Skills you'll gain

There are 9 modules in this course

* 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

The Culture of Sensibility and the ‘Man of Feeling’

Gainsborough at the Huntington

Sexual Codes in Eighteenth Century French Courtly Painting

Orientalism, Gender and Display - Painting in Morocco

Henri Rousseau: Challenging the Myth of the Passive Woman

Henri Matisse, Paul Cezanne and Max Dupain - Modernism, Gender and the Science of Movement

Frida Kahlo, Glyn Philpot and the Struggle to Paint

What is Women’s Business? Indigenous Art and the Dreaming

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