Co-taught with Cecilia Fajardo-Hill, Visiting Research Scholar and Visiting Professor in the Program in Latin American Studies, 2020 

This course focuses on key issues and categories that have shaped notions and critical discourses about Latin American art in the 20th and 21st centiry. Organized as both a thematic survey and general methodological introduction, we will treat emblematic works of art and artistic movements ranging from Mexican muralism and the Indigenista movement to experiments with abstraction, pop, conceptual intervention, and the politics of performance. Through investigations of this work, we will discuss such questions as: What is Latin American art? What is modernism in Latin America? What is the legacy of colonialism in the region? How did Latin American artists engage trasnational networks and axes of solidarity under conditions of repression? How can postcolonial, decolonial, and feminist theory illuminate the structuring dynamics of the art and criticism produced in and about Latin America?