Art and the Body: Identities and Orientations - SAHT2642
Faculty: Faculty of Art & Design
School: School of Art & Design
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Campus: Paddington
Career: Undergraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)
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Description
will examine historical precedents for this diverse work: debates, controversies, resistances and social/political movements. The question of how art has influenced and responded to these broader movements for social change will be explored, with a particular emphasis on gender studies, transnational feminisms, queer theory, critical race theory, critical disability studies and
postcolonialism. Ideas about how the body has been theorised, represented, ignored or fetishised will be considered in the context of contemporary art. Difference – here understood as a critical aspect of political identities and orientations – will be investigated
through art that addresses the body.