How does racial difference teach us to see, or not to see? This seminar examines the intersection of Modernist aesthetics and racial formation, with a focus on the United States and Europe in the 20th century. From monochrome painting and mid-century furniture to Josephine Baker and Isamu Noguchi, we will analyze how race materializes through form and style. Topics and themes will include: race and abstraction; primitivism in 20th century art; formalism and art historiography; exhibition history. By the end of this course, students will gain an interdisciplinary foundation in conducting aesthetic analysis from a critical race viewpoint.
Clement Greenberg, “Towards a Newer Laocoon [1940],” in Clement Greenberg: The Collected Essays and Criticism (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1986); Richard Dyer, White: Essays on Race and Culture (London: Routledge, 1997); Frantz Fanon, “The Fact of Blackness [1952],” in Black Skin, White Masks, trans. Charles L. Markmann (New York: Grove Press, 1967); Stuart Hall and Sarat Maharaj, "Modernity and Difference: A Conversation," in Modernity and Difference, ed. Gilane Tawadros and Sarah Campbell (London: Institute of International Visual Arts, 2001).
Hausarbeit
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