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This course explores how Indigenous, Black, Creole, and Sephardic artists articulated their relationships to the environment in colonial Latin America and the Caribbean. Art reveals the evolving and dynamic affinities between identity and land. Although the focus will be on the period known as the Andean Baroque (1680-1780), we will also address earth-based artistic practices before European conquest and the thematization of landscape in the early nineteenth century. Particular attention to the circulation, collection, and display of visual artifacts will help students think about how the arts of Latin America and the Caribbean challenge “Western” narratives of art history. Students will engage with theories about materiality, identity, ethnicity, corporeality, and nature.