Course Schedule
Lehrveranstaltungen
Collecting Women (Seminar)
Dozent/in: Max Koß, Lynn Rother
Termin:
wöchentlich | Donnerstag | 14:15 - 15:45 | 18.10.2021 - 04.02.2022 | C 40.153 Seminarraum
Inhalt: The year 2021 marks the 50th anniversary of the publication of Linda Nochlin’s groundbreaking essay “Why have there been no great women artists?” While feminist art history has since then had far reaching consequences in the field of art history, highlighting in particular the role and accomplishments of female artists, this course takes the anniversary of this foundational text as an opportunity to expand the view on the role of women in the arts. The course aims to combine the fundamental insights of feminist art history with more recent approaches, themselves an outgrowth of the feminist turn, to look at ongoing structural oversights within the field of art history. The way art history continues to be written today perpetuates structural biases and exclusions, manifesting themselves in places as varied as wikipedia, or indeed, in museum databases. Therefore, this class takes a historical approach to the variety of activities women in the arts were engaged in to draw out a much richer picture of female entanglements in the world of art, not only as muses or artists themselves, but also as actors in the art market or as collectors. The course will rely in important ways on the work done by Prof. Rother’s research group on provenances of modern art works. Students will thus gain insights in various aspects of the art historical discipline, from art historical writing proper, to learning about the role and function of provenances, to methodological and theoretical considerations, such as institutional critique, social art history, network theory, or art market studies