MeXicana/o(x) Art History (18481975)

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A look at the body of Chicana/o artistic production, from mid-1960 to the mid-1970s, through an examination of the historical, aesthetic and philosophical foundations of Chicana/o art theory and practice that evolved out of Mexican and Latin American Modernism. Revisits Mexican modernist ideas on race and gender, culture, identity and nation, revolution and class conflict; and sifts through the Indigenous values and concepts Chicana/os encountered through their study of Mexican history and culture during the mid 1960s and early 1970s.