In this lecture we will deal with contemporary art, mainly in the
Caribbean but also in Mexico. Notions of transportation - forced or
chosen - inform the work of Cuban artists such as KCHO whose large scale
installations often deal with themes of migration across waters. This is
also true of some of the pieces of Cuban-American artist Ernesto Pujol.
Pujol was the first Cuban-American after ANA MENDIETA to have an important
one-person exhibition in Havana (1996). We will also consider some of the
works of Dominican artists Tony Capellan, Belkis Ramirez and Marcos Lora
Read.
Returning to Puerto Rico we will look at the large scale paintings by
Arnaldo Roche Rabell, which, while they are 2-dimensional - have many
ramifications for performativity and physical contact (as they are often
made by wrapping the subject of the picture in the actual canvas and
painting over it). Roche, too, deals with subjects such as alienation and
dislocation.
Finally, the significant contemporary Mexican artist Nahum Zenil will be
briefly
examined.
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Please note: for the final exam you will be required to hand in summaries
of the following articles:
Bazzano Nelson "Joaquin Torres Garcia..."
Jacqueline Barnitz "New Figuration, Pop & Assemblage..."
D. Kunzle on Che Guevara
S. Goldman on Ana Mendieta
Victor Zamudio Taylor: chapter on "Chicano Art" in Edward J. Sullivan
(ed.) LATIN AMERICAN ART IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
or
T. Ybarra-Frausto article on Chicano art
ALSO: you will be responsible for Chapters 10 and 11 in your Lucie-Smith
Text.
