Revolution - Art & Politics in Latin America (HAA 0520) - Oakland Campus

Installations and Site-Specific Art in the 1980s–90s

“One of the smartest commentaries yet on still-rampant cultural and historical myopia.”
- The Los Angeles Time

Ixcanul

Trailer for Ixcanul (Guatemala, 2015)

The Cuban Revolution, 1959

Che Guevara & Fidel Castro

"The Cuban revolution headed by Fidel Castro (b. 1926) began on January 1, 1959, after Cuban military dictator Fulgencio Batista (1901–1973) fled the country. Since that time Cuba has been headed by a nationalist, revolutionary government. The prime mover of the revolutionary process has been Fidel Castro himself, although his brother Raúl Castro took over in August 2006 when the 80-year-old president underwent major abdominal surgery."

Gale Virtual Reference Library: The Cuban Revolution

Performing Identities in the 1980s

"Nahum B. Zenil: Witness to Self" by Edward J. Sullivan
"Mexican artist Nahum B. Zenil has said: “I have always felt the need for self-analysis in my work in order to accept myself and the way I live. I have always felt marginalized in my life and have experienced a great sense of solitude. In my art I’ve tried to effect a communication between the members of society and myself.” This statement contains the essential kernel of meaning in his highly complex and invariably self-referential art."
Marta Maria Perez Bravo (Havana, 1959) - Without Masks
"Marta María was also a pioneer in the use of her own body within Cuban contemporary photography. Perhaps it was a chance discovery or self-discovery of her body during her pregnancy (1986), since many of her first works were related with the mysteries of motherhood, like the series To Conceive (1986.)"

Nahum B. Zenil: Witness to the Self by Edward J. Sullivan; Clayton C. Kirking

From Dictatorship to Democracy in Chile

The 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, Mexico

Mexico Olympics Massacre Fueled Renaissance in Socially Conscious Art
Interview with Edward J. McCaughan, author of Art and Social Movements: Cultural Politics in Mexico and Aztlán (Duke University Press, 2012).
Radiant Discord: Lance Wyman on the ’68 Olympic Design and the Tlatelolco Massacre
Interview with Lance Wyman, who helped create the '68 Olympics signage, about "Olympics identity: how it came to be, the cultural signifiers it contains, the ways political events surrounding the Games impacted its reading, and his feelings about the identity system nearly five decades later."

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Art & Politics in Latin America (HAA 0520) - Oakland Campus