Spring 2024 Art History GR8503 section 001

AFRICAN ART& DECOLONIZING

Call Number 12879
Day & Time
Location
T 2:10pm-4:00pm
934 Schermerhorn Hall [SCH]
Points 4
Grading Mode Standard
Approvals Required None
Instructor Zoe S Strother
Type SEMINAR
Method of Instruction In-Person
Course Description Scholar activists have spearheaded efforts to “decolonize” the discipline of art history since the 1970s, pushed by the Civil Rights Movement. Africanists were among the first to embrace the concept of “art practice” through study of performance, body art, and assemblage; to introduce video and other experimental display strategies into art museums and classrooms; to make the “ethnographic turn.” And yet, for reasons of race, methodology, and medium, the experimental nature of African art history has not been foregrounded in histories of the discipline. The first half of the seminar will analyze the reception of critical and often controversial interventions into art history by Africanists through texts and exhibitions. It will question the power relations that make possible and curtail the generation of alternative art histories. The second half of the course will focus on the latest literature – how does the study of African art continue to push boundaries?
Web Site Vergil
Department Art History and Archaeology
Enrollment 8 students (12 max) as of 4:07PM Friday, December 13, 2024
Subject Art History
Number GR8503
Section 001
Division Graduate School of Arts and Sciences
Note Apply by 5pm, Jan. 4th: https://forms.gle/s23zrcYJuWQaiu5L8
Section key 20241AHIS8503G001