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Subject: Art History (Grad) (ARHS)
CRN: 21689
Lecture
St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 414
Requirements Met:
Art History Museum Studies
Not long after Europeans stumbled across the Americas, a whole new genre of visual culture was born: representations of new lands and new peoples. Early European imagery was dominated by graphic works catering to audience fascination with the new, the bizarre, and things of prurient interest. The story of these images and their makers is fraught with issues of exoticism and justifying colonial subjugation of indigenous peoples. Despite this, many of these Othering images remain foundational to commonplace depiction of indigenous Americans to this day. There is also a large body of visual works wherein indigenous Americans tried to incorporate Europeans and others into their own extant traditions and created representations of themselves and their cultures for the new European audience, using both traditional means and the new Western visual idiom. This seminar will critically reassess this body of work as well as looking into the history of those who sought out and collected such imagery through time.
3 Credits