Women in modern and contemporary art

City Lit

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Description

  • Type

    Course

  • Location

    London

  • Start date

    Different dates available

We start this 10-session course by looking at the works of women avant-garde artists from such movements as Cubo-Futurism, Suprematism, Constructivism, Dadaism, Surrealism. Post-WWII art will include Abstract Expressionism, body and performance art of the 1960s and 1970s, and the feminist art movement. Works examined will encompass diverse media from painting, sculpture and photography to video and conceptual art, and installations. We will finish by looking at contemporary artists working with new media, and some interdisciplinary practitioners.

Rather than being a comprehensive survey of modern and contemporary women artists, the focus of the sessions will be thematic. Themes include: women and the avant-garde, representations of femininity and masculinity, body-related practices and feminist actions, photographic self-portraiture, women artists and new technologies, and women, cyborgs and animals.

The course is structured around lectures and class discussions exploring the relevant themes, and how historical changes are reflected in the examined artworks.

Warning: This course contains some visual material that is explicit and may be considered disturbing.

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London
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Keeley Street, Covent Garden, WC2B 4BA

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About this course

• Demonstrate improved visual analysis skills by situating works of art in the broader cultural context.
• Name at least three women avant-garde artists, three performance artists and three artists working with new media and describe their works.
• Explain the social, political and cultural relevance of artworks dealing with the representation of the body or body-related practices.

There are no other costs, but you are advised to bring a notebook to the classes. You may like to purchase some of the books suggested on handouts during the course.

You will be taught with slide presentations, group discussions, and short group exercises.

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Subjects

  • Works
  • Sculpture
  • Painting
  • Art
  • Media
  • Modern Contemporary
  • New Media

Course programme

• Painting, sculpture, photography, installations, performance, moving image and new media art works by women artists early twentieth century onwards.
• Artists including Liubov Popova, Hannah Höch, Alexandra Ekster, Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Sonia Delaunay, Claude Cahun, Maya Deren, Dorothea Tanning, Louise Bourgeois, Niki de Saint Phalle, Carolee Schneemann, Hannah Wilke, Yayoi Kusama, Valie Export, Ana Mendieta, Rebecca Horn, Judy Chicago, Barbara Kruger, Francesca Woodman, Cindy Sherman, Laurie Anderson, Dara Birnbaum, Kiki Smith, Guerrilla Girls, Pipilotti Rist and Eija-Liisa Ahtila.
• The social, political and cultural context in which works were created, and the impact of women’s intervention on the development of art movements and the use of new media.

Additional information

General information and advice on courses at City Lit is available from the Student Centre and Library on Monday to Friday from 12:00 – 19:00. See the course guide for term dates and further details

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