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HART216 Art of the African Atlantic World 3cr


Caribbean scholar Édouard Glissant has described
the violence of the Atlantic slave trade and
European colonialization as “the point of
entanglement” between disparate peoples on
opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean. This course
seeks to pull a thread from this tangled web of
history, considering the artistic production of
the “African Diaspora,” African-descended peoples
across the Atlantic World. Over the course of the
semester, we will consider transatlantic circuits
of artistic development and exchange, looking to
diverse cross-section of African-Diasporic
“material culture.” Fine arts, crafts, fashion,
performance, and ritual will provide fertile
points of inquiry to consider themes such as
colonial encounter, creolization, representation,
slavery, revolution, gender, and identity. In
addition, questions of representation, inclusion,
and erasure within the canon of Western Art will
be addressed. Because this course is
cross-temporal and transnational in scope, our
course content will be fluid and mosaic, much as
the Atlantic World constitutes an aqueous
continent encompassing a multitude of
interconnected peoples, geographies, and
narratives.

Prerequisites: HART-100

LEC

Spring