Topics in African American Art

3 units

A survey of the development of African-American artists from the earliest phase of mass emancipations after the Revolutionary War to the Harlem Renaissance with a brief look at slave crafts. Lectures focus on the integration of African Americans into the mainstream western art market and their eventual exile from the social restraints of post-Reconstruction United States. The course examines the role of significant African-American content in seemingly mainstream works of art.