10:30 AM to 11:45 AM MW
Innovation Hall 132
Section Information for Fall 2012
This course will provide an in-depth discussion of pivotal 20th century Latin American artists and their contributions in order to establish a wider and more complex vision of Modern Art. Latin American art in the 20th century evolved through a conversation with the European avant-garde. Some artists were part of/or re-interpreted European trends and transformed them into uniquely Latin American new world cosmopolitan vocabularies through figurative, geometric abstraction, constructivist and conceptual styles, whereas other artists developed unique expressions of national identity and national imaginaries in reaction to international modernist tendencies. Therefore, the course will address issues such as modernismo and the avant-garde, the relationship between social realism and politics, the expression of specific national identities versus the adoption of universal cosmopolitan trends, Surrealism and the perception of the “fantastic” in Latin American art, new world geometric abstraction, abstraction vs. figuration in the 1950s and 1960s, conceptual and non-objective art, exile and politics and other trends since the 1970s. Key artists such as Rivera, Orozco, Siqueiros, Torres-Garcia, Matta, Guayasamin, de Szyslo, Berni, Oiticica, Otero, and Cruz-Diez as well as women artists Tarsila do Amaral, Kahlo, Izquierdo, Varo, Carrington, Pelaez, Gego, Clark, Minujin, Salcedo who made unique contributions to Latin American art will be studied.Tags:
Credits: 3
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