- Ways of Seeing: Visual Cultures of the Americas

Catalog description

An interdisciplinary introductory survey of the visual and material cultures of North, Central, and South America from the Archaic Period to the present. Students will engage in a hemispheric investigation of the art and visual cultures generated in the Americas through the complex historical exchanges between Indigenous, European, African, and Asian societies and peoples. This class highlights not only the richness of the Americas’ Indigenous cultures, but also that of the material produced by the mechanism of colonialism and the development of the modern nation-state.