I typically assign this reading for homework and have the students bring their responses, notes, and questions to class, this way they arrive prepared and ready to engage with the material at a deeper and more critical level:
Read
https://smarthistory.org/reframing-art-history/art-and-nationalism-in-19th-century-latin-america/
Answer these questions as you read:
- What were the most significant changes that came after independence?
- At art academies, how did artists depict their pre-Hispanic and colonial past?
- How did costumbrismo help articulate a sense of nationalism?
- How did transatlantic voyages introduce a sense of cosmopolitanism to art?
