ARTH 28.10 Fashion in Art: Dress, Identity and Power
This course will examine clothing and fashion in art over the centuries to explore overt and hidden messages regarding power, gender, and status contained within costume over time and still today. We will study the external, clothed body as represented in high and popular art in relation to a performance of the self and the unconscious categorizations of gendered, sexed, and classed positions. We will investigate how clothing and ornament can reinforce or challenge gender norms, ideologies of power, and insider/outsider status. The course will focus on a broad time frame and explore different media and modes of image distribution.
Instructor
O'Rourke