Description
[Modern] Depictions of the body played a central role in French visual culture from François Boucher’s rouged and powdered coquettes to Paul Cézanne’s hulking androgynous bathers. In this course, we will explore how certain artists portrayed the body in ways that upheld, subverted, and/or problematized social categories such as gender, race, class, sexuality, and disability. We will also consider how some contemporary artists have reimagined these works in order to spark discussion about the significance of the body in our own time.