Modern Arts Latin America

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This course introduces students to the study of modernity and visual arts In Latin America, from the late 19th-century through roughly 1950. We will trace the radical social transformations of this period and the art that reflected. resisted, or intervened In these processes. emphasizing key themes: the formation of collective Identities (and the intersections of race, class, and nation); the impact of social and political revolutions and counter-revolutions; the reception and reconstitution of European avant-garde art; and national, regional, and universal definitions of artistic traditions.