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HART-105-01.21/FA
ASSIGNMENTS
Week 1, September 3: Welcome to the Course and Introduction to Art History
Week 2, September 8 and 10: Definitions of Diaspora // "Old World" Foundations
Week 3, September 15 and 17: Transatlantic Slavery: Crossing and Continuity // Objects of Protection and Survival
Week 4, September 22 and 24: Haitian Art and Representation: Vodou, Revolution, and the Visual Culture of Toussaint L’Ouverture (1791-1804)
Week 5, September 29 and October 1: Color, Casta Paintings, and Control in the Spanish and Portuguese Colonies
Week 6, October 6 and 8: Craft in U.S. Plantation Worlds (Basket-Weaving, Pottery, and Architecture in South Carolina)
Week 7, October 13 and 15: Ritual Aesthetics: Santería Arts (Cuba), Candomblé Arts (Brazil), and Festival Arts: Jonkonnu (Jamaica), Màs (Trinidad), and Carnival
Week 8, October 20 and 22: 'Venus Noire': Painters and their Muses in Europe and North America
Week 9, October 27 and 29: The “Harlem” Renaissance and Négritude/Surrealism in the Americas
Week 10, November 3 and 5: Pan-African Connections: Afro-Asia, Caribbean Artists Movement, and the “Windrush Generation”
Week 11, November 10 and 12: Art and Civil Rights/Black Power in the Age of African Independence
Week 12, November 17 and 19: Materials and Sensations of Diaspora (Performance Art, Installation, Ritual)
Week 13, November 24 and 26 - THANKSGIVING BREAK
Week 14, December 1 and 3: Black British Art in the 1980s
Week 15, December 8 and 10: Black Lives Matter and Abstraction in the African Diaspora
Week 16, December 15: Wrap Up
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Fall 2021
HART-105-01.21/FA
Summary
Fall 2021 Art of the African Diaspora (HART-105-01)
Art of the African Diaspora
Teacher:
Abbe Schriber
Teacher:
Abbe Schriber