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SMU-IN-TAOS: ART HISTORY 3377
SMU-IN-TAOS: CULTURAL FORMATIONS 3375
Art and Architecture of Hispanic New MexicoThis course examines the artistic and cultural legacies of colonial New Mexico: Spanish city planning and church design; retablos, santos and their place in religious experience; art in the secular life of towns and haciendas of colonial and post-colonial New Mexico. The course will emphasize field trips to galleries, collections, and historical sites of Northern New Mexico.
The term will encompass ten class-days of about six hours each. Class time will consist of discussions, with frequent field trips to nearby Pueblos, historic sites, museums, and other cultural institutions. Students will keep daily journals, class notes, and in-class essay assignments in a single notebook, to be handed in at the end of the course; at the end of each of four mini-units, students will submit a four to five-page essay.
This course uses works of art and architecture as points of entry into wider fields of inquiry. Accordingly, the course places the art and architecture of New Mexico at the nexus of several academic disciplines. Primary source material encountered in the class will range from ancient painted retablos, to roadside crosses wreathed in bright streamers and plastic flowers, to the dulcified commercial hectoring of faux adobe convenience stores and strip-malls. The reading list includes the work of historians, anthropologists, philosophers, architects, non-academic cultural critics, and several generations of art historians. The course then exposes students to a succession of sharply distinct disciplinary perspectives and academic voices, all of which converge on the problematic of culture in Northern New Mexico. Students will be challenged to understand New Mexico as a unity of interwoven historical and cultural legacies, synthesizing their first-hand experience and intellectual sources to fashion their own interpretation of the art and culture of New Mexico.
NOTE: CF courses taken during reduced Taos
summer semesters require completion of course assignments prior to arrival. Faculty
members will email students with assignments prior to the beginning of
the semester. This course fulfills the General Education co-requirement in
Human Diversity.
3 credit hours
Instructor: Adam Herring
Tuition: $ 2,025
Fees: $125
Room/Board: $1,241