Overview
Description
This course explores the art of Mexico from 1500 to the present, including late ancient art, New Spain Viceregal art, and modern and contemporary art in the historical territories of Mexico. The course considers a variety of production in painting, architecture, sculpture, photography, performance, and new media.
Requirements
Prerequisites
- General Education courses (CO1-CO3) completed
- at least 3 courses from CO4-CO8 completed
- Junior or Senior standing
Original catalog text
Prerequisites
Prerequisite(s): General Education courses (CO1-CO3) completed; at least 3 courses from CO4-CO8 completed; Junior or Senior standing.
Units
Lecture3
Catalog Details
Offering
Offered: Every Fall - Odd Years
Terms
fall
Core
CO10, CO13
Restrictions
Junior or Senior standing
Attributes
Standard
Learning Outcomes
- explain critical visual, cultural, and social aspects of artistic referential works in different media and their cultural, social, and historical contexts.
- use primary and secondary sources from interrelated disciplinary fields of Art History, History, Visual Culture, and Cultural Studies to critically discuss issues concerning race, social class, or gender in works of art, architecture, and design produced in the historical territories of Mexico.
- analyze academic arguments and apply art historical and visual culture analysis to propose personal and critical approaches and sound arguments concerning intersecting social and cultural forces and traditions.
- integrate and synthesize sources, art works and disciplinary fields to discuss art works of painting, architecture, sculpture, photography, performance, or new media in the historical territories of Mexico.