ART2217 - 01 - American Art: An Anti-Racist Progressive History

(VCI) Visual & Creative Inquiry (AI-A) Aesthetic Inquiry Art (DM) Diversity and Multiculturalism This course is an examination of American art from its indigenous roots to the present. The course is grounded in two strategies: serious critique of the problematic ways in which issues of class, race, and gender are embedded in works of art; and challenges to these problematic representations by artists from both the past and the present. Overall, the course will concentrate on the relationship between American art and the political, economic, and social climate of the United States at the time in which it was produced.