ARTHI 6I: EARLY IBERIAN ART

University of California, Santa Barbara

This survey course offers an overview of the varied artistic cultures devel oped under the Spanish Empire during the sixteenth and seventeenth centurie s, covering, besides the Iberian Peninsula, different parts of Europe and N orth and West Africa, the Spanish Americas, and a number of transpacific te rritories. In addition to exposing students to an astoundingly rich set of materials, it introduces them to key theoretical themes, such as Indigenous agency, borderlands and frontier territories, religious intolerance and co ercion, cross-cultural exchange, resistance, racialization, and revisions o f the center/periphery and hybridity/mestizaje models.