Cost and Registration Information
Early Registration Price (by February 10): $240
Regular Price (after February 10): $264
Seminar Description
This seminar focuses on the achievements made by women in the visual arts from the Middle Ages to the present. Besides exploring the artistic development of individual artists in Western culture, we will examine the conditions and contexts in which these artists worked and their relationships to society and to each other. In addition, we will consider how their works relate to the broader artistic concerns of the times. Eight sessions.
Margaret Farr is an art historian who has worked at the Art Institute of Chicago for over 18 years, and has taught at the Newberry, St. Xavier University, and the University of Chicago’s Graham School.
Materials List
Required:
- Anne Truitt, Daybook: The Journal of an Artist. New York: Scribner, 2013. ISBN-13: 978-1476740980.
- A course pack of additional materials, compiled by the instructor and distributed during the first class, for which there will be a nominal fee.
First Readings:
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Please read pp. 145-178 of “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” in Women, Art, and Power and Other Essays, by Linda Nochlin for the first class. This reading will be sent to participants upon registration.
This class is part of the Newberry’s Adult Education Seminars Program. Learn more about our registration procedures.