22-2180 Portraiture + Self + Society

From venerated oil paintings to family snapshots to Facebook profiles, this course investigates the practice, performance and social function of the portrait. Students query the role that portraits play in the formation of individual and collective identities from the late 19th to 21st centuries. Considering the histories of representation, we critically examine the ways in which the social constructs of race, gender, class, and orientation determine how we look at others and ourselves.

3 Credits
PL
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1111 Writing and Rhetoric I - Enhanced or 52-1112 Writing and Rhetoric - Enhanced II or 52-1121 Writing and Rhetoric I for Non-Native Speakers of English or 52-1151 Writing and Rhetoric I