ARTH 190 American Indian Art History: Contemporary Issues
This course provides a thematic introduction to Native North American Indian Art, drawing from historic (pre- and post-contact) precedents. Class discussion and lectures are generated from the conceptual themes of contact, conflict, exchange, appropriation, and re-appropriation of American Indian imagery, materials, and ideas, rather than from the more descriptive categories such as Southwest painting or Plains beadwork. A concern with the social production of art, in specific episodic contexts, serves as a means of critically examining the circulation and appreciation of American Indian arts and material culture as fine art, commodity, political critique, social marker, religious icon, and physical landmark.
Core Requirements Met
- United States Diversity
- Fine Arts