Sex and Visual Art

In this course, students explore the history of, sexual diversity in human behaviour as, represented in visual art, examining how, sexuality, sexual pleasure and desire are, constructed through political philosophies of, social control. Representations of the ideal body, within the art historical 'canon' are, interrogated through a scholarly lens informed by, feminist and queer studies, while culturally, specific visual traditions of gender expression, are analyzed in terms of religious, racial and, class identity.