FYS381

This course analyzes the arts associated with the body. The cross-cultural, interdisciplinary seminar addresses the ways that the body has been adorned and manipulated as an artistic medium. Using the body as subject and lens for theoretical discussions, we will examine the arts of body painting, scarification, surgical manipulation, tattooing, piercing and branding, and hair adornment in cross-cultural contexts. Theories of gender, race and subjectivities of the body are central to the course.