Introduction to Pre-20th Century Black Diaspora Art (CD or LA)

Subject associations
AAS 244 / ART 262 / LAS 244
Term
Fall 2023
Instructors
Anna Arabindan Kesson
Registrar description

This course focuses on the networks, the imaginaries and the lives inhabited by Black artists, makers, and subjects from the 18th through 19th centuries. It revolves around the Caribbean (particularly the Anglophone Caribbean), North America and Europe. We will reflect on how pre-twentieth century Black artists are written into history or written out of it. We will explore the aesthetic innovation of these artists and the visionary worlds they created, and examine their travels, their writings, along with the social worlds and communities they formed. The course incorporates lectures and readings and, if possible, museum visits.

AAS Subfield
AACL
GRE