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UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC
OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
ART AND CULTURE
OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 2007
Professor: Luis Alfredo Agusti P.B.
lagusti@terra.com.pe
www.luisagusti.com
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PROGRAM

I. Description

The course called Art and Culture of Peru offers students a general, overall view of the diverse mediums of artistic expression found throughout Peruvian culture, from the pre-Hispanic to the present time.

II. Course Objectives

By the end of the Art and Culture of Peru course, each student will have studied and learned the conceptual framework necessary to understand, value, and enjoy the aesthetics of visual arts through direct contact with the heritage and general culture of Peru.

III. Course Objectives

a. To reasonably locate the diverse Peruvian mediums found in its visual arts and culture.

b. To distinguish artistic works based on their commitment to a conventional scheme of artistic thoughts or trends.

c. To value the artistic production in agreement with the recognition of basic aesthetic norms.

d. To articulate a critical speech, both oral and written.

IV. Course Topics

Topic I: Introduction. Art and Culture from the Prehispanic and Colonial Era.
Session 1 (1h): Introduction to the history of Peru.
Session 2 (2h): Pre-Hispanic art and culture: ceramics, textiles, architecture, and gold/silver use
Session 3 (2h): Colonial art and culture: painting, sculpture, and architecture
Session 4 (4h): Visit to the National Museum of Archaeology, Anthropology, and History of Peru

Topic II: Visual arts of the Republican era (XIX and XX centuries)
Session 5 (2h): Customs, travelers, academics, and the indigenous
Session 6 (2h): Independent and figurative expressions
Session 7 (2h): Abstraction I: Fernando de Szyszlo and Julia Navarrete
Session 8 (2h): Abstraction II: Ramiro Llona y Ricardo Wiesse
Session 9 (2h): José Tola
Session 10 (4h): Visit to the MALI (Museum of Art Lima)
Session 11 (2h): Sculpture
Session 12 (2h): Photography

Topic III: Popular Art
Session 13 (2h): Imagery, altarpieces (retablos), tables of Sarhua
Session 14 (2h): Silversmith, wood making, weaving

Topic IV: Dress, Dance, and Music
Session 15 (2h): The interior of the country
Session 16 (2h): Lima and “el criollismo” or New World culture

Topic V: Gastronomy
Session 17 (2h): Gastronomy of the cost, highlands and jungle. Pisco �" type of
Peruvian brandy made from grapes.

Topic VI: The Peruvian Paso Horse
Session 18 (2h): The Peruvian Paso horse: Genetics, anatomy, breeding, and competitions

Topic VII: Contemporary Peruvian Literature
Session 19 (2h): Narrative
Session 20 (2h): Poetry
Session 21 (2h): Final Exam (based on written essay and oral presentation)

V. Learning Activities

a. Analysis of iconographic and contextual visual art mediums, through oral and written participation.

b. Group discussion of aesthetic problems posed by analyzed works.

c. Written composition, to be developed during the course of the program, on the topic of choice (length: approximately 2000 words).

VI. Instructional Method

The professor will present to the students slides of works of art, and he will analyze the various representative stages and artistic languages. This type of teaching will encourage discussion, first learning how to detect specific criteria and then making their own reasonable debates.

In addition to work in the classroom, students will also participate in three field trips. These excursions will provide students with real life experiences as they are guided by the professor through a Peruvian artist´s workshop, a Peruvian art gallery and the Lima Museum of Art. The students will have a unique opportunity to participate in open dialogue with the artists themselves.

The course will be taught in Spanish: however, the professor will provide assistance in English when necessary.

VII. Evaluation

Students will be graded on their class participation as well as one final project. The final project will consist of a 2000 word essay as well as an oral presentation. Students may choose any of the course topics. The presentation and essay should reflect to the professor the students ability to analyze and criticize the works of art and culture learned in the classroom and demonstrate their knowledge of the topic of their choice, principally based on the course objectives outlined in Section III.

The final grade will be based on the following distribution:

• Class Participation: 20%
• Essay and Oral Presentation: 80%

VIII. Bibliography

1. Balbi, Mariella, Szyszlo: travesía, Lima: UPC, 2001.

2. Castrillón, Alfonso, Museo peruano: utopía y realidad, Lima: 1986.

3. Cornejo, Pedro, Alta tensión. Los cortocircuitos del rock peruano, Lima: Emedece ediciones, 2002.

4. Lauer, Mirko, Introducción a la pintura peruana del siglo XX, Lima: Mosca Azul, 1976.

5. Lavalle, José Antonio de y Werner Lang (eds.), Arte precolombino, Lima: Banco de Crédito del Perú, 1981.

6. Llona, Ramiro, Retrospectiva 1973-1998, Lima: Museo de Arte de Lima, 1998.

7. Majluf, Natalia (ed.), La recuperación de la memoria. El primer siglo de la fotografía: Perú: 1842-1942, Lima: Museo de Arte de Lima, 2001.

8. Mujica, Marisa, Perú: 10 000 años de pintura, Lima: Universidad de San Martín de Porres, 2006.

9. Museo de Arte de Lima, El arte en el Perú: obras en la colección del MALI, Lima: MALI, 2001.

10. Tola, José, Los paraísos del infierno, México: Premia, 1987.

11. Tola, José, Desde la violencia y la forma, México: Premia, 1991.

12. Wiesse, Ricardo, Wiesse: pinturas y otros ensayos, Lima: Ediciones Sociedad Agrícola Chanca, 2005.

13. Villacorta, Jorge y Max Hernández, Franquicias imaginarias. Las opciones estéticas en las artes plásticas en el Perú de fin de siglo. Lima: PUCP, 2002.