African Modernism and the African American Diaspora
ARHA 367
Spring 2024
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| Course Cluster and Certificates: African Studies, African Studies Minor |
This seminar will examine the relationship between African art and the Black diaspora, especially in the United States. We will look at the crosscurrents of artistic ideas and the impact of artists' ongoing travels between Africa and the United States during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The seminar will investigate how these exchanges gave birth to a robust intellectual movement and artistic pan-Africanism in the United States and beyond. By juxtaposing the works of a range of artists such as Jacob Lawrence, Aaron Douglas, Ben Enwonwu, Skunder Boghossian, and others, the course will propose an alternative reading of the transnational, transatlantic aesthetic sensibilities that informed these artists' works during the post-WWII period and their wider impact on African modernism. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ART |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Major Requirement for: (AFST-MN)(ARHA-MN)(ARHA)(ARST) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 75% - 89% |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
1. Lathrop, Perrin, ed. African Modernism in America. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022. ISBN: 9781885444110
2. Gant, Kimberli, and Ndubuisi Ezeluomba, eds. Black Orpheus: Jacob Lawrence and the Mbari Club. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2022. ISBN: 9780300263176
3. Selection of articles and book chapters on e-reserves and Moodle.
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Examinations and Assignments:
1. Discussion and in-class presentation of the readings; short mid-term essay; oral research presentation; 15¿20-page research paper.
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Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
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| Instructor(s): Nwafor,Okechukwu Charles Times: ..T.R.. 01:20PM-02:40PM; Location: BOGH113; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 16 | | SR major: 5 | JR major: 5 | | |
| Seats Available: 1 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 2 | JR non-major: 2 | SO: 2 | FR: X |
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