Purchase Course Description:
This course is a study of African American painting, sculpture, architecture, prints, drawings, photography, film, and vernacular and popular art. The course begins with the Afro-Atlantic era and covers images made by Southern artists in the 19th and early 20th centuries, as well as artists associated with the “New Negro” movement, the Harlem Renaissance, the civil rights movement, postmodernism.
Dr. Lawton's Goals for the class:
In addition to this, we will analyze how intersecting circumstances frame the context for Black artistic production and consider connections to African traditions as well as contributions to the canon of mainstream American art. Special topics may include craftmanship, landscapes, the Harlem Renaissance, imagining black futurism, the Black Arts Movement, infusion of Pan-African artistry within the African Diaspora, the impact of Hip Hop/Rap on fashion, and cross-sections between “Post-Black” and "Woke Black" cultural representations
This course is a study of African American painting, sculpture, architecture, prints, drawings, photography, film, and vernacular and popular art. The course begins with the Afro-Atlantic era and covers images made by Southern artists in the 19th and early 20th centuries, as well as artists associated with the “New Negro” movement, the Harlem Renaissance, the civil rights movement, postmodernism.
Dr. Lawton's Goals for the class:
In addition to this, we will analyze how intersecting circumstances frame the context for Black artistic production and consider connections to African traditions as well as contributions to the canon of mainstream American art. Special topics may include craftmanship, landscapes, the Harlem Renaissance, imagining black futurism, the Black Arts Movement, infusion of Pan-African artistry within the African Diaspora, the impact of Hip Hop/Rap on fashion, and cross-sections between “Post-Black” and "Woke Black" cultural representations
- Teacher: Saadia Lawton