Colonialisms in Latin American Art

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This course focuses on recent art historical scholarship that deals with colonial art from Latin America (created 1520-1810) and the new paradigms of research and theory being developed for it. According to the conventional geography of art history, “colonial” art was produced in peripheral spaces, lacking political (and consequently artistic) autonomy. An art history that centered metropolitan and imperial capitals inevitably cast on “colonial” art as something less than –in quality, in originality—that of these centers. Instead, this course will look at new paradigms for colonial art that have emerged in the wake of critiques of a Euro-centric world order, and the practice of art history shaped by it.