2024-2025 Catalog 
    
    Oct 02, 2024  
2024-2025 Catalog

ART 317 - The Art of Protest


1.00

This upper division course provides a critical overview of key figures, debates and artistic movements from the 1960s and 1970s, a moment marked by a heightened interest in social justice as it pertains to race, class, and gender, as well as a criticism of imperialism, and aggressive capitalism. This class focuses on artists from Latin America coming of age at a time shaped by the military dictatorships that ruled the region, and who produced conceptual artworks to express dissent and eschew censorship. Prerequisite: ART 110 or ART 111, or permission by instructor. Gen Ed Competency: Engage Diversity.