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Spring 2012
May 01,2024 |
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| LIBS 642 - PRIMITIVE OTHER WESTERN ART |
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The course will take as its central problem the collection, display and interpretation of non-western visual culture from roughly the 18th century to the present. It will explore anthropological and art-historical theories of primitive culture, and the Western phenomenon of "primitivism" in modern art. It will also examine musicological practices in ethnographic and primitive art museums. A major aim of the course is to understand how a larger world history may be written into a museum display or an early 20th century piece of French or German modernist art, or--to put it another way--to understand how such cultural practices may yield ideological, and ultimately, political advantages. An on-going question for the course will be: How has Western thought distinguished its own cultural and artistic products from those made by peoples it has considered "other," "not us" ("primitive," "exotic," less "developed," "folk" or "ethnic")?
0.000 TO 3.000 Credit hours 0.000 TO 3.000 Lecture hours Levels: Graduate Liberal Studies Department Course Attributes: MLS COURSE FOR GRAD FEE ASSESS Restrictions: Must be enrolled in one of the following Majors: Liberal Studies Non-Degree-MALS |
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