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Subject: Art History (Grad) (ARHS)
CRN: 21347
Lecture
St Paul: O'Shaughnessy Education Center 414
Requirements Met:
Art History Museum Studies
Only a few Pre-Hispanic painted manuscripts survived the arrival of Europeans in Mesoamerica. However, the visual traditions of the region did not disappear overnight, and, for a few generations at least, documents continued to be made in the Native pictorial style. The content and focus of these documents varied greatly across the Late Postclassic (AD1325-1520s) and the early colonial and viceregal periods (ca. 1521-1570), as well as across various cultural and geographic boundaries – but they all share a few commonalities. This seminar will focus on some of those shared traits, namely the sense of place communicated by the artists and patrons of these documents and the significant events recorded as taking place within those spaces. Seminar participants will delve into the pictorial conventions used by the people of Mesoamerica to transmit information, the significance of books and book makers during this time, and the use that painted books were put to record history, interpret events (past, present, and, even, future), and, in the face of conquest and colonialism, preserve culture.
3 Credits