IAHIS 4150 - Africa:Between Tradition and Modernity

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Lesley University

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3 credits This course is as much about the cultural politics surrounding African art as it is about the art itself. With particular emphasis on colonialism as A vital agent of change, students first learn how the early modernist view of African objects as works of art paradoxically fostered A new myth of primitivism. The lingering hold of this fantasy about the Other on Western imagination today is also examined.A variety of cultural representations from postcolonial Africa are explored in the context of "tradition" and "modernity.Recommended Prerequisites: The Arts of Africa, IAHIS 3450 and Art Since 1945

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.lesley.edu

Phone Number:

(617) 868-9600

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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