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Sexing the Canvas: Art and Gender

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Course Summary

Explore the intersection of gender and art with this course. Learn how art has been used to shape and challenge gender norms throughout history.

Key Learning Points

Discover how gender has been represented in art throughout history
Learn about the ways in which art has challenged and reinforced gender norms
Examine the work of contemporary artists who are exploring gender and sexuality in new and innovative ways

Job Positions & Salaries of people who have taken this course might have

- USA: $60,000 - $80,000
- India: INR 6,00,000 - INR 8,00,000
- Spain: €40,000 - €60,000
- USA: $60,000 - $80,000
- India: INR 6,00,000 - INR 8,00,000
- Spain: €40,000 - €60,000
- USA: $45,000 - $70,000
- India: INR 4,50,000 - INR 7,00,000
- Spain: €30,000 - €50,000
- USA: $60,000 - $80,000
- India: INR 6,00,000 - INR 8,00,000
- Spain: €40,000 - €60,000
- USA: $45,000 - $70,000
- India: INR 4,50,000 - INR 7,00,000
- Spain: €30,000 - €50,000
- USA: $30,000 - $60,000
- India: INR 3,00,000 - INR 6,00,000
- Spain: €20,000 - €40,000

Learning Outcomes

Develop a deeper understanding of the intersection of gender and art
Gain insight into how art has been used to shape and challenge gender norms
Explore the work of contemporary artists who are pushing the boundaries of gender and sexuality in art

Prerequisites or good to have knowledge before taking this course

Basic knowledge of art history
Willingness to engage with challenging and provocative ideas

Course Difficulty Level

Intermediate

Course Format

Self-paced online course
Video lectures
Reading assignments
Quizzes and assignments

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Description

What do paintings tell us about sex? How is art gendered? In this course we will study some of the world’s most beloved pictures guided by expert curators and art historians who step outside of the square, bringing a gendered reading to the masterpieces contained in the magnificent collections that we have been lucky enough to bring to the Coursera platform. In this course you will learn how:

* Gender and sexuality is an integral part of the production and reception of works of art * To increase your understanding of paintings through theories of gender and sexuality * To understand key terms from gender-related theories of art history and museology * To recognise the operation of what is termed ‘the gaze’ and how it works in relation to paintings * Ideas about gender and sexuality can productively be employed in theorising art curatorial practices * To take the initiative in relating theoretical ideas about gender and sexuality to the reading and display of art and visual cultures. View the MOOC promotional video here: http://tinyurl.com/hm7qbl3

Outline

Tiepolo’s Cleopatra
Welcome to Sexing the Canvas!
1:1 Tiepolo’s Cleopatra: Agency in Paint
1:2 Cleopatra: Female Pharaoh and Ruler of a Cosmopolitan World
1:3 Ways of Seeing: The Power of the Gaze
Course Overview
Start of Course Survey
Your Teaching Team
Week 1 Outline
Readings
1. Painting, Agency and the Gaze - This quiz contributes 11% towards your final grade

The Culture of Sensibility and the ‘Man of Feeling’
2:1 What is the Culture of Sensibility?
2:2 Painting Sensibility: Gainsborough's Officer of the Fourth Regiment of Foot
2:3 Gainsborough's Man of Feeling: animals, soldiers and chivalry
Week 2 Outline
2. The Culture of Sensibility and the ‘Man of Feeling’ - This quiz contributes 11% towards your final grade

Gainsborough at the Huntington
3:1 Music and the Senses: Gainsborough’s Portrait of Karl Friedrich Abel
3:2 The Ligoniers: The Tensions of Gender in Paint
3:3 The Blue Boy: Effeminacy and the Culture of Sensibility
3:4 Gainsborough’s Cottage Door: Charity and Sensibility
Week 3 Outline
3. Gainsborough at the Huntington - This quiz contributes 11% towards your final grade

Sexual Codes in Eighteenth Century French Courtly Painting
4:1 Seduction in the Court of Louis XV: Boucher’s pastoral paintings
4:2 Madame de Pompadour: Controlling the Gaze
4:3 Fragonard: Sex and the Circulation of Popular Culture
Week 4 Outline
4. Sexual Codes in Eighteenth Century French Courtly Painting - This quiz contributes 11% towards your final grade

Orientalism, Gender and Display - Painting in Morocco
5:1 John Lavery’s In Morocco: orientalism and the academy
5:2 Wives and Models: Hazel Lavery and the politics of display
5:3 Women in Public Space: Hilda Rix Nicholas in Morocco
Week 5 Outline
5. Orientalism, Gender and Display - This quiz contributes 11% towards your final grade

Henri Rousseau: Challenging the Myth of the Passive Woman
6:1 Henri Rousseau’s The Dream: Eve in the jungle
6:2 Dreaming with Animals: Rousseau’s Sleeping Gypsy
Week 6 Outline
6. Henri Rousseau - This quiz contributes 11% towards your final grade

Henri Matisse, Paul Cezanne and Max Dupain - Modernism, Gender and the Science of Movement
7:1 Restaging the Nude: Matisse’s Dance
7:2 Cezanne’s Bather: Masculinity and Movement
7:3 The Sunbaker: Australian Men on the Beach
Week 7 Outline
7. Modernism, gender and the science of movement - This quiz contributes 11% to your final grade

Frida Kahlo, Glyn Philpot and the Struggle to Paint
8:1 Woman and Animal: Frida Kahlo’s Fulang-Chang and I
8:2 Queering the Canvas: Frida Kahlo’s retablo
8:3 Myth and Sexuality: Glyn Philpot’s Oedipus
Week 8 Outline
8. Sexuality and dissonance - This quiz contributes 11% to your final grade

What is Women’s Business? Indigenous Art and the Dreaming
9:1 What is Women’s Business?
9:2 Big Yam Dreaming: Emily Kam Kngwarreye’s masterpiece
9:3 Owning the Dreaming: Women’s stories
Week 9 Outline
Congratulations!
9. What is Women’s Business? - This quiz contributes 12% to your final grade

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