Dream or Reality? Dismantling the fantastic

You are invited to view the individual lectures of the course "A brief history of art in Latin America in the XX century". 

If you are interested in the whole course and decide to purchase it after your class the price of this class will be discounted from the full price of the course. 

About this Lecture: 

There is a tendency to construct the narrative behind Latin American Art history from a Eurocentric perspective. Its artists, movements and aesthetic proposals have usually been analysed through this lens, that has framed most of their work according to European and North American parameters. Although most of them rejected their affiliation to certain movements such as surrealism or cubism, we still read their work today within these standards. This lecture will study the work of artists that have been frequently categorised within these movements, such as Remedios Varo, Leonor Fini and Wifredo Lam,…