HNRS 159Feminism, Art, and Metaphors of Trauma

Exploration into visual metaphors of remembrance. Exploration, across several centuries, of artworks of feminist artists who have been exposed to—or ally with—relentless traumas, sexual violence, casualties of war, racial and social injustice, and trafficking of women and girls. Focus on visual manifestations of anguish, persistence, and reckoning that populate and coalesce in these artworks. Exploration of topics through group and individual studio art projects designed to give tangible insights into emergence of artworks manifested in wake of tragedy.

P/NP or letter grading.