51-2111 Revolution and Art: Latin America

What do revolutions do to the arts? How does a radical change in society affect the production, distribution and consumption of the arts? What do the arts do to revolutions? This course is a study of artistic production during twentieth-century revolutionary periods in Latin America. Students examine issues of popular/official culture, censorship, propaganda, and the main contributions of these revolutions in literature, film, music, and the visual arts. This is a rotating topics course.
3 Credits