Course Schedule and Catalog

Department: Art History

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: SEMINAR ON BEAUTY & FRAGMENTATION IN MODERN ART ***** This course will examine literal and symbolic representations of the body in modern American and European art. Topics addressed will include conceptions of beauty versus subjective fragmentation; the performance nature of social identity; and art history's longstanding preoccupation with the sensuous equivalency of flesh and paint. ***** Also offered as WGST 369. ***** Enrollment limited to 15. ***** Instructor(s): Brennan