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Professor Lisa Claypool
Office: Library 321, x7364
Office hours: Tuesdays 2:30-4:00 and by appointment
email claypool@reed.edu
Course Description
This course examines the relationship between the body and visual representation, addressing images of the body in a variety of media and the role played by the viewer's body in the reception of visual images. Case studies will be drawn from Chinese art. In particular, we will explore the ways in which figuration of the human body shifted dramatically at the end of the nineteenth century with the rise of new technologies and discourses. We will focus on new ideologies of disease, race, gender, and sexuality within the context of an emergent nationality in the Republican era (1911-1949), the revolutionary ethos of the politically centralized socialist state (1949-1976), and the economic boom of postsocialist China (1976-today). We will study images of the body in late imperial scrolls, woodblock prints , and calligraphy, as well as contemporary mixed-media installations, performance art, video, and web-based art . Readings will be drawn from art history, critical theory, feminist theory, psychoanalysis and phenomenology. Each student will use course readings as a theoretical framework for a research project of his or her choice. Projects may be drawn from any historical moment or geographical location in China or the Chinese diaspora in which the student has a strong interest.
Conference members (click on name to email):
Yoseff Ben-Yehuda
Kelsey Brennan
Marcia Custer
Kim Damio
Anna DeFilippi
Ella Gold
Jaz Hammoudi
Kelly Harris
Stephanie Hinshaw
Norah Hoover
Stefanie Kam
Sat Byell Lee
Blake Mason
Natalie Pellolio
Lara Pena
Lindsey Putnam
Erika Reed
Zoe Roller
Jamie Roux
Mariel Torres
Natalie Ung
Lauren White