Consideration also is given to materials used, techniques of construction, individual and tribal styles, as well as to the meaning and function of various art forms within Native American societies. Emphasis is on identifying the major works of artists involved in these aesthetic developments. Ideology and formal ideas are analyzed in paintings, literary works, films and objects. The student will be acquainted with various facets of theory and design-oriented works in the United States, Canada, South America and Europe. Explores the social, cultural and political context within which this movement of the 1960s developed.
Emphasis is on artists in New York and Britain.
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