Beauty

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Is beauty an extravagance or a necessity? By allowing us to attend to the particular, quotidian and personal, what can beauty teach us about who we are and the kind of histories of art we choose to tell? This reading intensive seminar will draw from contemporary discourses on beauty from Asian American studies, Black studies, performance and queer theory to examine how various artists and thinkers have explored beauty's formal and ethical values. We will trace the shifting valuation, visibility and politicization of beauty and examine how its evolution has informed discourses around minoritized artists, artworks and movements in art history. This course has limited enrollment; if you are interested in enrolling, please email Marci Kwon ([email protected]) for application instructions.