<p>Seminar, three hours. What is Black about Black art and Black aesthetics? Study of how the intellectual histories of Black art and aesthetics, and their permutations across mediums and geographies, have developed and changed since the turn of the 20th century. By analyzing texts, art objects, and exhibitions that reflect the global scope of Black expressive culture in the past and present, examination of how and when Black art and Black aesthetics emerged as political ideals and modes of thought, as practices of making and writing, and as a methodological basis for interdisciplinary research over time. Interrogation of the potential that visual analysis holds for constructing nuanced understandings of Blackness and vision. Consideration of how Black art and Black aesthetics are understood within art history and Black study disciplines, how individual and collective understandings of these phrases changed over time and place, the future of Black art, and other questions. S/U or letter grading.</p>

Art History

College of Letters and Science

ART HIS 236C - Idea of Black Art

Idea of Black Art

Think and act like a Black Studies scholar of art, history, and culture

Outline and synthesize the relationship between art, politics, Blackness, the ethics of representation, and their evolving relevance to everyday life

Critically consider your own identity as a consumer and maker of art and culture in an increasingly digital, uncertain, image-saturated world

Explain and apply visual analysis and its role in interdisciplinary study 

General Catalog

Idea of Black Art

ART HIS 236C

4 units