NOTE: See the assignments page for reading questions and assignments associated with weekly readings.
January
WEEK 1
26 Introduction to Art and Revolution
Craven, Introduction, pp.1-23
MEXICO
28 Introduction: The Mexican Revolution
Wasserman, Mark. “Epilogue” in Everyday Life and Politics in Nineteenth Century Mexico. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico, 2000, pp. 229-232.
Benjamin, Thomas. “Introduction” to La Revolución: Mexico’s Great Revolution as Memory, Myth and History. Austin: Univ. TX, 2000, pp. 13-23.
Brenner, Anita. The Wind that Swept Mexico [1943]. Austin, University TX, 1971. (Browse photo-narrative of the Revolution in copy on reserve.)
Recommended: Debroise, Olivier. “Counterpoint,” Mexican Suite. Austin, 2001. Frank, Patrick. “Revolution,” Posada’s Broadsides. Albuquerque, 1998.
February
WEEK 2
Post-revolutionary Nationalism and the State
2 Revolutionary Art Education: competing definitions
González Matute, Laura, “A New Spirit in Post-Revolutionary Art: The Open-Air Painting Schools and the Best Maugard Drawing Method, 1920-1930,” in Mexican Modern Art, 1900-1950, pp.28-43.
Manifestos Handout: Siqueiros, “Three Appeals…” (1921); “Protest of Independent Artists ¡30-30!” (1928)
Craven, Appendix A (Rivera, 1929)
4 Obregon and Vasconcelos: Public Education and Muralism
Craven, pp. 25-45
Catlin, Stanton. “Secretaría de Educación Pública,” Diego Rivera. Detroit, 1986.
Manifesto Handout: El Machete and Siqueiros, “Appeal to the Proletariat”
Rec: Rochford, Desmond. Mexican Muralists. San Francisco, 1993.
Folgarait, Leonard. Mural Painting and Social Revolution in Mexico. Cambridge, University, 1998.
WEEK 3
** Start reading The Underdogs for next week’s discussion
9 Mestizos, Indios or Campesinos?
Discussion/ Reading Response 1: López, Rick. “Noche Mexicana and the Exhibition of Popular Arts” in Eagle and the Virgin: Nation and Cultural Revolution in Mexico. Mary Kay Vaughan and Stephen Lewis, editors. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006.
Rec: Brading, David. “Official Indigenismo,” Bulletin of Latin American Research 7, n.1 (1988): 75-89. Ades, Dawn. “Indigenismo and Social Realism,” Latin American Art. New Haven, 1989.
11 Diego Rivera: Chapingo and the National Palace Murals
Craven, pp. 51-63.
Discussion/Reading Response 2: Folgarait, Leonard. “Revolution as Ritual” Oxford Art Journal 14 n.1 (1991): 18-33.
Rec: Catlin, “Universidad Autónoma de Chapingo,” Diego Rivera
WEEK 4
Alternative Visions of Revolution
16 Underbelly of the Revolution: Orozco and Los de Abajo
Reading: Craven, pp.46-51
Azuela, Mariano. The Underdogs
18 Taller de Gráficas Populares
Craven, pp. 63-71
http://www.graphicwitness.org/group/tgp.htm
Manifesto handout on TGP: “Declaration of Principles…” in Ades.
WEEK 5
23 Siqueiros and Communism in Mexico
Virtual mural exploration project
Craven, pp. 71-73
Jolly, Jennifer. “Siqueiros’s Communist Proposition for Mexican Muralism: a Mural for the Mexican Electricians’ Syndicate” in Mexican Muralism: a critical history. A.Anreus, R.Greeley, L.Folgarait, editors. Berkeley: University of California Press, forthcoming.
25 In the Shadow to the Big Three: Kahlo, Modotti, and Izquierdo
Zavala, Adriana. “In the Shadow of the Big Three: Maria Izquierdo” in Eagle and the Virgin: Nation and Cultural Revolution in Mexico. Mary Kay Vaughan and Stephen Lewis, editors. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006.
