ARTH 3350 Latin American Art: 20th Century

This course explores the art of the modern era (1820 to 1980) in the Caribbean and South America. This course considers the establishment of the art academies in Latin America during the latter part of the 19th Century and the shift away from academic painting in the 1920s. This course also will analyze the change in the 1930s to indigenismo and social subjects; abstraction; surrealism; Indo-Americanism and Afro-Caribbean identity in the 1940s; concrete-optical-kinetic movements in the 1950s and 1960s, and Latin American women artists of the 1970s and 1980s. May be taken as a CLST elective. Prerequisites: arts-2361'>ARTS 2361 and 2362. 

Offered

As needed