ARHI 135 PZ -Art of the United States

Institution: Pitzer

Description: Spanning the pre-colonial era to the present day, this class presents a historical and thematic overview of art, visual, and material cultures in what is now known as the United States. With a critical emphasis on the project of imagining, founding, building, and resisting a nation in North America, we focus on the art and cultural expressions of settler-colonial, immigrant, Indigenous, colonized, and enslaved individuals and communities. We will focus on key moments, ideas, debates, artworks, and objects as we endeavor to understand how the arts have shaped and expressed evolving and contested notions about national identity, race, ethnicity, gender, religious belief, sexual orientation, class, nature, and capitalism.

Prerequisite(s): See the current course schedule for registration restrictions.

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