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CONTEMPORARY CULTURE'S CONFLICTING VISUAL MESSAGES
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The seminar will investigate girls' daily relationships with their bodies and the ways the female body has become a template for the conflicting messages to girls within contemporary culture. Along with selected readings, we will use the exhibition of large-scale color photographs presently at the Snite Museum of Art titled "Girl Culture," by noted contemporary photographer Lauren Greenfield, to focus on girls' inner lives and emotional development in relation to the material world and popular culture. (Exhibition at the Snite Museum January 19 through March 9, 2003).
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Gina Costa focuses on the impact of material culture on the visual arts and has written and lectured on various issues of the current discourse in contemporary art. A former curator of education, she enjoys teaching within the museum setting, has created an award winning video for children on how to look at and understand art, and has taught art history at Notre Dame as well as at other universities and museums. Gina Costa is presently the marketing and public relations specialist at the Snite Museum of Art at Notre Dame.
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