Thursday, June 20, 10am – 4pm
Egon Schiele. Standing Male Nude with Arm Raised, Back View (detail), 1910. Watercolor and charcoal on paper. Gift of Jo Carole and Ronald S. Lauder, The Museum of Modern Art / New York, NY / USA. Image © The Museum of Modern Art / Licensed by SCALA / Art Resource, NY
$170; members $153
(one-day workshop)
About the Class
The 19th century saw foundational shifts in the concepts of masculinity and male sexuality in European society. This workshop will chart how these changes surfaced in art of the period and into the 20th century. Drawing on queer, feminist, and postcolonial theory, we will explore the art academies of neoclassical Paris, the studios of Victorian London, and the streets of Weimar Berlin to discover what artistic depictions of the male body can tell us about sexuality in modern Europe.
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Egon Schiele. Standing Male Nude with Arm Raised, Back View, 1910
Instructor
Ty Vanover
A visiting professor at Dickinson College, Vanover specializes in 19th- and early 20th-century Central European art and visual culture. His research focuses on drawing and the graphic arts within the context of German sexual science between 1869 and 1933. His work has been supported by museums and universities across Germany, Austria, and the UK.
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