During the semester we will conduct a critical survey of the feminist art produced by women artists during the 1970s in the United States. We will stress the importance and contribution of this art movement to both modern as well as postmodern art.

The political and cultural climate of the late 1960s – social revolutions such as the African-American and Gay struggle for equal rights; the Hippie movement and the Anti-War movement - gave rise to the Women's Liberation Movement and to the Feminist art movement. During the lessons we will introduce prominent artists of that movement, such as Judy Chicago, Ana Mendieta, and Martha Rosler. We will be acquainted with the various mediums and contents of their art, and will introduce theoretical sources from which they were influenced. Several notions, central to the feminist critical discourse, such as The Gaze and The Voice will be used.

Towards the end of the course we will survey some of the American women artists of the next generation of feminist art, among them Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer, Lorna Simpson and Kara Walker.