MLS 592 - Rococo to Revolution: Gender, Race, and Power in 18th-Century French Art

Credit(s): 4
This course examines the dramatic changes that took place in French 18th‐century visual culture, focusing on issues of gender, race, and power. Visual culture includes not only art and architecture, but fashion, interior decoration, and landscape gardening. We will explore representations of kingship and queenship, women’s empowerment within the restrictions of 18th-century gender roles, and images of slavery in an age of liberty, among other areas.