HAVC55 Unclothed: The Naked Body from Antiquity to the Present

The human body without clothing in European and European-American art and visual culture from ancient Greece to the present day. Among the themes to be addressed: gender, youth and age, sexuality and sexual preference, fecundity and potency, erotic art and pornography, primitivism and the naked body of the non-European. (Formerly course 31, The Nude in the Western Tradition.)