ARTH 510

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Seminar in African Art

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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 2023
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	47906	Seminar	HVH	1:00PM -3:50PM	M	316 Art and Design Building	von Hesse, H	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/17/23-05/03/23 Section Info: Topic: Commodities, Material Cultures & Social Transforms: Atlantic & Indian Ocean Africa. This course offers comparative perspectives on the visual, urban and commercial history of the Africa’s Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds from c. 1000 C.E to c. 1870 through an analysis of artefacts and trade goods. We will examine religious artefacts, trade commodities and architectural forms and their spiritual, commercial and political value and as sources of power and social interaction and cultural exchange. While this course emphasizes the antecedents of Atlantic and Indian Ocean commerce, we will examine how Africans negotiated debt economies and co-produced new forms of market-oriented value systems in the global economy prior to European colonization in the late nineteenth century. Restriction(s): Restricted to Graduate - Urbana-Champaign.