Body and Sexuality in the Art of the Ancient World
History of Art 394 101, Spring Half-Term, 3 credits

*No readings

*Readings:

• Roy Porter, "History of the Body" in Peter Burke, New Perspectives on Historical Writing , pp. 206-232
  --D 13 N5411 1991 (REQUIRED)
• Fragments for a History of the Human Body I-III . Look at these volumes to get an idea of scholarship on the human body
  --BL 604.B64.F731 vols. 1-3 (REFERENCE)
• Michel Foucault, The History of Sexuality Volume I: An Introduction : Part One: "We 'Other Victorians'", pp. 3-13, Part Four "The Deployment of Sexuality", introduction and "Objective" sections, pp. 75-91 only.
  --HQ 12.F6813 volume 1 (REFERENCE)

*Readings

• The British Museum Book of Ancient Egypt , Chapters 1-2, 6 (pp. 11-57, 148-163)
  --DT61.B8611 1992 (REQUIRED)
• Barry Kemp, Ancient Egypt: Anatomy of a Civilization
  --DT61.K441 1989 (REFERENCE)
• Nicolas-Christophe Grimal, A History of Ancient Egypt
  --DT83.G513 1992 (REFERENCE)

*Readings

• Janet Richards and Terry Wilfong, Preserving Eternity ; Read as general introduction to Kelsey Museum Egyptian collection, also note in particular articles by Paul Legutko, Jennifer Trimble, Harry Jho, Bryan Burns, Melanie Grunow, all articles based on past student papers
  --YY5.R2076; also available for purchase at Kelsey Museum of Archaeology (434 S. State) (REQUIRED)

*Readings

• Gay Robins, Proportion and Style in Ancient Egyptian Art , Chapters 1, 3-7
  --N 5350.R651 1994 (REQUIRED)
• William Stevenson Smith, Art and Architecture of Ancient Egypt
  --N 5350.S65 1981 (REFERENCE)

*Readings

• Erik Hornung, Idea into Image , Chapters 1 and 9 (pp. 17-38, 167-85)
  --B141.H6713 1992 (REQUIRED)
• The British Museum Book of Ancient Egypt , Chapters 3-4 (pp. 58-117)
  --DT61.B8611 1992 (REQUIRED)

*Readings

• Lise Manniche, Sexual Life in Ancient Egypt , the whole thing, but especially note pp. 7-51, 106-117
  --HQ 18.E3.M3611 1987 (REQUIRED)
• J. Omlin, Der Papyrus 55001 und seine satirisch-erotisch Zeichnungen....
  --In Graduate Library Special Collections ND 3283.O55 (REFERENCE)

*Readings

• John Boardman, Oxford History of Classical Art , Chapters 3-6
  --N5610.O841 1993 (REQUIRED)

*Readings

• Maurice Olender, "Aspects of Baubo" In Before Sexuality , pp. 83-114
  --HQ 13.B441 1990 (REQUIRED)
• Ann Ellis Hanson, "The Medical Writer's Woman" In Before Sexuality , pp. 309-338
  --HQ 13.B441 1990 (REQUIRED)
• Holt N. Parker, "Love's Body Anatomized" In Pornography and Representation , pp. 90-111
  --HQ 472.G8.P671 1992 (REQUIRED)

*Readings

• "Introduction" in Before Sexuality , pp. 3-20
  --HQ 13.B441 1990 (REQUIRED)
• Catherine Johns, Sex or Symbol , Introduction, Chapters 1-3 (pp. 9-76)
  --N 8217.E6.J65, also available for purchase (REQUIRED)

*Readings

• Catherine Johns, Sex or Symbol , chapters 4-7 (pp. 77-153)
  --N 8217.E6.J65, also available for purchase (REQUIRED)
• Kenneth Dover, Greek Homosexuality , section I (pp. 1-18)
  --HQ 76.3.G8.D75 (REQUIRED)
• David Halperin, One Hundred Years of Homosexuality , chapter 1 (pp. 15-40)
  --HQ 76.2.G8.H351 1990 (REQUIRED)

*Readings

• John Winkler, Constraints of Desire , chapters 1 and 3 (pp. 17-44, 71-100)
  --DF 93.W561 1990

*Readings

• Peter Brown, "Bodies and Minds: Sexuality and Renunciation in Early Christianity" in Before Sexuality , pp. 479-94
  --HQ 13.B441 1990 (REQUIRED)
• Peter Brown, The Body and Society
  --BT 708.B771 1988 (REFERENCE)

• FINAL EXAM

Detailed guide to course requirements:

PAPER

• --Subject of paper to be approved by Wednesday 31 May
• --Paper due Monday 19 June at the end of class
• --Assignment:

Write a 5-10 page paper in which you can

• 1.) discuss and interpret an object or group of objects in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
• 2.) discuss and interpret an object or group of objects illustrated in either of the two textbooks or in the readings
• 3.) compare objects illustrated in both textbooks; that is look at the differences between Egyptian and Graeco-Roman objects.

When writing your paper, you should provide a basic description of the object(s) you're writing about. Then discuss the object(s) in terms of this course--how it relates to conceptions of the human body and/or sexuality in its cultural context.

You do not have to address both body and sexuality in your paper; in some cases both won't be relevant or you will just want to concentrate on one aspect.

For those of you working on objects in the Kelsey Museum (either on display or in storage), Robin Meador-Woodruff (the Kelsey Museum registrar) is the person to contact for information and/or access to objects. She is accessible via phone (747-0442) or email (rmw@umich.edu). Anyone wishing to work on Kelsey Museum objects should arrange to do so well in advance.

For those students who are interested and already have the requisite technical knowledge, I am willing to accept papers in electonic format, especially in the form of an interactive document accessible via World Wide Web. If you are interested in this option, it is essential that you get this approved ahead of time. I will need a printed outline of your online document, as well as an operational URL for your online paper by the due date. Thus, the paper must be finished and online by 12:30 pm, 19 June.
FINAL EXAM:

• The final will be in two parts: slide identifications and essays.
• On Wednesday 14 June, I will distribute a study guide for the exam. This will include a list of slides from which the exam slides will be chosen and a list of questions from which the exam questions will be chosen.