U.S. Latinx Art & Visual Culture

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This course introduces a range of media and materials used in 20th and 21stcentury Latinx visual culture. Topics will include public and site-specific murals of the 1920s and later; photographic modernism and documentary practices from the 1920s and 30s as art and politics; the emergence of alternative media outlets for photojournalism; comic book and graphic novels; narratives of mapping and recovered histories; and contemporary art practices. The course additionally focuses on understanding historiographies of art writing and encourages experimentation with emerging digital humanities methods and other strategies for addressing a range of art and visual culture audiences (scholarly, journalistic, curatorial, popular etc). A particular emphasis on the resources and perspectives of greater Los Angeles.