ART 250 WOMEN AND THE ARTS
This course intends to encourage an intelligent investigation of the role of women vis-à- vis the arts, across cultures, social strata, and race, from antiquity to the present. An analysis of the historical portrayal of women as aesthetic objects, as well as an examination of their increasingly diverse associations with the arts as practitioners, investors, connoisseurs, brokers, et cetera. The visual, literary, and performing arts, including film, are explored.