FYS 117D SEX AND BODY IN W ART

Sex, Class, And The Body In Western Art  Course examines the sexual body in art from the Renaissance to Abstract Expressionism.  Topics include the rise of a Renaissance bodily aesthetic, ideas on sexuality, deified and demonized female bodies (angels, goddesses, witches, hysterics, and femme fatales), the male nude, and class and the body (beauty, ugliness, grotesque).

Credits

4

Registration Restrictions

Open to first-year students only.

Enrollment Limit

Enrollment limited to 16 students.

Attributes

MOIE, W