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What images were capable of representing the Latin American nations that were germinated in early 19th Century independence movements? This course, in which portraits will be relevant, will analyze a group of issues and images related to the transition between Colonial times, when the images that had given meaning to Central and South America’s symbolic life until then had to be replaced by other capable to express the social, political and cultural times of an independent Latin America. How did they gestate and evolve, and what role did art images play in the organization of new Latin American societies? We will focus on images of heroes, indigenous people, black people and women developed along with the new order of art institutions that were emerging in the context of newly born Latin American societies. Images of kings had to be replaced and those who had nurtured and carried out revolutions needed to be represented. New nations in the process of germinating also meant confrontations and wars. Men as well as women carried out the task of establishing a post-Colonial order. How were they presented in images? This course will focus on the analysis of a group of paradigmatic images from 19th Century Latin American Art. However, this class will not examine the past in terms of a time period that has concluded. On the contrary, we will study a group of contemporary works that take up 19th Century iconography again with a critical analysis that lends it significance today. We will analyze also cases of contemporary works in which issues of memory, reelaborating the past, and affording the conflictivity of the present are involved. Particularly, we will analyze some public actions against images of the heroes, the debates, and the replacements that happenned in Latin American cities. This class will look at the power held by images to configure as well as to deconstruct history, approached from a critical perspective. |
