ARTH 221 - Indigenous North American Art

FDR: Fine Arts (HA)
Credits: 3

The course is a survey of Indigenous art across North American, from pre-contact to the contemporary period. The class will study the art of various Native people, exploring regional styles, with an emphasis on aesthetics, cultural function, and factors of change, as well as ceremonial and commercial art. Topics will include sovereignty, the impacts of historical and present-day colonialism, appropriation, and other issues of current concern.