Critical Perspectives of the Americas (VMS-0180)

Fall 2025 · VMS 0180 · Tufts University · 3 credits · Undergraduate

A cross disciplinary examination of the complex, rich visual culture that accommodated the competing, divergent and at times complementary narratives of the peoples in the Americas from the Mexica and Inka empires through the Colonial Period and early Twentieth Century within Modern Latin American Nations (1400-1920s). The art and architecture of Pre-Columbian, Colonial, and Modern Latin America seen through myth, cosmogony, sacrifice and religion, colonialism(s), social history, economics, ethnicity and race, identity, independence and birth of nation states, revolution, and modernity. An assessment of the scholarship on Latin American visual culture emphasizing competing opinions and no single interpretive perspective.

Course codes: VMS-0180, VMS 0180, VMS0180, VMS-180, VMS 180, VMS180

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