ART 176 - The Body as Canvas

3 Credits
Lecture: 3

The Body as Canvas is designed to critically examine the intersections between fashion, body manipulation, and body related action with the fine arts. This course is designed to introduce students to the critique, theory and practice of fashion and body manipulation as a fine art and as a medium for performance, sculpture, painting, photography, and film throughout various points in modern history. This course also explores the body as social barometer as a canvas for performance and spectacle, as a method for modification, and as a social and political arena. Topics like fashion as art object; fashion and identity, status, power, and display; ethnicity and appropriation; scientific and biological reference; sex and gender; fashion and disability, and body modification 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 (1.1-Articulated).

Note: This course requires advanced reading and intermediate writing.

Articulation: 1.1

Diversity / Multicultural Studies Course

Prerequisite: None
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