Art History 80.09F :2A - The Colonial Lens:Photography in Nineteenth-Century Africa and Asia.Hockley.81.08F:2A.Skin:The Surface of Art.Rosenthal

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Dartmouth College

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This seminar explores the relationship between skin and visual representation in a broad range of media from the Renaissance to the present. Topics include depictions of Christ's incarnation ("becoming flesh") as the "birth" of art, representation of flesh in Baroque and Romantic painting, complexion in relation to concepts of gender and race, debates on the opacity and transparency of skin, and skin as literal or metaphorical boundary between self and oth

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3.00

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www.dartmouth.edu

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(603) 646-1110

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New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Quarter

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