Discussion/Reading Response 3: Mulvey, Laura and Peter Wollen, “Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti” in Art in Modern Culture. F.Frascina and J.Harris, editors. London: Phaidon, 1992.
WEEK 6
2 Surrealism and Revolution
Discussion/Reading Response 4: Breton, Trotsky, Rivera, “Towards a Free and Revolutionary Art” (1938) reprinted in Art in Theory: 1900-1990, ed. Harrison and Wood. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2003.
Katsew, Iona. “Proselytizing Surrealism: André Breton and Mexico,” Review: Latin American Literature and Arts 51 (Fall 1995): 22-33.
CUBA
4 Introduction: Cuban Revolution
WEEK 7
March
9 Art and Policy in Cuba
Readings: Craven, pp. 75-85
Camnitzer, Luis. “Influence of the Government on the Arts,” in New Art of Cuba. Austin, University of TX, 1994.
11 Optimism of the 1960s
Cepero Amador, Iliana “Myths and Realities: Cuban Photography of the 1960s and 1970s,” Cuba: Art and History from 1868-today. Montreal: Museum of Fine Arts, 2008, 232-239.
Fornet, Ambrosio, “The Incredible Decade” Cuba: Art and History from 1868-today, pp.252-257.
Schütz, Günter. “Paris in Cuba 1967” Cuba: Art and History from 1868-today, 276-78.
**ESSAY #1 DUE
WEEK OFF
16, 18 SPRING BREAK (Note: Paper topic, preliminary bibliography due soon)
** View MOVIE –Memorias del subdesarrollo for March 30
WEEK 8
23 Art for the New Man (and Woman?): Discussion
Craven, pp.90-92
Discussion/Reading Response 5: Guevara, Ernesto (Che). “Socialism and Man in Cuba” (1965), in CHE: Selected Works of Ernesto Guevara, Bonachea and Valdes, ed. Cambridge and London, MIT Press.
25 Popular Art: Posters
Craven, pp.92-94
Kunzle, David. “Che’s ideals in the Cuban Poster: OSPAAAL, Frémez, ICAIC,” in Che Guevara: Icon, Myth, and Message. Los Angeles: University of CA, 1997, pp. 29-37.
Rec: Goldman, Shifra. “Painters into Poster Makers: Conversation with two Cuban Artists,” Dimensions of the Americas. Chicago, 1994. Lincoln Cushing. Revolución! Cuban Poster Art. San Francisco, 2003. Che, “Message to the Tricontinental” in CHE: Selected Works…
**RESEARCH PAPER TOPIC and PRELIMINARY BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE**
WEEK 9
30 Film Discussion: Memorias del subdesarrollo
Readings: Craven, pp. 85-92 OR Tim Barnard, “Cuban Cinema” Cuba: Art and History from 1868-today, pp. 298-303.
Crickenberger, Heather Marcelle. “The Flâneur” The Arcades Project Project.
Discussion/Film Response 7
Rec: King, John. “Cuba: Revolutionary Projections,” Magical Reels
April
1 1970s
Readings: Craven, pp. 94-114.
Montero Méndez, Hortensia. “The 1970s: Recovery and Contemporaneity,” Cuba: Art and History from 1868-today, 258-259.
WEEK 10
6 1980s: Volumen Uno – new approaches
Matamoros Tuma, Corina. “The Emergence of a New Poetics: Volumen Uno” Cuba: Art and History from 1868-today, 310-313.
Mosquera, Gerardo. “New Cuban Art Begins” Cuba: Art and History from 1868-today, 314-317.
Soto, Leandro. “Performance in Cuba in the 1980s: A Personal Testimony,” in Corpus Delecti. Coco Fusco, editor. London: Routledge, 2000, pp. 266-74. **OR** Menendez, Aldo Damian. “Art Attack: The Work of ARTECALLE” in Corpus Delecti, pp.174-80.
