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CONTEMPORARY QUEER ART AND VISUAL CULTURE

GEN&WS 412
Course Description

Queer art and visual culture are defined not only through their subject matter but also by the methods through which they appropriate and subvert conventional visual practices. Such tactics may include a work's means of production, its formal properties, and the conditions of its reception. The political imperatives of a queer or queered position, linked to the intersections of race, class, sex and gender will shape thematic investigations of practices related to activism, documentation, abstraction, mining the archive, craft, camp, and drag, among others. Case studies will be drawn from film, performance, comics, video games, and fine art. Projects will engage text- and studio-based research in an interdisciplinary push to integrate theory and practice. No prior art or design experience required.

Prerequisties

Sophomore standing

Satisfies

This course does not satisfy any prerequisites.

Credits

3

Offered

Not Applicable

Grade Point Average
3.9

5.06% from Historical

Completion Rate
100%

5.08% from Historical

A Rate
89.74%

9.1% from Historical

Class Size
39

25.81% from Historical

Instructors (2025 Fall)

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