Statistics for the Visual Arts
The topic of discussion during this week’s Historiography of Art History class with Julia Walker is Identity and Exclusion. We first read Griselda Pollock and Tamar Garb, which lead to a long tangent about women (us, a class of 8 women) looking for careers in the visual arts and the state of the field of art history. But what does feminism have to do with art history? Well, it’s not about asking who the female counterpart of Michelangelo is. It’s about who’s represented and who’s in positions of power in the art world. In a patriarchal society, it’s pretty grim. It’s not that bad, but it’s… bad. Take a look at the statistics above, which were emailed to us afterward by our professor. In choosing radical change versus incremental change, what’s best? Most of us agree that we’re hesitant to label ourselves as feminists…
Yikes. Just a thought.
Source: haveartwilltravel.org
