The Visual Culture of American Women’s Suffrage

2020 marks the centennial of the passage of the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing American women the right to vote.  Any understanding of the long and heroic struggle for women’s suffrage must consider the artworks, objects, relics, and texts associated with it.  In this lively, narrated PowerPoint lecture, Prof. Pohlad relates well-known and not-so-well-known items to women’s fight for the vote, to art history, and to American history overall.  Sculptures, postcards, photographs, costumes, and graphic art are part of this investigation of the dynamic visual culture of one of the great––and ongoing––stories in American civil rights.  Mark Pohlad, PhD, is Associate Professor of Art History at DePaul University, in Chicago, where he teaches courses on American art, modern art, the history of photography, and Abraham Lincoln.

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