The Art Of The African Diaspora
- Course Code:
- 15PARC018
- Status:
- Course Not Running This year
- Unit value:
- 1 unit
This course follows the development of the art of people of African descent outside the African continent from colonial times to the present, with particular focus on Brazil, the Caribbean, the United States and Britain. From the 17th to the 19th century, Black and Mulatto artists played an increasingly important role in the art of the Americas, gradually creating artistic worlds of their own within the white-dominated societies.
The 20th century has seen the establishment of African identities in the Americas and in Europe. In the context of these general issues, specific topics to be discussed in the course may include: colonial Brazil, the representation of African religions in Brazilian and Haitian painting, art and black politics in the United States, recent developments in Britain, and the work of several individual artists on both sides of the Atlantic.
Required reading
- Ades, D., 1989, Art in Latin America.
- Areen, R., 1989, The Other Story, London.
- Consentino, D. (ed.), 1996, Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou, Los Angeles.
- Lippard, L., 1990, Mixed Blessings, New York.
- Mintz, S.W. and Price, R., 1992, The Birth of African-American Culture.
- Perry, R., 1993, Free Among Ourselves.
- Price, S., and Prince, R., 1980, Afro-American Arts of the Suriname Rain Forest, Los Angeles.
- Rozelle, R.V., Wardlaw, A. and McKenna, M.A. (eds.), 1989, Black Art, Ancestral Legacy: the African Impulse in African-American Art, Dallas.
- Shaw, D.A., 1975, Jamaican Art.
- Stebich, U., 1978, Haitian Art.
- Thompson, R.F., 1993, Face of the Gods, New York.
- Thornton, J., 1992, African and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1680.
- Walmsley, A., 1992, The Caribbean Artists Movement, 1966-1972.
