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2012-2013 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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ART 295-01 - Special Topic: Gender, Race and Fashion in Western Portraiture4 credits (Fall)
This course explores race, gender, and fashionable dress as co-constitutive forces in portraiture from 1500 to 1950. We will investigate self-portraiture, group portraiture, historiated portraiture, and allegorical personification. If idealized white, female beauty is one of portraiture’s tropes, how do notions of sexual difference, physiognomy, and skin-color, among other variables, inflect representation? Subjects range from Tudor England, Rubens, Van Dyck, Rembrandt, and Velazquez to Qing, China, Viceregal Mexico, nineteenth-century Paris, and post-war New York.
Prerequisite: ART 103 .
Instructor: Lyon
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