ARTH 161 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Enrique Chagoya, Frida Kahlo, Mexican Hairless Dog
Document Summary
Contemporary and modern art: border crossing, 1991. Steel construction: two undiscovered amerindians from the island of guatinaui. Site-specific performance piece: self-portrait on the border between mexico and the united states, 1932. Oil on metal: hand of power, 1993. Pre-classic or formative period 1500-300 bce: olmec (mexico: veracruz, tabasco) c. 1200 bce-300 ce, monument 61, colossal head no. 8. Andesite: great pyramid (mound c), la venta, c. 800 bce -300 ce, las limas monument i, c. 900-600 bce. Greenstone: west mexico: jalisco, nayarit, and colima (grave goods from shaft or pit tombs, seated marriage pair, jalisco. Earthenware: dream visions at the edge of darkness, 1975. Terms & names: teuchitl n, xolo (xoloitzcuintli), mictlan (god of death), quetzalcoatl (god of creation), xipe (god of spring), xiuhcoatl (god of fire/destruction), quetzal, peyote, orthogonality, jaguar. Lecture 3 (also see the mystery of the maya video worksheet . Classic period 300 bce- 1100 ce: teotihuacan c. 100-750 ce, pyramids of the sun and moon, ca.