HHIS-310: History of Latin American Art

This course introduces several thousand years of the history of Latin American art (ca. 2000 BCE-2000 CE) with an emphasis on modern and contemporary art from the 1820s to the present. The course begins with an overview of pre-Contact cultures of Mesoamerica and the Andes. Our study then considers the art of the colonial period to the independence movements of the 1820s, the Eurocentric academic art of the 19th century, popular art and visual cultures, and the rise of modernism across Latin America in the 1920s. We will finish our course with selections of contemporary Latin American art. We will examine how Latin American artists have built on the region's shared artistic legacies as well as adapted to outside influences.