This course is a comprehensive survey of the art of the Americas from the pre-contact (with the European colonialists) to the colonial period up to the present. Diverse and focused readings will guide the students through the culture, art, design, and architecture of early Mesoamerican, Andean, and North American civilizations like Olmec and Paracas to later empires like Aztec and Inca in the 14th and 15th centuries to the hybrid culture that emerged during the colonial period to a brief consideration of the modern and contemporary periods. While European (as well as African and Asian) influences on these arts and culture of the Americas will a constitutive aspect of this course, the primary emphasis will be on indigenous art and design practices. The structure of the course will be a combination of regional and chronological approaches. There will be an attempt to include as many of indigenous views in the reading and viewing assignments as possible. HAAVC 2000 courses develop students' visual analysis skills while providing the opportunity for in-depth study of the visual/structural artifacts associated with a particular topic, region, or movement. Students will also engage with the relevant primary/secondary literature for the topic at hand. Courses will pay particular attention to the larger cultural, historical, and theoretical/ideological contexts in which the visual artifacts and structures under consideration were created.

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