ARTH 699: Topics in Art History

ARTH 699-001: Latin American Vanguards
(Spring 2012)

04:30 PM to 07:10 PM W

Off-Campus Location OCL

Section Information for Spring 2012

With a focus on five artistic centers (Mexico City, Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Lima, and Havana), this seminar examines avant-garde movements (the vanguardias in Spanish or vanguardas in Portuguese) in Latin America during the 1920s and 1930s. The artists and writers who formed these groups shared aims with the European historical avant-gardes that inspired them. In their challenge to the status-quo, they also employed the similar strategies of manifesto writing, journal production, and the staging of public events of provocation. The Latin American vanguardias, however, accounted for specific social and political concerns, cultural infrastructures, and locations on the so-called periphery. We will undertake theoretical and historical readings (including primary texts) to explore the rhetorical strategies and visual culture of several vanguardias. The seminar will question the meanings and conditions of modernity in the region and investigate the issues, forms, and media that define Latin American modernisms.

ARTH 699 001 meets at the Smithsonian.

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Course Information from the University Catalog

Credits: 3

Research seminar on aspects of art history. Topics vary, but course entails extensive critical readings and discussion, development of bibliographies, and advanced-level research papers. Notes: May be repeated when topic is different. May be repeated within the term for a maximum 15 credits.
Specialized Designation: Topic Varies
Registration Restrictions:

Enrollment limited to students with a class of Advanced to Candidacy, Graduate, Junior Plus, Non-Degree or Senior Plus.

Enrollment is limited to Graduate, Non-Degree or Undergraduate level students.

Students in a Non-Degree Undergraduate degree may not enroll.

Schedule Type: Lec/Sem #1, Lec/Sem #2, Lec/Sem #3, Lec/Sem #4, Lec/Sem #5, Lec/Sem #6, Lec/Sem #7, Lec/Sem #8, Lec/Sem #9, Sem/Lec #10, Sem/Lec #11, Sem/Lec #12, Sem/Lec #13, Sem/Lec #14, Sem/Lec #15, Sem/Lec #16, Sem/Lec #17, Sem/Lec #18, Seminar
Grading:
This course is graded on the Graduate Regular scale.

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