SPN 364 A Literary Journey Through Contemporary Latin American Cultures: Home

John Vanderlyn's The Landing of Columbus, 1847

"Artist Titus Kaphar ( is an American contemporary painter and MacArthur fellow from Kalamazoo, Michigan, whose work reconfigures and regenerates art history to include the African-American subject) says that his 2014 Columbus Day Painting was inspired by his young son’s conflicted and confusing study of the putative discoverer of America." 

-Dr. Robert B. Feldman
 

“If we don’t amend history by making new images and new representations, we are always going to be excluding ourselves.”

TITUS KAPHAR

Diego Rivera's The Arrival of Cortes