Topic: Roots & Revolution

Via the media of printmaking, photography, painting, and film, this course thematically
surveys the principal artists and movements in early 20th-century Mexican art.  Against the
backdrop of the Mexican Revolution, an acute historical consciousness, and idealism for the
future, the following themes and artists, among others, will be examined:  Velasco's Vistas,
Posada's Mexico, Goitia--Mexico's Goya, Saturnino's Sensuality, Mexican Muralism,
Photography and Revolution, Frida Kahlo's Brush of Anguish, the Art of the Fantastic, Magical
Realism, and Hollywood's perspective from Brando to 'Like Water for Chocolate.'
Course requirements include one midterm exam (30%), one final (non-comprehensive) exam
(30%), three short papers (one or all may be in class) (30%), and a one-page journal response to
one image per topic (not to be graded, only completed and turned in) (10%).  An extra
assignment/project will be exected from graduate students.