ART 334 - Art, Migration & Human Rights

This seminar examines topics related to human rights-including migration and displacement, labor and the body, gender and sexuality, racial and ethnic segregation-as reflected in artworks dating from the post-WWII period to the contemporary period. We will conduct close analyses of artworks in various mediums, including painting, sculpture, installation, performance, and film.

This course fulfills the following requirements:

• Ways of Knowing: Visual and Performing Arts
• Cultural Diversity
• Major requirement for art majors (emphasis on art history)
• Major requirements for East Asian Studies
• Minor requirements for East Asian Studies
• Minor Requirements for Chinese Studies (Literature, culture and cinema)
• Minor requirements for Art (emphasis on art history)