ARTH 3070 - Arts of the Transpacific: Diaspora and Asian Pacific American Visual Culture

This course investigates the intersections of art and diaspora through the lens of Asian Pacific American visual culture, including trade objects, fine art, commercial images, documentary photography, the built environment, and popular media. By exploring the role of the visual arts in multicultural and transnational communities, this course is attentive to both the importance of trade in shaping material objects of exchange as well as the impact of human migration on artistic creativity and production. Topics include the Manila Galleon trade, the architecture of Chinatowns, Japanese internment camps as sites of art making, and modern and contemporary artists of the Asian Pacific American diaspora.