ARHS 6060P - Gender, Race, and Representations of the Body

Institution:

Tulane University of Louisiana

Subject:

Art History

Description:

Professor Plante This course will examine the ways in which artists – painters, sculptors, filmmakers, writers etc – have contructed and organized representations or the body.Â" " We will examine the human body as a contested field, a site across which history, memory, and politics are played.Â" " We will be using a wide variety of methodologies as appropriate to certain artistic expressions such as phenomenological experiences of art and the body,; the organizing principles of “visuality”, as interpreted throigh the psychoanalyitc writings of Freud and Lacan; and both the political and subjective uses of the body as it is deployed in culture through methodologies. Note: Fulfills the capstone requirement.

Credits:

3.00

Credit Hours:

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Additional Information:

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Institution Website:

www.tulane.edu

Phone Number:

(504) 865-5000

Regional Accreditation:

Southern Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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