The Body in Art
Wed 6 Nov 2024, 7:00 pm - Wed 4 Dec 2024, 9:00 pm
This five-week lecture course will look at how the body – be it that of the artist or that of an independent muse – has been represented in different mediums and at different times through the history of art. Following on from the summer school workshop, which looked at body image and the ideal (although it doesn’t matter if you didn’t attend this session!), we will deep-dive into the following five topics:
o The Male Nude vs The Male Gaze
o The Wandering Womb: hysteria and madness in turn-of-the-century art
o Abjection and Adoration
o Performing the Body
o Sex and the Erotic
You may participate in this course online.
Event Information
Price: £75
Course Weeks: 5
Room: Williams Room
Campaign: Autumn Term 2024
Customer Information: Notebook and Pen
Your Tutor
Name: Anna McNay
Bio: Anna McNay is a writer, editor and international curator, who contributes regularly to art and photography journals, including Studio International, Art Quarterly and The Flux Review. She writes catalogue essays, hosts panels and in conversation events, and has judged numerous art prizes, both nationally and internationally. McNay originally worked in academia as an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow in linguistics at the Humboldt University in Berlin and a Heath Harrison Teaching Fellow at the University of Oxford, where she lectured and gave tutorials and seminars in undergraduate and postgraduate linguistics and German translation. annamcnay.art @annamcnay #TheCriticWithTheDog
