Topic: American Queer Aesthetics

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This course is a survey of the major art movements and artists that have shaped the perception of queerness—and the recognition of LGBTQ+ communities—in the U.S. since 1900. Locating queer aesthetics and art practices (including visual art, fashion or self-fashioning, and other fields of humanistic and creative expression) in the tradition of American countercultures, we will be constructing a timeline of queer history in the U.S. based on discourses of sensation, perspective, and embodiment that are certainly not exclusive to the spectrum LGBTQ+ identities which find themselves emerging alongside new works of art, decade by decade, to the present and beyond.