This course examines the breakthrough movements that have transgressed traditional boundaries in Latin American art and culture in the 20th and 21st centuries, focusing on literary and poetic breakthroughs and their relationships to the visual arts, especially abstraction, conceptualism, and political activism in contemporary Latin American cultural production. Students develop the ability to analyze cultural behaviors and attitudes across different regions and time periods, reflect on the role of the United States in the international art world, and gain a greater understanding of the relationships between contemporary culture in Latin America and throughout the globe.