ART 176 - Fashion and Art

3 Credits

Fashion and Art is designed to critically examine the intersections between fashion and the fine arts. This course is designed to introduce students to the critique, theory and practice of fashion as a fine art; and fabric as a medium for performance, sculpture, painting, photography and film throughout various points in modern history. This course also explores fashion as social barometer, fashion as performance and spectacle, and fashion as a method for body modification. Topics like the body as canvas; fashion as art object; fashion and identity, status, power, and display; ethnicity and appropriation; scientific and biological reference; sex and gender; fashion and disability, are discussed. This course is for any student with an interest in the topics of fashion or art. No prior art or art history experience is necessary.

Note: This course requires advanced reading and intermediate writing.

Diversity / Multicultural Studies Course

Articulation: 1.1

Prerequisite: None
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