Art History 291 - COLQ:TOPICS IN ART HISTORY

Topics course. This course will serve two functions: first, to think about the ways that feminism has engaged with the museum, one of the most important institutions of art history, and second, to participate in the preparations for an exhibition on feminism and abstraction that will take place at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in Spring 2013. We will talk about a historical engagement by women and feminist artists with the museum as a site of critique and protest; art historical analyses of the ideologies of collection and display by scholars engaged with feminist ideas; the history of feminist art exhibitions; and the question of how one might imagine a feminist curatorial practice. (E)

Topic: Feminism and the Museum.