Lecture (LEC)

• COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inq
• COLL (CASE) Diversity in U.S.

• Above class open to undergraduates only
• Topic: Visual Arts of the Harlem Renaissance
• Above class meets with AAAD-A331
• COLL (CASE) A&H Breadth of Inquiry credit
• COLL (CASE) Diversity in U.S. credit

Topic: Vis arts of the harlem ren

This course considers visual artistic production during the Harlem or "New Negro" Renaissance, a period in which African-American artists sough radical reconceptualizations of self and community through visual and literary expression. The class will investigate a variety of topics related to the themes and modes of Renaissance artistic production, including the ideologies and techniques of racial representation in literature and the visual arts, issues of sexuality and gender, portrayals of biraciality and perceptions of skin color, art criticism and the delimiting of "Negro art" (within and outside of African-American journals), and systems of patronage. We will conclude by considering the continuation of "New Negro" ideologies and aesthetics through World War II.