Traditions in Louisiana and Southern Art

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The class “Tradition in Louisiana Art: 1780-2020” will provide an in-depth study of the development of artistic styles in Louisiana and the American South from the late eighteenth century up to the twentieth-first century. Among the topics that will be explored are the work of the nineteenth-century portrait and landscape artists, African American artists, women artists, Woodward Brothers and Newcomb Pottery, regional southern impressionism, southern outsider and folk art, Florida Highway Men, Louisiana and southern photography, Charleston Renaissance, Mississippi art in the mid twentieth century, and twentieth century Louisiana art