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Semester 1

Feminist Avant-gardes of the 1970s (HIAR10200)

Subject

History of Art

College

CAHSS

Credits

20

Normal Year Taken

3

Delivery Session Year

2023/2024

Pre-requisites

Visiting students must have completed 3 History of Art courses at grade B or above, and please note that we will not consider History courses unrelated to Art, or practical Art courses, towards these pre-requisites. We will only consider University/College level courses. Please see Additional Restrictions below.

Course Summary

This course explores feminist avant-gardes of the 1970s in an international range of contexts. The course is structured as a series of two-hour sessions consisting of introductory lectures followed by seminars. The sessions will focus each week on different artists working in a variety of media and across different national and feminist contexts.

Course Description

'Feminist avant-gardes of the 1970s' encompasses a range of women artists who overturned male-centred notions of the avant-garde and established radical new visions of how art can be political. This course examines women artists (including for example ORLAN, Renate Bertlmann, and Betye Saar) of different nationalities, working in a variety of media ranging from painting and photography to film and performance. (Artists covered may change from year to year.) Focussing on detailed readings of individual works and oeuvres in relation to contemporary political and cultural events and contexts and theoretical statements by artists and critics, we will explore and analyse the diverse aesthetic practices of these artists and examine their philosophical and political critiques of gender, race, and class. The course will include film showings and guest speakers, and seminars will be student- and discussion led.

Assessment Information

Written Exam 50%, Coursework 50%, Practical Exam 0%

Additional Restrictions

Unless you are nominated on a History of Art exchange agreement, visiting students are only permitted to enrol in one 3rd year History of Art course each, per semester, before the start of the relevant semester’s welcome period – and spaces on each course are limited so cannot be guaranteed for any student. Enrolment in a second course from this group will depend on whether there are still spaces available in the September Welcome Period, and cannot be guaranteed. It is NOT appropriate for students to contact staff within this subject area to ask for an exception to be made; all enquiries to enrol in these courses must be made through the CAHSS Visiting Student Office. This is due to the extremely limited number of spaces available in this very popular subject area.

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