Latin American Modern Art
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ARTH26500-01, 02
T&Th 1:10, 4:00
Gannett 115
Fall 2011
Professor Jennifer Jolly
Gannett 111
jjolly@ithaca.edu
office hours: T 2:30-3:30, W 1-2:30, Th 11-12, or by appt.
| This course is an introduction to art produced in Latin America from the Independence period (19th century) through the 20th century. Chief among its concerns will be identifying competing definitions of what it means to make "art," be "modern," and identify "Latin America." In addition we will consider themes including nationalism and internationalism, race and representation, the art market, and the relationship between art, politics, and social movements, as well as major art movements in Latin America: modernismo, the Mexican Mural Movement, Surrealism, Constructive Universalism, nuevo figuracion, conceptualism and Chicano art, among others. | ||
Superficially, Latin America is a conglomerate of nations and cultures knit together by religion and language, mostly Catholic and mostly Spanish. But it also is an entity glued together by both a culture of resistance against invading cultures and utopian longing for continental unity. I would go so far as to say that the concept of “Latin America” is in itself a utopian construct. One could even say, negating Simón Bolivar’s dream, that Latin America is not much more that a conceptualist [art] piece…
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