ENGL 4620

Building a Verbal-Visual Movement: Chicano/a & US Latino/a Art Stories

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.

This seminar focuses on Chicano/a and U.S. Latino/a art movements in the 1960s and 1970s. We will examine their different and interrelated social, political, and economic origins within a larger civil rights movement, as well as their aesthetic, literary, and cultural legacies in the twenty-first century. Theorizing that Chicano/a and U.S. Latino/a artists built a verbal-visual architecture for the civil rights platforms of the 1960s and 1970s, we will examine visual icons, verbal slogans, motifs, and sounds that created and fortified an exciting and complex lexicon, visual culture, and poetics of an American experience. Students will also learn about and engage archives and special collections at Cornell and other institutions that house extensive works from this prolific era of artistic and cultural production. Artists, poets, and authors include: José Montoya, Yolanda López, Pedro Pietri, Patssi Valdez, Asco, Miguel Piñero, Sandra María Esteves, Luis Valdez, Ester Hernández, Alfredo de Batuc, Carmen Tafolla, and others.

When Offered Fall.

Comments Co-meets with AMST 4301.

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