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Course Description

Summary

In this transcultural, transhistorical upper-level course, we will study the crucial phases and practitioners of early modern Netherlandish art—-from Jan Van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden to Clara Peeters plus Peter Paul Rubens, Rembrandt, Vermeer, and de Hooch. Then—we’ll recalibrate and look at the ways in which modern and contemporary artists of color, particularly Black artists, e.g. Mickalene Thomas, Kerry James Marshall, Romare Bearden, Roy DeCarava, Toyin Odutola, Fabiola Jean-Louis—and Nina Simone—are in formal and conceptual conversation with characteristically Northern genres and aesthetics such as portraiture, genre painting, and still life—-but also reflection, materiality, and figuration. Race, gender, and intersectionality will abound. Short paper and long paper and a final presentation. You will learn how to look, read, and write closely using both traditional and experimental art historical methods + critical race theory and Black feminism.