Gender Violence, Art, and the Viewer

Ellen C. Caldwell is Professor of Art History at Mt. San Antonio College. She is the author of Paula Rego: Art Souvenir.Cynthia S. Colburn is Blanche E. Seaver Chair of Fine Arts at Pepperdine University. She is the coauthor of The History of Art: A Global View and coeditor of Reading a Dynamic Canvas: Adornment in the Ancient Mediterranean World.Ella J. Gonzalez is a PhD candidate in History of Art at Johns Hopkins University. She is the coauthor, with Cynthia S. Colburn, of “How to Teach Ancient Art in the Age of #MeToo,” which was published in Hyperallergic.

• ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Gender Violence and Art HistoryEllen C. Caldwell, Cynthia S. Colburn, and Ella J. GonzalezPart 1: Reckoning with Violence in the Canon: Pedagogical and Art-Historical Approaches1. Women and Violence in Ancient Greek Art: Subverting the Dominant NarrativeCynthia S. Colburn and Ella J. Gonzalez2. Invisible Casualties: Gender Violence in Assyrian Relief SculpturesMegan Cifarelli3. An Unmentionable History: The Stigma of Sodomy and Images of Violence Toward Queer and Trans Peoples in Premodern EuropeBryan C. Keene4. Breaking the Silence: Depictions of Gender-Based Violence and Sexual Violation in Italian Renaissance and Baroque ArtLisa Rafanelli5. Teaching About Gendered and Racialized Violence in Colonial Mexican Art: The Case of Malintzin and Other ChallengesCharlene Villaseñor Black6. Sexing the Canvas: The Rape Narrative of the Black Female Body in Western History PaintingsIndira Bailey7. Cultivating a Humanizing Gaze: Viewership, Consumption, and Complicity in Art and Film After #MeTooEllen C. Caldwell and Natalie MadrigalPart 2: Transformational Curatorial Practices: ShiftingEducational Practices in Public Spaces8. Subverting Patriarchy in Art Museums: Strategies for the Anti-Oppressive Art Museum EducatorHallie Rose Scott and Theresa Sotto9. Why It’s Impossible to Separate the Art from the Artist: An Educator’s Experience with Gauguin and PicassoVeronica Alvarez10. To Censor or to Teach: Educational Reflections on a Foundational ExhibitionMonika Fabijanska11. An Overwhelming Response: Gender-Based Violence and Contemporary Feminist ArtCarmen Hermo12. Bring Her Home: Awareness, Advocacy, Resistance, and HealingAngela Two StarsPart 3: Art and/as Advocacy13. Gender Violence, Censorship, and Erasure: A Conversation with Ria Brodell About Contemporary Art, Practice, and PedagogyRia Brodell and Ellen C. Caldwell14. Amio: Gender-Based Violence in Contemporary Bangladeshi ArtMelia Belli Bose15. Anti-Rape and Anti-Incest Counternarratives: Art in the United States Since the 1960s and in the Wake of the #MeToo MovementVivien Green Fryd16. Considering Unseen Violence: Zanele Muholi’s Faces and PhasesNicole ScalissiConclusion: Moving Forward—A New Era in Art HistoryEllen C. Caldwell, Cynthia S. Colburn, and Ella J. GonzalezResource AppendixList of ContributorsIndex

“Gender Violence, Art, and the Viewer addresses an array of themes and will be useful to museum curators, students, and educators in gender studies, art history, classics studies, fine arts, and more. It lends momentum to a ‘public reckoning’ in art history to account for how violence against women and minority groups and sexual violence are glorified in revered works and are too often left unaddressed in studies of prominent artists throughout history.”—Mahaliah Little, University of California, Irvine