Latin American Art At the Museum of Modern Art - The Power of the Canon

This study sheds light on an as yet unstudied aspect of the Museum of Modern Art's (MoMA) preeminent role in establishing the definition of the problematic term "Latin American art" in the United States.

List of contents

Introduction: Museum Collection Displays and Canon-Formation; 1. "An evolutionary pedigree" -Modern Art in the 1930s-40s; 2. "National Representations and International Standards" The Latin-American Collection of the Museum of Modern Art (1943) and The First General Exhibition of the Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture (1945); 3. "Geographic Distributions": The Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, 1954-1955; 4. A "Missing Link": Elaine L. Johnson's Latin American Program and the 1967 Collection Exhibition; 5. Revising Modernism? The Place of Latin American Art in MoMA's Collection Galleries, 2004-2023

About the author

Miriam M. Basilio Gaztambide is Associate Professor of Art History and Museum Studies at New York University (NYU). She was co-curator of Tempo (MoMA QNS, 2002), MoMA at El Museo: Latin American and Caribbean Art from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art (2003), and Fighting Fascism: Visual Culture of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) (NYU Kimmel Windows, 2023). Her book Visual Propaganda, Exhibitions, and the Spanish Civil War (Routledge) was published in 2013.

Summary

This study sheds light on an as yet unstudied aspect of the Museum of Modern Art’s (MoMA) preeminent role in establishing the definition of the problematic term "Latin American art" in the United States.

Product details

• Authors: Miriam Basilio, Miriam (New York University Basilio, Miriam M. Basilio Gaztambide, Miriam (New York University M. Basilio Gaztambide
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 31.12.2019, delayed
• EAN: 9780415843669
• ISBN: 978-0-415-84366-9
• No. of pages: 212
• Series: Routledge Research in Museum Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), ART / Caribbean & Latin American, ART / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General, History of Art, Exhibition catalogues & specific collections, Museology and heritage studies, Art styles not defined by date, The Arts: art forms