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The Black Renaissance

Ferdinand de Jong

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This course examines how Black artists have expressed their experience of modernity. It situates subjectivity in the making of the Black Atlantic, that space of cultural exchanges between black people in Africa, the Americas and Europe as it emerged in the historical context of the slave trade. The purpose of this seminar is to examine how the articulation of a Black subjectivity has emerged in the conversations as they happened across the Black Atlantic. As African American artists familiarized themselves with African art, a conversation developed around such classical art in the Harlem Renaissance. This conversation inspired students from the French colonies who established the Negritude movement in Paris. Their ideas subsequently fed into the curriculum of new art schools in independent African nations. Such circular exchanges have led to the making of a Black Atlantic artistic production in which the reclamation of heritage, the denunciation of racism and the struggle for citizenship rights were returning issues. In this seminar you will learn how Black artists articulated their participation in and protest to modernity in the Harlem Renaissance in 1920s New York and Paris in the interwar period, in the decolonization movement, in the nascent African nationalisms, and in the Black Power movement in the 1960s. You will learn how Black diasporic artists articulated their remembrance of slavery and how they critically engaged with the intersections of race and gender in the representation of a Black subjectivity. In this seminar, we will look at the works of Aaron Douglas, Feral Benga, Wifredo Lam, the Dakar School, the Zaria Art Society, Faith Ringgold, David Hammons, Emory Douglas, Adrian Piper, Keith Piper, Frank Bowling, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Carrie Mae Weems, Sonia Boyce, Rotimi Fani-Kayode, Lubaina Himid, Fred Wilson, Yinka Shonibare, Chris Ofili, El Anatsui, Sammy Baloji, Kara Walker, and Zanele Muholi. Schließen

11 Termine

Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung

Do, 14:00 - 16:00 11 Termine

Do, 17.04.2025 14:00 - 16:00

Dozenten:
Prof. Dr. Ferdinand de Jong