AVC295
The Decorated Body
Subject code
AVC
Course Number
295
Department(s)
Instructor(s)
A. Bessire
Course Long Title
The Decorated Body
Cross Listed Courses
Description
This course analyzes the arts associated with the body, using the body as subject and as lens for theoretical discussions in relation to non-Western and Western cultures. Cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary, with particular attention to the body as gendered and raced, the course addresses the ways that the body has been adorned and manipulated as an artistic medium through practices including painting, scarification, surgical manipulation, tattooing, piercing, branding, and hair adornment.
Modes of Inquiry
Analysis and Critique [AC], Historical and Social Inquiry [HS]
Writing Credit
No writing credit
Departmental Course Attributes - Major/Minor Requirements
(AVC: Non-Western Canon), (AVC: Race, Sexuality, Gender)
INDS Program Relationship
IDGS - GSS Program
GEC This Course Belongs To
-
Class Restriction
Exclude First Years