Universität Wien

080083 PS Case Study I: Lee Krasner and Abstract Expressionism (2025S)

10.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 8 - Kunstgeschichte und Europäische Ethnologie
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Th 12.06. 16:15-17:45 Seminarraum 4 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte (1. Stock) UniCampus Hof 9 3F-O1-27

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Language: German

Lecturers

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The case study requires students to attend a mandatory tutorial covering the basics of research and academic work. The tutorial will take place on 7 sessions after the case study at 18:00-19:30, Seminarraum 1.

Dates:
Donnerstag 13.03.2025: literature/ databases
Donnerstag 20.03.2025: guided tour of the library (meeting point Seminarraum 1, 17:55)
Donnerstag 27.03.2025: types of papers/texts
Donnerstag 03.04.2025: presentation training
Donnerstag 10.04.2025: finding a topic / citation I
Donnerstag 08.05.2025: citation II/ paper
Donnerstag 15.05.2025: writing your paper

Tutorin: Eva Walser (eva.walser@univie.ac.at)

  • Thursday 06.03. 16:15 - 17:45 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
  • Thursday 13.03. 16:15 - 17:45 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
  • Thursday 20.03. 16:15 - 17:45 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
  • Thursday 27.03. 16:15 - 17:45 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
  • Wednesday 02.04. 19:00 - 21:30 Seminarraum 2 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-20
  • Thursday 03.04. 16:15 - 17:45 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
  • Thursday 10.04. 16:15 - 17:45 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
  • Thursday 08.05. 16:15 - 17:45 Seminarraum 4 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte (1. Stock) UniCampus Hof 9 3F-O1-27
  • Thursday 15.05. 16:15 - 17:45 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
  • Thursday 22.05. 16:15 - 17:45 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
  • Thursday 05.06. 16:15 - 17:45 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07
  • Thursday 26.06. 16:15 - 17:45 Seminarraum 1 d. Inst. f. Kunstgeschichte UniCampus Hof 9 3F-EG-07

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Aims, contents and method of the course

With Lee Krasner (1908-1984), the Fallstudie focuses on one of the most important representatives of Abstract Expressionism and uses her work as a starting point for discussing key historical, theoretical, and methodological questions of modern painting. This includes, in particular, feminist canon criticism, since the reception of Abstract Expressionism or the "New York School" has focused on its white, male representatives to this day, and the hetero-masculine performance of artistic identity dominates the notion of an exemplarily represented Abstract Expressionism (e.g. Action Painting, loner, hero, cowboy, laconic doer, misunderstood genius, potential violent criminal). Against this background, the Fallstudie provides an introduction to the aesthetics and mediality of Abstract Expressionism, which revolves around topics such as individual expression, abstraction, action painting, big canvas, all-over, the unconscious, freedom, and aesthetic experience. At the same time, the focus on Lee Krasner will allow us to repeatedly reflect on and critically examine the canonical reception of Abstract Expressionism from a gender perspective. The fact that Krasner was also Jackson Pollock's wife and, after his death in 1956, his widow and executor makes her an case study in the relationship between gender and art in the 20th century that is as complex as it is productive.

Given the topic, the methodological focus is on gender studies, but other methodological approaches such as the social history of art, art and politics, and the history of exhibitions and institutions will also be covered. At the same time, we will place a second focus on close readings and the precise observation and analysis of the form of artworks, as well as getting to know source formats such as art criticism, art theoretical essays, interviews, press releases and artists' writings.

Assessment and permitted materials

- aktive Beteiligung und Präsentation des Hausarbeitsthemas
- Verfassen von 1 Bildbeschreibung und 1 Thesenpapier während des Semesters
- Vertiefung in Form einer schriftlichen Hausarbeit (10.000-15.000 Zeichen)
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Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Mindestanforderung:
- Anwesenheitspflicht. Bei Absenz wegen Krankheit oder familiärer Ausnahmesituation ist ein schriftlicher Nachweis vorzulegen.
- Für einen positiven Abschluss der Lehrveranstaltung müssen alle Teilleistungen erbracht werden (inkl. Teilnahme an allen Tutoriumseinheiten).
- Seminararbeit: Zur Sicherung der guten wissenschaftlichen Praxis kann die Lehrveranstaltungsleitung Studierende zu einem notenrelevanten Gespräch nach Abgabe der Arbeit einladen, welches positiv zu absolvieren ist.

Beurteilungsmaßstab:
- aktive Beteiligung und Präsentation Thema Hausarbeit 15%
- Bildbeschreibung und Thesenpapier 30 %
- schriftlichen Hausarbeit 55%

Notenschlüssel:
1 (sehr gut) ; 2 (gut) ; 3 (befriedigend) ; 4 (genügend) ; 5 (nicht genügend)

Examination topics

Prüfungsstoff ist der Inhalt der Lehrveranstaltung.

Reading list

Yve-Alain Bois, Hal Foster, Benjamin Buchloh, Rosalind Krauss, Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism, London 2004, 404-410 (1947b)/411-415 (1949a).
Mary Gabriel, Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elainde de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler. Five Painters and the Movement that Changed Modern Art, Boston 2018.
Ann Eden Gibson, Abstract Expressionism: Other Politics, New Haven 1997.
Linda Nochlin, Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists? (1971), in: dies., Women, Art, and Power, New York 1988, 145-178.
Anne M. Wagner, Krasner’s Fictions, in: dies., Three Artists (Three Women). Modernism and the Art of Hesse, Krasner, and O`Keeffe, Berkeley 1996, 105-190.

Interview von Barbaralee Diamonstein-Spielvogel mit Lee Krasner, Inside New York's Art World, 1978:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fp5Cp-2HVxg&t=153s&ab_channel=DukeLibDigitalColl

Weitere Literatur wird zu Beginn der Fallstudie angegeben und im Handapparat bereitgestellt.

Association in the course directory

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