CHS 3481 - Latin American Moderns: from Rivera to Botero

Credits: 3

Prerequisite(s): ARTH 1800 with C- or better or CHS 1000; or permission of department

Prerequisite(s) or Corequisite(s): ENG 1020 or ENG 1021

Description: Students in this course are introduced to the artistic developments of modernism and postmodernism in Latin American history from the wars of independence in the 19th century to the political upheavals of the 1970s and ‘80s. During this period many artists gained international reputations, from Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to Roberto Matta and Fernando Botero, bringing greater visibility to Latin America. Students examine these and other artists of differing periods and nationalities within a unifying thematic framework. These themes include: responses to the colonial past; nationalism and public art; indigenismo; folk/ popular arts; and relations with the European avant-garde. The ways that artists of varying nationalities and artistic philosophies approached these themes created the many distinct but intersecting manifestations of modernism within 20th century Latin America.

Note: Credit will be granted for only one prefix: ARTH or CHS.

Cross Listed Course(s): ARTH 3481