Women As Visual Artists I: A Women's Art History

This course presents an overview of a women's art history in the Western art tradition from its beginnings to Modernism in the 1960s. It examines significant women artists and the issues that impacted their lives as artists; factors that mitigated against women becoming practicing artists; and the development of scholarship devoted to a women's art history. (lec 3) cr 3. Students may not retain credit for both WOMN 2006 and WOMN 2005.