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Zusatztext "This important compendium surveys and explores in rich detail the history and role of museums as arbiters and advocates for art from the region and in distinct Latin American contexts. It is a must read for scholars, professionals and students of Latin America and its art and cultural politics."- Adriana Zavala, Tufts University"Art Museums of Latin America is, without a doubt, a compilation that opens a panorama of study that will allowus to not only learn more about the local processes but also, as the editors posit, to reformulate the role of the regional institution in the context of global museum studies."- Caiana"...the majority of the chapters feed this argument, showing that museums are not the result of policies from above but of the initiative of collectives, groups, or individuals who must seek the resources and respond to the interests of politics so that their ideas end up succeeding."- Latin American & Latinx Visual Culture"Art Museums of Latin America advances the study of the history of art and museology in Latin America, extends the geopolitical limits in order to question precepts, increases the knowledge of these themes in English-speaking countries, and proposes a structure of closer alliances between the Americas."- Artelogie Informationen zum Autor Michele Greet is associate professor of modern Latin American and European art and director of the art history program at George Mason University . Gina McDaniel Tarver is associate professor of modern and contemporary art history, with a focus on Latin America, at Texas State University. Zusammenfassung By means of their architecture, collections, exhibitions, and curatorial practices, Latin American art museums have crafted representations of communities, including nation-states, and promoted particular group ideologies. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I Art Museums and State Politics1 From Universalist to National Art: The Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes! Buenos Aires Maria Isabel Baldasarre2 Mexico's Museo de Artes Plásticas: The Divergent Discourses of 1934 and 1947Ana Garduño3 History and Metamorphosis: Cuba's Museo Nacional de Bellas ArtesIngrid W. Elliott4 Incendiary Objects: An Episodic History of the Museu de Arte Moderna! Rio de JaneiroAleca Le BlancPart II Art Museums as Constructions of Modernity5 Pedrosa and Malraux: Impossible Meetings in the "Museum of Copies"Natália Quinderé6 A Museum without a Venue: The Invention of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá! 1955-1963Nadia Moreno Moya7 The Architecture of Mexico's Museo de Arte Moderno: A Stimulus to Museological RenewalGeorgina CebeyPart IIILocal Dynamics of Internationalism8 The São Paulo Biennial Complex: MAM-BSP-MACIsobel Whitelegg9 Local Processes and Transnational Circuits: The Inter-American Project and the Birth of Modern Art Museums in Barranquilla and Cartagena Isabel Cristina Ramírez Botero10 An Uneasy Alliance: The Early Years of the Museo TamayoJames Oles11 Colección Jumex and Mexico's Art Scene: The Intersection of Public and PrivateLassla Esquivel DurandPart IVNational and Regional Perspectives from the United States12 Latin American Art at The University of Texas at Austin: The University Art MuseumFlorencia Bazzano13 Somehow Exceptional: El Museo del Barrio! New YorkDeborah Cullen14 Museum as Battleground: Exile and Contested Cultural Representation in Miami's Cuban MuseumElizabeth CerejidoPart VReimagining the Art Museum15 Revolutionary Modernism: A "Museo de Arte Moderno Americano" Rehearsed in Print in Mexico City! 1926-1928Harper Montgomery16 The Museum in Times of Revolution: Regarding Nemesio Antúnez's Transformation Program for Santiago's Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes! 1969-1973Amalia Cross17 Critical Deviations in Latin American Museums: The Experiences of the Museo del Barro in Asunción! Paraguay and the Micromuseo in Lima! PeruCarla Pinochet Cob...
