/ BLST 1399 / HSAR 3209b, Black Modernisms Nana Adusei-Poku

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Artists and Thinkers thus created their articulations and complications of Modernity. Because the discourse on ways Western Modernism was influenced by African Art is well-established; the main focus of this lecture course lies on the ways Black Artists and Thinkers participated in cultural, formal, and creative innovations. This demands a transdisciplinary approach that is informed by theoretical tools provided by Black Studies and Queer of Color Feminisms as well as a constant reading of texts and artworks against their grain. Particularly in example when we look at the close entanglement of early 20th-century Black Aesthetics and the History of Primitivism. We look with a trans-chronological lens at paintings, sculptures, photography as well as film/installation to explore the aesthetics and queries that Black Modernisms pose to us today and retroactively to their histories. HU 0 Course cr MW 9:25am-10:15am