Art History 374 - SEM: TOPCS 20TH CENT-BUILT ENV

Topics course.: This course investigates how gender and sexuality are simultaneously constitutive of, and constituted by, the built environment. Approaching the topic from the perspective of 19th- and 20th-century art and architectural history in the United States and Europe, the course addresses several interrelated questions: How have women shaped the built environment? What role has gender played in shaping dominant understandings of private and public spheres? What role does space play in defining socially acceptable and unacceptable sexual relationships? Finally, how is our understanding of these issues informed by depictions of gender, sexuality and the built environment in painting, photography and film?

Instructor Permission. Not open to first-years, sophomores