ARTARCH 408 Gender in Contemporary Art  Tags: art_history feminist gender  

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This is the library research guide for Professor Rebecca DeRoo's course Gender in Contemporary Art, Art History & Archaeology 408.

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We will study artists from 1960 to the present whose work thematizes gender, including Carl Andre, Robert Morris, Cindy Sherman, Lorna Simpson, and Mona Hatoum, and discuss how their work raises questions about representation of the body, spectatorship, and notions of identity. We will consider how gender theory has encouraged art historians to rethink writing and research methods: the topics we choose, the structure of our arguments, our relation to our subjects, and the audience we address.