Women's Studies 2158A/B Lecture Notes - Judith Leyster, Joyce Wieland, Bayeux Tapestry

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2158A/B
• Professor: Sonia Halpern

Document Summary

Aspects of feminist art history we need to know before we can start doing our work in other classes. Five themes/aspects in which feminism and art history intersect. Outline: research into history of past & present women artists, rediscovery of works by women, reinterpretation of works by women artists, examining the imagery of women by male artists. Improving the status & condition of present women artists. Feminism & art history really came together at the end of the 1960s and early 1970s. Argues that it wasn"t that women had some inherent inability to become great artists; it"s that society had all of these social constructs that prevented it from happening. In a patriarchal society, these constructs were designed so that women couldn"t become great artists. Nochlin"s article took the feminist art community by storm because nobody had thought of it before. Women biologically unable to become artists (pfft. )