Course

Modern Latin American Art - SAHT2404

Faculty: Faculty of Art & Design

School: School of Art & Design

Course Outline: Downloadcourse outline (PDF format)

Campus: Paddington

Career: Undergraduate

Units of Credit: 6

EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)

Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3

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Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule

Further Information: See Class Timetable

Available for General Education: Yes (more info)

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Description

This course provides you with an overview of the major twentieth-century art movements in Latin America. Beginning with Mexican Muralism and ending with Latin American conceptualism, it also considers Madi art in Argentina, Neo-concretism and Tropicalia in Brazil, kinetic art in Venezuela and Argentina and the School of the South of Torres-Garcia in Uruguay. Issues that will be addressed include the legacy of constructivism, abstraction in Latin American art, politics and art, the search for national languages of art and the links with international modernism.


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