Repeatable for credit as topics change. Topic for Spring 2027, Section A1: Rethinking African Art. This course examines debates reshaping African art history today. Topics include restitution, fieldwork and its legacies, the boundaries of the field, African modernisms, and contemporary art. We consider how African art history has defined its objects, methods, geographies, and canons, looking at how scholars and artists are rethinking them.

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