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080059 UE Women Art Collectors: Modernity, Fashion and Taste (2010S)

Continuous assessment of course work

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max. 25 participants
Language: English

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  • Friday 05.03. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
  • Friday 19.03. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
  • Friday 26.03. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
  • Friday 16.04. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
  • Friday 23.04. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
  • Friday 30.04. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
  • Friday 07.05. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
  • Friday 14.05. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
  • Friday 21.05. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
  • Friday 28.05. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
  • Friday 04.06. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
  • Friday 11.06. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
  • Friday 18.06. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
  • Friday 25.06. 11:00 - 12:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20

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Aims, contents and method of the course

Women influenced modern art - not only as artists, models and art critics but to a large extent also as art collectors from the beginning of the twentieth century till today. This course examines the contribution of women art collectors to the creation, display and marketing of modernism in Europe and in the U.S. The course will discuss the importance of famous collectors such as Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Lillie P. Bliss, Gertrude Stein and Peggy Guggenheim for the development of canonized modernism and examine the achievements of women art collectors as authorities in art, fashion and taste.

Assessment and permitted materials

Critical theme paper presentation in class (25%), written version of theme paper (50%), second paper on an Austrian woman art collector (25%)

* Obligatory presence in all lectures
* The engagement in the discussions during the course will be evaluated and will contribute to the final grade.

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

The course offers a review of the tradition of women art collectors in the twentieth century.

Examination topics

Questions concerning motivation, activities, gender aspects and influence on modern art would be discussed and analyzed based on autobiographies, biographies, museum publications on the collections, essays and monographs on the collectors. The course further offers an examination of the changing roles of women in Western culture during the twentieth century. These questions would be examined using theories on collecting, gender identity, culture politics and criteria of canonizing art.

Reading list

Selected bibliography (full list included with syllabus at the semesterapparat):
Achenbaum, Andrew W., "The Spiritual Lanscapes of Dominique de Menil," in: Journal of Religion, Spirituality and Aging, University of Houston, Houston, Vol. 21, Issue 3, July 2009, 145-158.
Alpern, Sara (ed.,) The Challenge of Feminist Biography, Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1992 (Lois Rudnick, „The Male-Identified Woman and Other Anxieties: The Life of Mabel Dodge Luhan“) (ONB, OBW Geschichtswissenschaft)
Altschuler, Bruce (ed.,) Museums of Contemporary Art – Collecting the New, Princeton, 2005.
Barr, Alfred & Jerome Klein, The Lillie P. Bliss Collection, New York, MOMA, 1934.
Barter, Judith, Mary Cassatt: Modern Woman, New York: Abrams, 1998.
Bay-Cheng, Sarah, Mama Dada: Gertrude Stein’s Avant-Garde Theater, New York and London, Routledge, 2004 (UBW)
Bayer, Waltraud, "Im Schatten der Erinnerung: Kunstsammlerinnen in der Sowjetunion, 1917-1991," in: Österreichische Osthefte, 3-4/2003, 447-467.
Beauvoir, Simone de, The Second Sex, London: Pan Books, 1988.
Belk, Russell W., Collecting in a Consumer Society, London: Routledge, 1995. (UBW)
Belk, Russell W., and Melanie Wallendorf, "'of Mice and Men': Gender Identity in Collecting," in: The Material Culture of Gender/ The Gender of Material Culture, Katherine Martinez and Kenneth L. Ames (eds.,) Winterthur, DE: Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum, 1997 (Angewandte)
Belmont, Eleanor in Memorial Exhibition: The Collection of the Late Miss Lillie P. Bliss, Vice-President of the Museum. New York, Museum of Modern Art, 1931.
Bergmann, Ulrike, "Das Bild von Gertrude Stein von Picasso. Picassos Porträt und Steins Frage nach der Autorschaft" in: Hoffmann-Curtius, Kathrin (ed.,) Mythen von Autorschaft und Weiblichkeit im 20. Jahrhundert, Marburg: Junas-Verlag, 1997 (UBW, Angewandte)
Berman, Avis, Rebels on the Eighth Street, Juliana Force and the Whitney Museum of Art, New York: Atheneum Press, 1990 (Kunstgeschichte Institute)
Biddle, Flora Miller, The Whitney Women and the Museum They Made: A Family Memoir, Arcade Publishing, 1999
Biedermann, Heike, Von Monet bis Mondrian: Meisterwerke der Moderne aus Dresdner Privatsammlungen der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts, München: Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2006.
(Ida Bienert, Akademie)
Bilski, Emily and Emily Braun (ed.,) Jewish Women and their Salons: The Power of Conversation, Yale University Press, 2005; (Angewandte, Judaistik)
Bloom, Harold, Gertrude Stein, New York, 1986. (Salzburg University)
Borcherdt, Gesine and Silke Hohmann, "Ingvild Goetz und Julia Stoscheck: Zwei Generationen, eine Leidenschaft," in: Monopol, 6/2007, 80-89.
Brentzel, Marianne, Ute Ruscher, "Ich habe mich geirrt. Was soll's," Margherita Sarfatti Jüdin, Mäzenin, Faschistin, Zürich: Atrium Verlag, 2009.
Calas, Nicolas, The Peggy Guggenheim Collection of Modern Art, New York; Rizzoli, 2001 (ONB)
Clifford, James, "Collecting Ourselves,"in: Idem, The Predicament of Cutlure, Harvard Uni Press, 2002 (Akademie der bildenden Künste, Germanistik)
Clifford, Marie J., "Helena Rubinstein's Beauty Salons, Fashion, and Modernist Display,"Winterthur Portfolio, Vol. 38, No. 2/3, Summer – Autumn, 2003, 83-108. (Jstor)
Csikszentmihalyi, Mikhail and Eugene Rochberg-Halton, The Meaning of Things: Domestic Symbols and the Self, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. (Angewandte, TU, UBW, Soziologie)
Danet, Brenda and Tamar Katriel, "Glorious Obsessions, Passionate Lovers, and Hidden Treasures: Collecting, Metaphor, and the Romantic Ethic,"in: Stephen Harold Riggins (ed.,) The Socialness of Things: Essay on the Socio-Semiotics of Objects, Berlin: Mouton deGryber, 1994, 23-61.
Davidson, Susan (ed.,) Peggy Guggenheim & Frederick Kiesler, Ostfildern-Ruit: Katje, 2004. (UBW, Kunstgeschichte, MAK, Angewandte)
Dearborn, Mary V., Mistress of Modernism: the Life of Peggy Guggenheim, Boston: Houg

Association in the course directory

F 160, F 250

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