Art History 391AA - Seminar in African Art

This course explores the role of Black cultural aesthetics in our contemporary age of globalization. We will consider the influence of Black American visual culture on sources ranging from Indigenous rap to Korean pop music, as well as debates around the repatriation of African art from the West. Our goal is to investigate how Black art and culture determine what we think of as the "global" in the 21st century.

Black Aesthetics and Globalization - This course explores the role of Black cultural aesthetics in our contemporary age of globalization. We will consider the influence of Black American visual culture on sources ranging from Indigenous rap to Korean pop music, as well as debates around the repatriation of African art from the West. Our goal is to investigate how Black art and culture determine what we think of as the ?global? in the 21st century.