ARTH 510

Spring 2014 All Classes

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Seminar in African Art

Credit: 4 hours.

This seminar includes a variety of topics, such as African Diaspora Theory, Contemporary African Art, Performance Art in Africa, Tourist art in Africa. Each graduate seminar will have a significant reading list with weekly responses, as well as a research paper and presentation.

Same as AFST 509. May be repeated to a maximum of 20 hours. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor.

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ARTH 510 class schedule data for spring 2014
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	47906	Conference	PM	3:00PM -5:50PM	W	319 Art and Design Building	Meier, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/14-05/07/14 Section Info: Topic: Primitivism and its Discontents. This seminar examines the construction of primitivism as an artistic practice and its art-historical account. We will focus especially on the encounter between Africa and Europe in the making of the global "primitive." Key questions to be considered: What "work" does the category of the primitive do, since it aims at subversion even as it consolidates entire regions of the world as "other"? What is the relationship between the politics of colonialism and artistic practice? How do artists from societies defined as "other" negotiate becoming the "primitive"? Can the category of the "primitive" be productively re-appropriated by artists today?