Discuss the presence of national and individual politics in the works of Frida Kahlo. Your response must include detailed analyses of AT LEAST THREE artworks.
The essay should be accompanied by images of the
works or practices you refer to or discuss in your answers. Feel free to choose whichever sources you want.
More about the class: it is called ‘Key Terms & Points of View in Latin American Visual Arts’ and consists of a close study of cultural issues through visual information presented in selected artistic practices such as movements, trends and, in particular, key critical concepts and works by specific artists. All these will be analysed in their interrelation within the cultural history of Modern Latin America (late 19th to early 21st Centuries).
The class is designed: (a) to build conceptual bridges between current debates surrounding the study of the visual arts and those within the study of literature and other cultural forms; (b) to explore the application of recent and revised critical tools to the visual work of well-known and also little-known artists; and (c) to contrast critically the characteristics of specific works of art with others belonging to related artistic tendencies in order to challenge standardised practices of definition.
All assessed coursework should be submitted using the MHRA form of referencing -> http://www.mhra.org.uk/style
