class (this is one way to get extra credit). This is one of the areas that will help you maintain a grade or even push you into the next grade if you are on the borderline of a higher grade. (Remember I do take attendance too and that factors into your grade).
Weekly outline:
Each week I have assigned readings that are on WebCT. Please choose twoarticles in which to outline—in a very brief fashion. You will turn in the outline on the week the reading was assigned and when we have class (except those weeks in which presentations are given). This little outline should have the thesis statement of the author and just a few points of interest that you found interesting or things you want to address in class when we go over the reading. You may bullet the work…just give me enough info to show that you actually read the work. Each of these little outlines are worth 10 points (you will have a total of 10 of them) For total of 100 points. (please see hand out for instructions). I will not accept late work.
Write-ups (these are larger and more formal than the weekly outline above)
Four small write-ups will be assigned during the semester. You will read an article, pull out the thesis statement and then give a short synopsis of the article, the important points and supporting evidence utilized by the author as a means to prove his or her thesis. This assignment teaches students how to organize and to a degree write their own papers. write-ups are 25 points each (total of 100 points). I will not accept late work.
Exams:
You will have a Mid-Term Examworth 50 points. It is a take home exam. Do not take this lightly—my take home exams are more difficult than the in class exams. I expect more from you because you are able to use your notes and texts as a means to answer the questions I pose.
You will also have a Take Home Final exam worth 50 points. Same rules apply as above.
There will be no curve on the exam grades. THERE ARE ABSOLUTELY NO MAKE-UP EXAMS.
Annotated Bibliography: This assignment is worth 50 points. It is the preliminary component to your research paper. I will distribute instructions in 2 weeks regarding this assignment. No late work will be accepted.
Research Assignment :
This large research paper is due at the end of the semester. I will give you a packet of instructions in a month or so, explaining how to document/cite your work and the parameters for the paper itself. This assignment is also worth 100points. The paper is a 8-10 page paper with proper citations and documentation. On any topic you choose…that corresponds to Art and Gender topics related to, or similar to, those we are studying.
Research Project presentation
You will present in PowerPoint form, your research project. The presentation must be ten minutes long and will highlight the areas discussed in your paper. You must use images and text in this presentation as a means to explain in a clear fashion your thesis statement and the points/topics you used to support your findings or ideas. This project is worth 100 points. The last three - four weeks of class will be set aside for this component of your learning. You must attend your peers presentations in order for me to give you credit for your presentation. DO NOT SKIP these presentations.
Total points ~550 (plus attendance and any pop quizzes I may have to give due to someone texting)
Performance Levels:
Excellent A (90-100 %), Very Good B (80-89 %), Average C (70-79 %), Weak D (60-69 %),
Unacceptable F (below 59 %)
***Please note****The syllabus is subject to change based upon the needs of the instructor
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Readings, Due Dates, and projects
***NB GA= Gender and Art text
WAS= Women, Art and Society text
WebCT=WebCT EXD=Expanding Discourses (it is a book but I the
chapters on WebCT)
Items with an ** are those you may use for weekly outline or write-up
Week 1 (Jan. 21)
Introduction to the course and syllabus instruction, and WebCT instructions.
Brief lecture (1 hour) over introduction of Chadwick (pp. 17-40) and Perry’s (pp. 8-30) texts—
Also discussion over Linda Nochlin’s “Why have there been No Great Women Artists
(Linda Nochlin’s “Why have there Been No Great Women Artists?” –this article is on WebCT)
Introduction of : Masculinity Studies and Feminist Theory: New Directions, ed. Judith Kegan Gardiner, ColumbiaUniversity Press, 2002. pp. 1-15.
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Week 2 (Jan. 28) You need to have read the items below for this meeting.—most of the articles are less than 10 pages long and have pictures so they are not as daunting as you might think.
WAS: Chapters 2 (start around page 71) and 3
GA: Introduction and pp. 33-85
WebCT:
Mira Schor, “Patrilineage,” in Amelia Jones’ The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader, pp. 249-256
**Lauren Mulvey, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema, in The Feminism and visual Culture Reader,p.44-52.
**Robert Schultz, When Men look at Women: Sex in an age of Theory, 1995
**ExD, Cha 2 “The Gaze, the Eye, the Profile in Renaissance Portraiture”, Patricia Simons
**ExD, Chapter 5 “Botticelli’s Primavera: A Lesson for the Bride”
Week 3 (Feb. 4) Write-up #1 is due
Was: Chapter 4 and 5
GA: Part 2, Gender, Genres and Academic Art in the 18th Century, (pp. 87-107)
GA: Case Study 4, Women Artists and the FrenchAcademy: Vigee-Lebrun (pp. 108-127)
WebCT:
**Thomas Crow, “A Male republic: bonds between men in the art and life of Jacques-Louis David,” in Femininity and Masculinity in 18th Century art and Culture, ed. Gill Perry and Michael Rossington, Manchester University Press, 1994. pp.204-218.
** Colin Cunningham, “An Italian house is My Lady” Some aspects of the definition of women’s role in the architecture of Robert Adam, in Femininity and Masculinity in 18th Century Art and Culture, pp. 63-77.
Richard Leppert, The Nude, Westview Press, 2007. Intro to female nude, pp. 81-91; Male pp 161-198
Week 4 (Feb. 11)
WAS: Chapter 6: Sex, Class, and Power in Victorian England, (pp.175-204)
GA: Case Study 5 and 6, pp. 130-174
WebCt:
**ExD, Sazlow, Disagreably Hidden (about Rosa Bonheur),
**Hariette Hosmer, The artist, the Writer, the Queen, --also an article
**Hariette Hosmer, there is another Hosmer article—it may be used too.
**Annette Stott, Floral Femininity, (This article asks why so many women are shown in gardens or with flowers…During the Impressionistic period, and what does that mean about the artists that create them..
**Thomas Eakins and use of the Male Nude…article
Leppert, The Nude, The female Nude, pp. 91-126.
Week 5 (Feb. 18)
WAS: Chapter 7: Toward Utopia: Moral Reform and American Art in the 19th Century
Chapter 8: Separate but Unequal: Women’s Sphere and the New Art
GA: Case study 7 Gender and design in the Victoria period
WebCT:
**Sander L. Gilman’s “Black Bodies, White Bodies: Toward and iconography of female sexuality in late 19th century art, medicine, and literature, in Amelia Jones’s The Feminism and Visual
Culture Reader, pp. 136-150.
**Lorraine O’Grady “Olympia’s Maid: Reclaiming black female subjectivity” in The Feminism and Visual Culture Reader. pp. 174-185.
Leppert, The Nude, “The Male Nude: Measured Difference: Matters of Black and White,” pp. 198-220.