Introduction
 
Welcome to Women Artists in Art History!

 

 

 

Here's an introduction to the material we will be studying this semester....

 

Snake Goddess

Snake Goddess from Knossos. c. 1650 BC.
http://employees.oneonta.edu/farberas/arth/Images/ARTH209images/minoan/snake_goddess.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Bayeux Tapestry

The Battle of Hastings. Detail of the Bayeux Tapestry. c. 1086.
Janson, H.W. and Anthony F. Janson. History of Art. Sixth edition. University of North Carolina, Wilmington: Prentice Hall, Inc., 2001.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Anguissola Self-Portrait

Sofonisba Anguissola. Self-portrait. 1561.

Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting

Artemisia Gentileschi. Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting. 1630s.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Judith Beheading Holofernes

Artemisia Gentileschi. Judith Decapitating Holofernes. c. 1618.
Hayum, Andrea. "Orazio & Artemisia." Art in America. September 2002: 104 - 113, 145 & 147.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cornelia Pointing to Her Children as Her Treasures

Angelica Kauffmann. Cornelia Pointing to Her Children as Her Treasures. c. 1785.
Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. Revised Second ed. Vol. 2. New York: Prentice Hall Inc., and Harry N. Abrams, 2005.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Zenobia in Chains

Harriet Hosmer. Zenobia in Chains. 1859.
Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. Revised Second ed. Vol. 2. New York: Prentice Hall Inc., and Harry N. Abrams, 2005.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Beatrice Cenci

Julia Margaret Cameron.  Beatrice Cenci.  c. 1860.
http://files.splinder.com/d7099e9c2412caebd016f11a6101b070.jpeg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Paula Modersohn-Becker. Self-Portrait with Amber Necklace. 1906.
Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. Revised Second ed. Vol. 2. New York: Prentice Hall Inc., and Harry N. Abrams, 2005.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dorothea Lange. Migrant Mother, Nipomo, California. 1936.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Broken Column

Frida Kahlo. The Broken Column. 1944.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Georgia O- Keefe. Two Calla Lillies on Pink. 1928.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mountains and Sea

Helen Frankenthaler. Mountains and Sea. 1952. 7' 2" X 9' 8".
Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. Revised Second ed. Vol. 2. New York: Prentice Hall Inc., and Harry N. Abrams, 2005.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Interior Scroll

Carolee Schneeman. Interior . 1975 - 1977.
Slatkin, Wendy. Women Artists in History: From Antiquity to the Present. Fourth ed. Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ. 2001.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maya Lin.  Vietnam Veterans Memorial.  Black granite.  492’ long, height of wall at center 10’ 1”.  Washington D.C.  1980 - 1982.
http://plaidnet.greenwichacademy.org/arthistoryslides/slideidgal/MODERNISM/LATE20THCENTURY/late20th39.jpg

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Cindy Sherman. Untitled Film Still #6. 1979.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Barbara Kruger. Untitled (Your body is a battleground). 1989.
Hirsch, Robert. Seizing the Light: A History of Photography. Boston: McGraw Hill, 2000.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kara Walker.  Exhibition at the Renaissance Society.  1997.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nicole Cawlfield. Anti-Atkins Thin-Up Girl Lacy.  2005.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Kitchen

Liza Lou. Kitchen. 1991 - 94.
Ollman, Leah. "Liza Lou’s American Dream." Art in America. June 1998: 98-101 & 122.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Liza Lou.  Kitchen (detail).  1991 - 94.
http://pamrubert.com/Images/Blogpix/06May/lizalou_sink.jpg