This course covers Pre-Hispanic art and design of the Andes, the Caribbean, and Mesoamerica. It begins with the Olmecs c. 2000 BCE and ends with the Spanish conquest of the Aztecs, 1519-1521. Although this terminates Mesoamerican art proper, the course also explores post-conquest Indo-Hispano art that was neither purely indigenous nor Colonial, but a syncretic hybrid formed and shaped by both New and Old World cultures. Regarding the Andes, the course begins with Chavin de Huantar c.1200 BCE and terminates with the Inca and their conquest by the Spanish in 1534. Also to be studied will be the art and culture of the Taino that inhabited areas of the Caribbean. The type of art and design the course will investigate both formally and in context includes architecture, painting, sculpture, textiles and costume, performance or ritual-based art, ceramics, lapidary arts, manuscripts, and featherwork. Pathways: Art and Design History