Stanford University, Department of Art & Art History
Latin American Avant-Garde
Third Quarter, 2006
Art and Art History Dept., Seminar Room 103
Instructor: Barbaro Martinez Ruiz
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Office Hours: Thursday: 3:30– 4:30 PM (Art and Art History Dept., Room 109)
Consideration of three Latin American art models: Mexico, Brazil, and Cuba, with emphasis on their avant-garde periods and cultural and historical contexts. Special attention paid to economic, cultural and political specificities and to a discussion of the African contribution to the modern art practices in Latin American art.
Participation and Assessment
Each student will prepare two short (maximum 20 minute) presentations. The first will be an introduction to the subject area of the seminar for that week; the second can be either a substantial critique or analysis of avant-garde paradigm, a piece from any of bay area museums, or a contemporary artist or the leading of a theoretical discussion of Latin American avant-garde or modernism building upon class theory and your own thinking. The class will include regular written exercises on specific reading or themes provided by the professor.
The course will be assessed by 20-25 page essay that will be published in the Stanford African Art Database (OrbisAfrica). The essay should utilize a clear methodological strategy to either address and critique a particular case study drawn from class material, or describe and analyze in detail an exhibition or display on a given theme.
FINAL DEADLINE FOR ESSAY: June 8, 2006
Required reading is listed below by week. I have also listed a wide range of suggested further reading on given topics. All suggested reading can be found in the Art Library. The professor will provide the required weekly reading.
April
Thursday: 6, 2006
Pre-Modern Times
-Jacqueline Barnitz, “Modern and the Break with Academic Art, 1890-1934,” in Twentieth Ventury Art of Latin America, pp. 13-42.
-Dawn Ades, “Academic and History of Painting,” in Art in Latin America, pp. 27-41.
-Stanton Loomis Catlin, “ Traveller-Reporters Artists and Empirical Tradition…,” in Art in Latin America, pp. 41-63.
-Dawn Ades, “Nature, Science and the Picturesque,” in Art in Latin America, pp. 63-101.
Thursday: 13, 2006
Modern or Inspired
-Nestor Garcia Canclini: Modernity after Postmodernity, pp. 20-53. (Class Xerox)
-Andrea Guita: Strategies of Modernity in Latin America, pp. 53-69. (Class Xerox)
-Edward Lucie-Smith, “The Fist Modern Movements,” in Latin American Art of the 20th Century, pp. 37-49.
-Mari Carmen Ramirez, “A Highly Topical Utopia,” in pp. 1-18.
-Jacqueline Barnitz, “The Avant-Garde of the 20’s,” in Twentieth Century Art of Latin America, pp. 13-42.
Charles Harrison, “Modernism,” in Critical Terms for Art History, pp. 188-202.
Anna Gibson, “Avant-Grade,” in Critical Terms for Art History, pp. 202-217.
Thursday: 20 2006
Reading Manifestos-I
-Early Modern Currents, pp. 3-14.
-Figural Realist Styles, pp. 33-48.
Thursday: 27, 2006
Reading Manifestos-II
-Fantasy and Surrealism on the Mid-Twenties Century, pp. 67-91.
-David Ades, “Manifestos” in Art in Latin America, pp. 306-337.
May
Thursday: 4, 2006
Class Presentation
Thursday: 11, 2006
Mexico, Cuba and Brazil-I
-Marta Traba,“ Mexican Muralism,” in Art in Latin America: 1900-1980, pp. 13-53.
-Jacqueline Barnitz, “Surrealism, Wartime, and New World Imagery,” in Twentieth Century Art of Latin America, pp. 13-42.
-Dawn Ades, “Modernism and the Search for Roots,” in Art in Latin America, pp. 125-149.
-Dawn Ades, The Mexican Mural Movement,” in Art in Latin America, pp. 151-195.
______, Indigenist and Social Realism,” in Art in Latin America, pp. 195-213.
Thursday: 18, 2006
Mexico, Cuba and Brazil-II
Juan A. Martinez, “Origin and Early Development of Modern Cuban Painting,” in Cuban Art & National Identity, pp. 1-29.
______, “The Vanguardia Generation in Its Social Context,” in Cuban Art & National Identity, pp. 32-47.
Thursday: 25, 2006
Mexico, Cuba and Brazil-III
-Benedito Nunes, “Anthropophagic Utopia,” in Inverted Utopia: Avant-Garde art in Latin America, pp. 57-63.
June
Thursday: 1, 2006
The Second Vanguadia
-Marta Traba,“New Blood from the Avant-Grade,” in Art in Latin America: 1900-1980, pp. 53-83.
-Dawn Ades, “Private Worlds and Public Myths,” in Art in Latin America, pp. 215-251.
Thursday: 8, 2006
FINAL DEADLINE FOR ESSAY