ARTH 310

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African Art and Society I

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Credit: 3 hours.

Introduces the arts of Black Africa, i.e., dance, drama, songs, and poetry, as expressed in a multi-media framework and a social-religious context; surveys the art styles of the Dogon, Senufo, Mende, and Ashanti peoples.

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ARTH 310 class schedule data for spring 2016
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	58698	Lecture	PM	9:00AM -10:20AM	MW	302 Architecture Building	Meier, S	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/19/16-05/04/16 Section Info: Topic: Sacred Arts of Africa. Why are some artworks endowed with mythic power, so that they become living form? What issues and narratives lie behind the surface of powerful religious icons? This course explores these and related questions from the vantage point of the African experience. We will learn to see beyond the surface of things, to understand how a wide range of African visual practices, including architecture, painting, sculpture, graphic communication systems -- and even contemporary multi-media art installations -- all work to manifest changing notions of the sacred on the African continent and in the African Diaspora.