ARTH 4350 Modern Art of Mexico

This course will cover the modern art of Mexico beginning with the Mexican Academy (post-Independence) to 20th Century art of the 1980s including the art of Rocio Maldonado, Julio Galan, and Nahum Zenil. The course considers the shift away from academic painting in the 1920s when artists (and writers) sought to modernize their cultural image, the change in the 1930s to social subjects especially during the muralist movement, the alternative ideology of Tamayo, surrealism in the 1940s, the architecture of the 1950s.