Dear Students,
If you are still in need of fulfilling your upper-level Art History requirement, please consider taking Art 350 or Art 352. Please review the course descriptions below and feel free to register. Thank you.
Visual Arts Department
Art 350-20th-21st Century Latin American Art
This course examines a range of art forms from Latin American countries within cultural and historic contexts, focusing on artists active during the 20th and 21st centuries; studies Latin America's indigenous and African heritages and its colonial past from decolonizing perspectives; and explores major artistic trends (e.g., Muralism, Constructive Universalism, Neo-Concretism), as well as why the distinct -- and problematic -- category of "Latin American" art has emerged in academia and the international art world.
Art 352-Art of Indigenous Peoples of the Americas
This course focuses on artwork by Indigenous Peoples of the Americas (Latin America, U.S.A, Canada), attending to the power dynamics of representation and how artists engage/challenge political policies and laws that have greatly affected Indigenous societies from Europeans' arrival in the Americas to the present day; studies the historical, cultural, and political contexts of the artwork; and chronicles resistance to oppression and the flourishing of Indigenous voices in the arts today.