Prerequisite: SPAN331, SPAN332, SPAN333, SPAN361, SPAN362, or SPAN363.

Mexico's Revolution of 1910 presented writers, artists, filmmakers, and architects with singular opportunities to reimagine the nation, cultural traditions, and the meaning of their own work. The decades following the Revolution were characterized by phenomena such as state support of the arts, sociopolitical ruptures and continuities, a greater emphasis on collaboration, socially oriented cultural production, and Mexico s role in international politics. This course presents students with ways of exploring the connections between art and politics from the 1920s to the 1950s. Topics include muralism, printmaking, avant-garde poetry, narrative fiction, a burgeoning film industry, and modernist architecture.