ARTH 498 - Special Topics In the History of Art and Architecture - Queering Modernism

• M&W - 15:00-17:30
• EV-3.760
• INSTRUCTOR: DR. JOHN POTVIN

The relationship between sexuality and modernism remains largely undermined, undervalued and untheorized. The question of sexuality invariably becomes a concern for the historiography of modernism. Indebted to and building on the ground-breaking scholarship on Left Bank lesbians and female same-sex cultural expression, this course will important scholarship and various case studies in the overlapping fields of masculinity studies, feminist theory and queer theory to expose the ways dissident identities at once maintained marginal positions while sustaining success and recognition in the mainstream. Through examples taken from Europe and North American in the allied fields of art and design, the course will explore the ways modernism and sexuality collide and/or overlap in creative and meaningful ways. In short, together we will attempt to queer Modernism.