ARTH 2550 - Introduction to Art History: Latin American Art

(crosslisted)
(also LATA 2050) (HB) (CA-AS)

Fall. 4 credits.

Staff.

Introduces students to Latin American art from antiquity to present and explores broad theoretical problems in the field. The art of local cultures (e.g., Maya, Aztec, and Inca) is discussed as well as episodes in the arts of colonial and modern Latin America. Topics include cultural confluence and the concept of style, the representation of national identity, art and political resistance, intersections of high art and popular culture and the applicability of specific modern, postmodern, and postcolonial theories to Latin American art.