ARTH-289 Picturing Otherness
This seminar examines visual constructions of Otherness across a wide array of cultures. Otherness comprises categories of identity defined not only by race, religion, gender, class, and ethnicity, but also through the identification of immigrants, foreigners, and outsiders. Picturing Otherness, then, while universal in practice, is nonetheless heterogeneous in expression. The course seeks to discover what we can learn by considering myriad examples of Otherness in both art and visual culture as a coherent set of strategies used to forge concepts of the self and the group.
Speaking-Intensive (20)
Credits
1
Prerequisite
Permission of the instructor
Offered
Fall