AFRC2850 - Modern Art in Africa and Europe

Status
A
Activity
LEC
Section number integer
601
Title (text only)
Modern Art in Africa and Europe
Term
2023A
Subject area
AFRC
Section number only
601
Section ID
AFRC2850601
Course number integer
2850
Meeting times
TR 5:15 PM-6:44 PM
Meeting location
WILL 220
Level
undergraduate
Instructors
Stephanie M Gibson
Description
The history of modern art is closely tied to and largely unfolds from the history of Western Imperialism. While the technologies made possible by colonial resource extraction produced new ways of looking, modern conceptions of the nation and how to represent it, developed in dialogue with racialized notions of the other. This course focuses on encounters between the cultures of Africa and Europe, from 1880 to 1960, and on the artistic practices that emerged on both continents as a result. Topics of special interest will include racial difference and the ramifications of colonialism, colonial masquerade, post-colonial monuments and memorials, the African influence on Dada and surrealism, Negritude and interwar Paris, colonial arts education, and the South African built environment under and after Apartheid.
Course number only
2850
Cross listings
ARTH2850601
Fulfills
Cross Cultural Analysis
Use local description
No