Art History 106 - Arts of Africa and Its Diasporas

This course introduces students to art and architecture created by peoples of African descent around the world. Through case studies spanning centuries and continents, students encounter a dazzling array of artforms that reflect changing contexts and cultural entanglements, fuse new and old belief systems, and flourish while transcending borders. Selected topics vary, but themes may include gender; performance; resistance to settler colonialism and enslavement; modernity and modernism; and museums, decolonization, and repatriation.