Discussion and Reading Response 5: See Craven, Appendix B: Mosquera, Geraldo. “The Social Function of Art…” pp. 180-82
8 Afro-Cuban Legacies
VIDEO: It Seems Like Happiness (Manuel Mendive performance/film)
Camnitzer, “Volumen I,” New Art Cuba. Austin, Univ. TX, pp. 35-60.
Rec: Geraldo Mosquera, “Africa in the Art of Latin America,” Art Journal (Winter 1992): 30-38. Arturo Lindsay. Santeria Practices in Contemporary Latin American Art. Washington, 1996
WEEK 11
13 Afro-Cuba II
Bettelheim, Judith. Excerpts, AfroCuba: Works on Paper. Seattle: University of Washington, 2005.
Ramos Cruz, Guillermina, “Grupo Antillano and the Marginalization of Black Artists,” in Pérez Sarduy and Stubbs (ed.) Afro Cuban Voices: On Race and Identity in Contemporary Cuba. Gainsville, University Press of Florida, 2000.
15 1990s - Recent Trends
**PAPER THESIS AND EXPANDED BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE**
Mosquera, Gerardo, “New Cuba Art Y2K” Art Cuba, Holly Block (ed.). New York: Abrams, 2001.
Matamoros Tuma, Corina. “The Island Burden” Cuba: Art and History from 1868-today, 336-337.
**VIEW MOVIE – Fresa y Chocolat**
WEEK 12
20 Art and Life
Film: Sin Embargo, 2003 (dir. Judith Grey)
Goddard, Dan R. “No Sir, Mr. Castro, it’s not art” San Antonio Express-News.
Orlando Hernández, “Gabinete Ordo Amoris,” Gabinete Ordo Amoris. London, Barbican Centre, 1999.
Orlando Hernández, “Pleasure of Reference,” Art Cuba.
22 Film Discussion (Fresa y Chocolat): Religion, Sexuality and Revolution
Discussion/Film and Reading Response 8: Shaw, Deborah. "Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s Changing Images of the Revolution” Contemporary Cinema of Latin America. London, New York, Continuum, 2003.
Rec: Arguelles, Lourdes and B. Ruby Rich, “Homosexuality, Homophobia, and Revolution: Notes Towards an Understanding of the Cuban Lesbian and Gay Experience,” in Hidden From History, M.Bauml Duberman, M. Vicinus, G.Chauncey, Jr., eds. New York: NAL Books, 1989.
NICARAGUA
WEEK 13
27 Introduction
Readings: Skidmore, Thomas E. and Peter H. Smith, “Nicaragua: Dynasty to revolution” in Modern Latin America. Oxford, Univ., 1992, 308, 326-330.
FSLN Manifesto (1969), Nicaragua Reader
29 Cultural Democracy
Readings: Craven, 135-149
Cardenal, Ernesto, “Toward a New Democracy of Culture,” Nicaragua Reader. Discussion / Reading Response
LaDuke, “Piñatas of War and Peace,” Compañeras: Women, Art and Social Change in Latin America. San Francisco, 1985. NOTE: this download includes the readings from this book for next week.
May
WEEK 14
4 The Artists: Primitivists and Vanguardists
Readings: Craven, 143-156 and Appendices E and F
LaDuke, “Peasant Painters of Solentiname,” Compañeras: Women, Art and Social Change in Latin America. San Francisco, 1985. NOTE: this download is the same as last week.
**RESEARCH PAPER DUE**
6 Murals and the Public
Readings: Craven, 156-171
LaDuke, “Murals of Country Life,” Compañeras: Women, Art and Social Change in Latin America. San Francisco, 1985. NOTE: this is in the download you already have.
Browse and read selections: Kunzle, David. Revolutionary Murals of Nicaragua. Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: Univ.CA press, 1995.
WEEK 15
11 Class meeting 11-12 am
The Future
Reading: Craven, 171-175
*FINAL TAKE HOME ESSAY DUE**
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