Courses of Study 2012-2013 
    
    Mar 29, 2024  
Courses of Study 2012-2013 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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ARTH 4601 - [Space, Gender, Body in Early Modern Art]

(crosslisted)
(also FGSS 4601 , VISST 4601 )
4 credits.

Next offered 2013-2014. Co-meets with ARTH 6601 /FGSS 6601 /VISST 6601 .

L. Pincus.

The body can be everything and nothing. This course investigates the continuities and discontinuities in theories of embodiment and the social construction of body from the ancients to the present. Understanding the body as performative, we’ll examine it through the practices of medicine and anatomy, aesthetics and the nude, manifestations of beauty and the grotesque. Criminal, sinful and saintly bodies; death, the macabre, and the mortal, divine body of Christ; the ambiguous gender of children; the formation of identity through portraiture; the science of sexuality and art of erotics as well as correspondences among bodies, domestic and public spaces, the macrocosm and microcosm will complete our study.



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