Art History 359
American Indian Art History

This course provides a thematic introduction to contemporary (1960 to present) forms of Native North American Indian Art drawing from historic (pre and post contact) precedents. Thus, while a broad geographical frame of reference is addressed and specific historic eras identified, course discussion and lectures are generated from the conceptual themes of contact, conflict, exchange, appropriation and re-appropriation of American Indian imagery, materials, and ideas, rather than form the more descriptive and abstract categories such as Southwest painting or Plains beadwork.