AAAS 380: African Art & Gender

AAAS 380: African Art & Gender

How does the rich relationship between art and gender provide an organizing metaphor for African artists across space and time? How do artists shape understandings of gender? In this course, we will examine gender in artistic practice alongside cultural binaries and consider how gender historically operated to define distinct roles for artists. We will study how formulations of gender and race intersected to impact artistic production and classification during the colonial and postcolonial periods. We will analyze materiality and the metaphor of childbirth, gender and Islamic textiles, and the concept of "craft." (Same as WGSS 380.)

Satisfies: H Humanities (H) , HL Literature & the Arts PC (HL)