Art Appreciation:Five Centuries of Women Sculptors

The course follows the history of women sculptors as unearthed by a number of female art historians. Scholars such as: Marjan Sterchx profiling 18th Century sculptor Mary Damer; Melissa Dakakis writing about 19th Century sculptor Harriet Hosmer; and Marilyn Richardson discovering Edmonia Lewis ,the first women sculptor of African American descent to achieve international recognition in the 19th Century. Taking women sculptors such as Camille Claudel, Marie-Anne Collot, and Malvina Hoffman out of the shadows of their male counterparts. The course will also examine the move away from traditional materials of wood, clay, bronze, plaster, and marble used by 20th Century sculptors such as Barbara Hepworth, and Elizabeth Frink to the found industrial objects used by Eva Hesse, and in the installations of Louise Bourgeois. As well as examining sculptures made from a variety of materials and processes by the female Young British Artists (YBAs). Sculptures made from women’s tight by Sarah Lucas, found objects crushed by a steamroller by Cornelia Parker, to the infamous cast of Victorian a terraced house in London’s East End, demolished by the Council, by Rachel Whiteread. All women artists who have been recognised with solo retrospectives at Tate Britain in the 21st Century.