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UE: ART 110HM: Curves Ahead: Online resources
ART 110HM- Curves Ahead: Artists & The Female Form
Resources: Articles and Encyclopedic Entries
- A 1974 Perspective: Why Women's Studies in Art and Art History?A 1974 Perspective: Why Women's Studies in Art and Art History? The author poses the question for the reader: Why do women artists need to be studied? What is the value?
- American Women Artists Groups: 1867-1930Women's Art Clubs came in all sizes, some were professional organizations, others gatherings of happy hobbyists. This is an overview.
- Artistic Women, and Women ArtistsLively discussion of stereotypes concerning art and women.
- Connecting with Art: How Families Talk about Art in a Museum SettingConversation is a natural part of a museum visit, and researchers have discovered that analyzing these conversations provides access to the processes of learning that take place in informal settings.
- Contemporary Native American Women ArtistsOverview of 20th and 21st Century Native American Women Artists
- Feminist Interventions Some Thoughts on Recent Scholarship about Women ArtistsDiscusses recent exhibits at some major museums, as well as how women artists are now being included in textbooks.
- Lost and Found: Once more the Fallen WomanAuthor: Linda Nochlin
- Replaying the Old Stereotypes into an Artistic Role: the case of Tracey EminTracey Emin is perhaps the best-known contemporary female artist in Great Britain today. Emin's artistic persona is situated in the context of art history and her position in relation to art icons such as Mary Kelly, the feminist artist, and Andy Warhol, the pop artist who mastered the art of the public self.
- Strategic Modernists: Women Artists in Post-Revolutionary MexicoHighlights some women artists in post-Revolutionary Mexico
- Women & Art History (Oxford Dictionary of Art)Excellent overview
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Reference Resources
- Oxford Art Online This link opens in a new window
The most comprehensive online reference resource for all aspects of the visual arts worldwide from prehistory to the present day.
Exhibiting Contradiction by ISBN: 9780585084237Publication Date: 1998-01-01In Exhibiting Contradiction, a leading scholar considers the way art museums have depicted -- and continue to depict -- American society and the American past. In closely focused and often controversial essays, Alan Wallach explores the opposing ideologies that drove the development of the American art museum in the nineteenth century and the tensions and contradictions characteristic of recent museum history.
New Museum Theory and Practice by ISBN: 9781405148825Contains 12 original essays that contribute to the field while creating a collective whole for course use. Discusses theory through vivid examples and historical overviews. Offers guidance on how to put theory into practice. Covers a range of museums around the world.
NOTE CH 9: Visiting the Virtual Museum: Art and Experience Online
