HAD-643 Art of the USA: Visualizing Race, Religion, Class

3 Credits

• HAD-643-01

  Monday

  6:00 pm – 8:50 pm

  Main Building, 214

  • Caroline Gillaspie

This course will examine the intersection of artistic production and racial, social, and religious experience in the United States. A wide range of images and objects representing various artistic expressions as well as various nationalist symbols (e.g. "Hawkeye") and traditions (Puritanism) will be considered. Issues of expansionism (in the art of the West), the civil War and slavery (the Quadroon), ethnicity (Gilded Age hegemony), radicalism (20th-century Anarchist art) and racial stereotypes (Jim Crow, Mammy to Aunt Jemima) will figure prominently in our exploration of historical, theoretical and methodical interpretations of American art.