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Learning from Frida Kahlo: Exploring Issues of Identity in Modern and Contemporary Art

X445.1 (1 semester unit in Art History)

Frida Kahlo captured the public’s attention and imagination in ways few other artists can claim. She has become a celebrity and an icon and an important artistic touchstone for generations of artists. Her work is often positioned at the center of conversations about identity that have become crucial tenets of modern and contemporary art practice. These concepts vacillate between the particulars of individual identity to broader notions of identity as universal (i.e. gender, nationality, artistic circles). Taking the work of Frida Kahlo as its starting point, this course explores how other artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries tackle themes of identity. We position Kahlo within a broader context of art history, using this expanded field as a means of defining the ways in which art reflects and constructs our understanding of ourselves and the world we live in. Students will visit the exhibition Frida Kahlo as well as other key exhibitions and SFMOMA’s collection.

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Thurs. July 17, San Francisco