Art History 314 - The Body and Its Image

Institution:

Bard College

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Description:

Photography This seminar examines the West's historical ambivalence toward the body and its representation, as expressed in art of the modern period (1780-2000). Beginning with the neoclassical heroic nude, the course examines depictions of the body that reflect the preoccupations and obsessions of their cultural moments. Topics may include Manet's Olympia, pornography and early photography, physical abjection in symbolism and German expressionism, the "oriental"body in 19th-century art, body art of the 1960s and 1970s, and obsessive treatments of the body by contemporary photographers.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.bard.edu

Phone Number:

(845) 758-6822

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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