Picturing the genders
By: written and presented by Charles Harrison and Trish Evans ; produced and directed by Tony Coe ; BBC ; Open University
Contributors: British Broadcasting Corporation; Open University; Films for the Humanities (Firm)
Publisher: [Distributed by] Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 31
Subjects: Women painters; Women in art; Women artists; Sex role in art
Other titles: Male and female views of women in art; Introduction to the humanities (Television program)
Description: A documentary that looks at women as artists, as subjects of paintings by both male and female artists, and the roles of and discrimination against women artists historically. Charles Harrison and Trish Evans analyze female subjects painted by Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, Berthe Morisot, Edgar Degas, Auguste Renoir, and others to explore male and female points of view as represented by the artists. Only one per cent of the paintings in the National Gallery's historical collection are by women artists. This programme offers two ways of explaining this statistic -- firstly that women in the past were deprived of the opportunity to become artists;  and secondly, that the artistic vision and legacy of women is still being discriminated against.
Notes: Disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives.

Originally broadcast as a 1998 episode of the telecourse: An introduction to the humanities.

Distribution date from distributor copyright.

Series producer, Amanda Willett ; cameras, John Beck, Pino Mella, Derek Firman ; editors, Richard Fisher, Jessica Day.

DVD-R.