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Art: Its History and Meaning

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    • 1. Introduction
    • 2. Culture Formations
    • 3. Art, Myth, Power
    • 4. Sacred Spaces
    • 5. The Soul of Objects
    • 6. Art, Faith and Philosophy
    • 7. European Art through the Ages
    • 8. Picturing the Other
    • 9. Modernism and Other Tales of Progress
    • 10. Art and Revolution
    • 11. National Modernisms
    • 12. Embodied Art
    • 14. Image Politics
    • 15. Institutional Anatomies
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Art: Its History and Meaning

9. Art and Revolution

T 2 Nov: Harlem Renaissance

Archibald Motley, Black Belt, 1934

Reading: Mitchell_Black Renaissance

Slides: Harlem Renaissance

Th 4 Nov: Chinese Cultural Revolution

Yan Yongsheng, Unite for Greater Victory!, 1974

Reading: Art in Turmoil

Slides: Chinese Cultural Revolution

Transcript: Transcript Chinese Cultural Revolution

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