Gender and Sexuality in Art

Catalog description

Surveys chronologically the role gender and sexuality have played in art and examines the role that art has played in both reinforcing and challenging dominant theories of gender identity. The course examines intersections between gender/sexuality and class, race, and politics represented in art through a lens of feminism and post-colonialism. Topics include pictorial constructions of femininity and masculinity, objectification of the body, patronage and the art market, gaze, colonialism, identity politics, and protest art.