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AHVS384 - Northwest Coast Indigenous Arts and Colonization

Description

Investigation of NWC indigenous artists' creative responses to colonization, 1700 to present. Explores vital roles of art in opposing cultural oppression and empowering cultural survival. Content may include artists' responses to colonizers, development of new art forms due to trade and tourist markets, persecution of potlatches and artistic expression, case studies of artists' resistance to oppression; contemporary artists; and arts in relation to current threats to lands and cultures.

Units

1.5

Hours: lecture-lab-tutorial

3-0-0

Formerly

HA 384

Note(s)

  • Credit will be granted for only one of AHVS 384, HA 384.

Course offered by

Department of Art History and Visual Studies

Course schedules

Summer timetable available: February 15. Fall and Spring timetables available: May 15.

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