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One of the project’s purposes is collaborating with Brazilian universities through shared courses. During 2022 we will offer seminars in selected Graduate programs within the partner institutions. The three courses – on African and diasporic art, Japanese art and Pre-Colombian/Indigenous art – aim to discuss artistic and cultural traditions that contribute to Brazilian Art and visualities, both in their more general aspects and the dynamics of their interactions with local contexts.
From a wide perspective, this seminar focuses on the visual and material cultures of Amerindian peoples of Mesoamerica and Brazil, exploring various conceptual and geographic centers of artistic production. The goal of this seminar is to establish a dialogue, through historiographical production, between the Amerindian arts of Mesoamerica and Brazil in order to highlight not only possible thematic relationships among the material culture of the two regions, but also a theoretical-methodological approach with emphasis on interdisciplinarity between History of Art, Archaeology, History and Anthropology. Among the topics to be addressed are issues related to perspectivism, writing, iconography, agency, the social life of things and reception of Amerindian arts.
This course aims to provide an introduction to Japanese art from the perspective of its contact points with the West. Centered on case studies historically set in the period since the official opening of Japanese trade ports in 1854, the course delves into the history of objects, techniques, and media that helped to establish an image of Japan outside its geographical borders. The course is structured along three axes: the transit of aethetics and sensibilities; the circulation of objects; the migration and movement of populations. During the semester, we will examine themes such as Japonisme and Euro- American modernisms; global orientalism and cultural appropriation; the formation of major Japanese art collections outside of Japan; and the art of migrant communities, with special attention to Japanese Brazilian contexts. Bibliography will be mainly in Portuguese, with supplementary readings in English and Spanish.
This course, conceived in dialogue with Prof. Z.S. Strother (Columbia University), presents an introduction to artistic expressions produced on the African continent, from the 1960s to the present. From artworks to exhibition practices, it focuses on a series of case studies that illuminate historical and political contexts in which the works were produced.
While addressing the opportunities and challenges for studying and researching contemporary African art in the Brazilian (and Latin American) context, the course takes as its guiding principle the assumption that the field offers significant theoretical perspectives to the debates on crucial themes in the history of art, today — beyond a purely geographical framework. Hence, throughout the classes, we will explore issues such as temporalities (modern/contemporary), cartographies of artistic production (local/global), identities (diasporic belonging/nationalisms/gender/race) and the politics of memory (archives/history/photography).
Pre-Colombian Art
Japanese Art
African Art
UFRB/UNILA/TUFTS
UFPA/UNILA/TUFTS
Unicamp/UFPA/TUFTS
Unicamp/UFPA/TUFTS
Unicamp/UFRB/TUFTS
UFRB/UNILA/TUFTS
Enrollment must be done regularly through each university’s method.