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Fall 2000 Professor Edward J. Sullivan

Schedule of lectures:

1.September 6: Introduction. Transition: 19th to 20th century. Colonial vs arts of Independence. Birth of the Academy. National self-awareness. Rise of new types of subjects: historical, genre, landscape, still life

2.September 13: Reactions in Latin America to European modernism. Assimilation of forms of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. Francisco Oller in Puerto Rico and the young Diego Rivera

3.September 20: Cubism as an international mode: Rivera, Tarsila do Amaral (Brazil), Emilio Pettoruti (Argentina)

4.September 27: Mexican Muralism: "los 3 grandes" Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, David Alfaro Siqueiros

5.October 4: Surrealism in Mexico and other parts of Latin America: Frida Kahlo, Maria Izquierdo, Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo, Matta

6.October 11: Social Realism and Indigenism in various parts of Latin America (1930s/40s): Eduardo Kingman, Osvaldo Guayasamin, Camilo Egas, Antonio Berni, Emiliano DiCavalcanti, Candido Portinari

7.October 18: The Cuban avant-garde movements: Group of 1927, Wifredo Lam, Amelia Pelaez and others

8.October 25: Popular traditions in Latin America. Folk art in post-revolutionary Mexico, meanings of "folk" and "popular" arts, tourist art, the art market etc . Possible consideration of "Popular" arts in the Caribbean (festivals), arts associated with popular religions (eg. Santera voudau)

9.November 1: Constructivism and Geometric abstraction in South America: Joaquin Torres- Garcia, the Escuela del Sur in Buenos Aires and Montevideo; Concrete and Neo-Concrete art in Brazil

10.November 8: Politics and art: 1950s-1990s. The Cuban Revolution, Nicaragua, socially engaged art in Puerto Rico and other topics

11.November 15: Architecture and sculpture in Latin America, 1950s to the present

12. November 22: Conceptual art, performance and other non-traditional forms

13.November 29: Art of the 80s. Identity and gender issues

14.December 6: Aspects of contemporary art, installations, photography