ARTH 24 INDIGENOUS ARTS OF THE AMERICAS

3 Units 3 hours lecture
Transfers: CSU, UC
Survey of the indigenous artistic traditions of North, Central, and South America extending from the United States and Mexico to Peru from circa 1000 BC to the Conquest. The course will address historical and contemporary cultures of the Western hemisphere (Native American and pre-Columbian) from a historical ethnographical context, examining the formal elements of painting, sculpture, architecture, ceramics, and textiles in the context of native socio-political systems and religious beliefs (formerly ART 24).
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