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WEEK 11 (cont.)
PART III: Cultural Encounters

Wednesday, April 4
Foundations of the Aztec Empire
Matos Moctezuma, Eduardo, "The Aztec Main Pyramid: Ritual Architecture at Tenochtitlan" Ancient Americas

Terms and Images
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Friday, April 6
Colonial New Spain: Crossroads of the Americas
Rubial García, "The Kingdom of New Spain at a Crossroads," Grandeur of Viceregal Mexico. Houston, Museum Fine Arts and Mexico, Museo Franz Mayer, 2002.

Terms and Images
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Friday: Last Day to revoke S/D/F
            Last Day to Withdraw with a W

WEEK 12
Monday, April 9
Discussion: Mestizo Cultures
Peterson, Jeanette Favrot, "The Virgin of Guadalupe: Symbol of Conquest or Liberation?" Art Journal 51: 4 (1992): 39-47.

Wednesday, April 11
Art nd Empiricism in Latin America
Ades, Dawn. "Nature, Science and the Picturesque," Latin American Art in the Modern Era.  New Haven, Yale, 1989.

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Friday, April 13
Encounters on the Western Frontier
Sweet, Jill and Katherine Hauser, Excerpts, Staging the Indian: The Politics of Representation.  Saratoga Springs, NY, Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, 2002.

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WEEK 13
Monday, April 16
Discussion: Contemporary Artists Respond
Marcus Amerman, Judith Lowery, James Luna, from Staging the Indian
Due Friday: response to class discussion or readings and chosen contemporary artwork.  See website link: Contemporary artists respond to Curtis

Wednesday, April 18
Modernism and "Primitivism"
Fletcher, Valerie.  "Introduction," Crosscurrents of Modernism. Washington, DC, 1992.

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Friday, April 20
Africa in the Americas
Video: Bahía: Africa in the Americas
Due: 1-page reflection paper: "Contemporary Artists Respond to Curtis"

Film Studyguide/Questions

WEEK 14
Monday, April 23
African Cultural Resistance
Mosquera, Geraldo.  "Africa in the Art of Latin America," Art Journal (Winter 1992): 30-38.

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Wednesday, April 25
Discussion: Primitivism

Friday, April 27
Race and Nation
Pinder, Kymberly N.  "Biraciality and Nationhood in Contemporary American Art," in Race-ing Art History: Critical Readings in Race and Art History

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WEEK 15
Monday, April 30
Video Art: Shirin Neshat
Ravenal, John B.  "Shirin Neshat: Double Vision," in Expanding Female Agency.  Ed. N. Broude and M. Garrard.  Berkeley: Univ. California, 2005.

Video Sudyguide/Questions
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Wednesday, May 2
Global Americas
Fusco, Coco.  "Bilingualism, Biculturalism, and Borders," in English is Broken Here: notes on cultural fusion in the Americas.  NYC: New Press, 1995.

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Friday, May 4
Discussion and review: The Role of the Artist in the Americas

Due: Optional Paper Revisions (2 grades will be averaged)