CULTURE AND THE ARTS
LATI 50Introduction to Latin America
ISSUES AND THEMES• Freedom vs. censorship
– self-censorship
– Exile
– political content?
• Financial support– dangers of cooptation
– state vs. private sources
– alternative lines of work
• Scope of audience– dependent on media
– national and/or international?
• Themes: identity or universality?
MEXICO: ART FOR THE MASSES
• The Muralists:– Diego Rivera (1886-1957)
– David Siqueiros (1896-1974)
– José Clemente Orozco (1883-1949)
– and Frida Kahlo (1907-1954)
The Writers:
– Mariano Azuela (1873-1952), Los de Abajo
– Carlos Fuentes (b. 1928), Death of Artemio Cruz
IT’S ENTERTAINMENT! TELEVISION
• 80-95 % now have access to TV
• Telenovelas popular throughout Latin America and world (e.g., “La esclava”)
• Major TV networks:– Globo (Brazil)
– Televisa (Mexico)
THE USES OF FILM
• La historia oficial (Argentina, 1985)
• Y tu mamá también (Mexico, 2001)
• Cidade de Deus (Brazil, 2002)
• María llena eres de gracia (Colombia-USA, 2004)