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Easter Semester—2025
Jan 14, 2025 |
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| ARTH 343 - Visualizing the Other in Early Modern Latin America: Race, Ethnicity, and Art |
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This course examines how people of different races and ethnicities in Latin America were represented in art during the period of Spanish and Portuguese colonial rule (approximately 1500-1820). The course focuses primarily on how Europeans used both religious and secular art to maintain a vision of a complex and diverse set of indigenous ethnic groups (Nahua, Taino, Aztec, Maya, Inca, etc.), as well as people of Asian and African descent as simply the colonial “other.” We will explore how these images were informed by broader social, political, and religious motivations, while also examining if and how some representations confronted and challenged hegemonic identity norms.
4.000 Credit hours Levels: Undergraduate Schedule Types: Final Examination, Lecture/Seminar Humanities, Non-Languages Division Art, Art History, Vis Studies Department Course Attributes: AH--Latin America, AH--Pre-Modern/Early Modern, G6SP, G7, MEMS--Early Modern, WGS - Postcolonial/Transnation |
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