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Fall 2000 Professor Edward J. Sullivan

office hours: Tu and Wed. 12 to 1 and by appointment e-mail: edward.sullivan@nyu.edu telephone: 212-998-8191 fax: 212-995-4182

ATTENDANCE Your attendance is MANDATORY AT EVERY CLASS Please BE ON TIME for every class No recording of lectures, please No eating or drinking in the classroom

********PLEASE NOTE******* The last day of class is December 6. The final exam date will be announced as soon as it is known (possibly Dec 20th) DO NOT plan to be away for the final exam. DO NOT purchase airplane tickets for any date prior to Dec. 20th. I do NOT give early exams and there will be no make ups except in the case of illness with a physicians note explaining - in detail - the circumstances of the illness. Illness-related make up exams will not be given until mid-March, 2001.

texts: Edward Lucie-Smith LATIN AMERICAN ART OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Veerle Poupeye CARIBBEAN ART recommended books: Dawn Ades LATIN AMERICAN ART: THE MODERN ERA Edward J. Sullivan LATIN AMERICAN ART IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY You will find a list of readings in the texts as well as in articles which supplement the texts further on in this syllabus.

course requirements: 1.attendance at every lecture. Please DO NOT arrive late for the class. 2. typed summaries of each of the supplementary articles . The first seven summaries (word processed synopses of what you have read) will be given to me on the day of the mid-term. The last seven will be given to me on the day of the final exam. 3. mid-term (I will give you detailed instructions for the exam 2 weeks before) 4. exhibition reviews (several 2/3 reviews based on exhibitions in the NYC museums and galleries on view during the term). Information forthcoming. 5. Final exam (the final will not be cumulative but will deal with the material in the 2nd half of the course).

readings: (Please note that several copies of each article will be on reserve in the Fine Arts study room, located on the third floor, just to the left of the main entrance to the department) week 1. Lucie-Smith pp. 7-20 Dawn Ades "Independence and its Heroes" in LATIN AMERICAN ART:THE MODERN ERA week 2. Poupeye pp. 25 to 47 week 3. Sullivan "Notes on the Birth of Modernity in Latin American Art" in exhibition catalogue LATIN AMERICAN ARTISTS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, NY MoMA, 1993 week 4. Lucie-Smith pp 49-67 Max Kozloff "Orozco and Rivera: Mexican Fresco Painting & the Paradoxes of Nationalism" in MoMA catalogue (cited above) week 5. Lucie Smith pp.88-108 Dore Ashton "Surrealism and Latin America" in MoMA catalogues (cited above) week 6. Lucie-Smith pp 69-77 Shifra Goldman "Mexican Muralism: its Influence in Latin America and the US" week 7. Poupeye pp.49-64 Gerardo Mosquera "Modernism from Afro-America: Wifredo Lam" week 8. Lucie-Smith pp 79-82 AND 121-142 suggested reading: Florencia Bazzano Nelson "Joaquin Torres-Garc’a and the Tradition of Constructivist Art" from MoMA catalogue (cited above) week 9. Poupeye pp 81-110 week 10. Lucie-Smith pp. 110-119 David Kunzle introduction to CHE GUEVARA: ICON, MYTH AND MESSAGE week 11. To be assigned week 12. Poupeye pp 183-216 Shifra Goldman "Ana Mendieta. A Return to Natal Earth" week 13. To be assigned week 14. Lucie-Smith pp 187-207week 14. Lucie-Smith pp 187-207