HAVC 39 African-American Art

Interdisciplinary investigation of the construction of race in the United States, tracing the impact of European art on American artistic production, exploring its influence on African-American art and culture, including the Harlem Renaissance, black internationalism, and the vibrant Negritude movement. Explores how a definable black aesthetic crystallized during the late 1950s-70s African anti-colonial, Civil Rights and Black Power eras, and continued to flourish through the 1990s—all of which gave rise to new artistic forms such as black queer, feminist, and conceptual art. Also studies the phenomenon of post-black art, popular visual culture, as well as discourses on African modernity and globalization.