| Description | This course introduces the art history of British
Columbia Aboriginal people, beginning with
pre-contact/pre-historic period until the 1960's.
It includes the earliest BC Aboriginal art forms
recorded by archaeologists and oral histories, as
well as the transitional shifts in both
utilitarian and aesthetic objects. The course
takes a thematic and ethnographic approach within
a historical, socio-political and cultural
context examining cultural communities in terms
of resource materials, tools and implements used
in material production. It explores issues of
cultural appropriation and "authenticity" and the
governmental policies that influenced and/or
affected the BC Aboriginal art practices. |
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