Wednesday 4:30 - 7:30 p.m.
3 credits
(location varies and attendance at several additional lectures required)
Maximum: 20 students
Admission to class requires authorization

Faculty:
Indiana University Visiting Instructor, artist, and author Judy Chicago
Professor Peg Brand (Gender Studies, Philosophy, IUB)
Professor Jean Robertson (Art History, Herron School of Art, IUPUI)

This class will be team-taught under 3 separate course listings by artist/author Judy Chicago, philosopher Peg Brand (IUB), and art historian Jean Robertson (IUPUI), and will explore the history and theoretical foundations of the concept of "feminist art:" the lack of consensus in defining the term in spite of recurring subject matter and ideological perspectives.

We will explore such questions as: How is feminist art to be defined? Is feminist art only made by women? Is feminist art only intended for a female audience? Must its subject matter be exclusively issues of female identity?

A portion of the class will be based upon a book written by Chicago and Edward Lucie-Smith entitled, Women in Art: Contested Territory (forthcoming, Watson-Guptill Publications, Fall 1999) which presents images of women in western art by both male and female artists and the struggle over the representation of the female body.

The classroom experience will be augmented by:

• a class visit and additional lectures by visiting art critic Edward Lucie Smith (9/15,17@ IUB; 9/16@IUPUI)
• a class visit (10/20) and additional lecture at the Indianapolis Museum of Art (10/21) by art critic Lucy R. Lippard
• interaction and several joint meetings with Judy Chicago's Fine Arts project class (U750/U450). Students will write art critiques about U750/U450 class artworks.
• interaction and a joint meeting with Professor Enid Zimmerman's Art Education class: Z550/G602: Gender and Diversity Issues in Art and Education (W, 4:30-7:00 pm)
• an exhibition of Chicago's "Trials and Tributes: A Judy Chicago Retrospective" (Works on Paper) which will be on view at the Indiana University Art Museum September 1 - October 31, 1999.

Required reading before start of semester:
Judy Chicago, Beyond the Flower: The Autobiography of a Feminist Artist (NY:Viking/Penguin, 1996)
(available from www.judychicago.com)
Lucy R. Lippard, Pink Glass Swan: Selected Essays on Feminist Art (NY:New Press, 1995)
Peggy Zeglin Brand and Carolyn Korsmeyer (eds), Feminism and Tradition in Aesthetics

Admission to class based on a one-page statement of intent (please explain why you desire to enroll in this class) plus a 3-4 page writing sample: due no later than March 1, 1999

Send (3 copies of application, including email address) to: Professor Peg Brand (pbrand@indiana.edu)
Gender Studies
130 Memorial Hall East
Indiana University
Bloomington, IN 47405
FAX: 812-855 4869