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John Berger, Ways of Seeing (Penguin 1972).Students will become familiar with the influential scholarship of John Berger, Laura Mulvey, and bell hooks to gain skills for analyzing the gender and racialized constructions of sexuality. The first part of the lecture will review the tradition of female nude in western art history, and introduce concepts of objectification and the gaze. The examples outlined here are selective and many other relevant artists/artworks can be chosen to discuss the themes in this lecture, based on your own syllabus. Especially since the feminist art movement, artists-namely women and people of color-have devised new ways to use art for gender, sex, and race for their own self-determination.We can study art to learn about different aspects of sex in society-ideas about fertility, morality, beauty standards, gender ideals, and national identity.Any analysis of nudity in art should entail a consideration of the dynamics of “looking” and questions such as: Who is the intended audience? How does the nude subject engage the presumed viewer? What is the relationship between the artist and model, and the artist and patron? The development of a tradition of female nudity in art is related to the concept of objectification.ģ.Although it is often a reference to this historical period, the representation of the nude body in art should not be considered autonomous from the social and sexual relations of its contemporaneous society in any period. The history of the nude in Western art has typically been a recurring dialogue with classical art-most notably in the Renaissance and the Neoclassical periods.Additionally, you can spend time looking at the ways in which modern and contemporary artists have responded to the trope of female nudity in order to break with past conventions, and the ways in which feminist and queer artists and artists of color have developed new approaches to this tradition from a position of marginality. Tracing this convention through the history of art will enable you to cover issues of sexuality, gender, and power with your class. The topic of sexuality in art history can be approached in a variety of ways but perhaps the most valuable one (in terms of a foundational topic for a survey art history lecture) is the convention of female nudity in art.
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