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Informationen zum Autor Alejandro Anreus, PhD, is Professor of Art History and Latin American Latina/o Studies at William Paterson University, New Jersey, USA. Robin Adèle Greeley, PhD, is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Connecticut, Connecticut, USA. Megan A. Sullivan, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago, Illinois, USA. Klappentext In-depth scholarship on the central artists, movements, and themes of Latin American art, from the Mexican revolution to the presentA Companion to Modern and Contemporary Latin American and Latinx Art consists of over 30 never-before-published essays on the crucial historical and theoretical issues that have framed our understanding of art in Latin America. This book has a uniquely inclusive focus that includes both Spanish-speaking Caribbean and contemporary Latinx art in the United States. Influential critics of the 20th century are also covered, with an emphasis on their effect on the development of artistic movements.By providing in-depth explorations of central artists and issues, alongside cross-references to illustrations in major textbooks, this volume provides an excellent complement to wider surveys of Latin American and Latinx art. Readers will engage with the latest scholarship on each of five distinct historical periods, plus broader theoretical and historical trends that continue to influence how we understand Latinx, Indigenous, and Latin American art today. The book's areas of focus include:* The development of avant-garde art in the urban centers of Latin America from 1910-1945* The rise of abstraction during the Cold War and the internationalization of Latin American art from 1945-1959* The influence of the political upheavals of the 1960s on art and art theory in Latin America* The rise of conceptual art as a response to dictatorship and social violence in the 1970s and 1980s* The contemporary era of neoliberalism and globalization in Latin American and Latino Art, 1990-2010With its comprehensive approach and informative structure, A Companion to Modern and Contemporary Latin American and Latinx Art is an excellent resource for advanced students in Latin American culture and art. It is also a valuable reference for aspiring scholars in the field. Zusammenfassung In-depth scholarship on the central artists! movements! and themes of Latin American art! from the Mexican revolution to the presentA Companion to Modern and Contemporary Latin American and Latinx Art consists of over 30 never-before-published essays on the crucial historical and theoretical issues that have framed our understanding of art in Latin America. This book has a uniquely inclusive focus that includes both Spanish-speaking Caribbean and contemporary Latinx art in the United States. Influential critics of the 20th century are also covered! with an emphasis on their effect on the development of artistic movements.By providing in-depth explorations of central artists and issues! alongside cross-references to illustrations in major textbooks! this volume provides an excellent complement to wider surveys of Latin American and Latinx art. Readers will engage with the latest scholarship on each of five distinct historical periods! plus broader theoretical and historical trends that continue to influence how we understand Latinx! Indigenous! and Latin American art today. The book's areas of focus include:* The development of avant-garde art in the urban centers of Latin America from 1910-1945* The rise of abstraction during the Cold War and the internationalization of Latin American art from 1945-1959* The influence of the political upheavals of the 1960s on art and art theory in Latin America* The rise of conceptual art as a response to dictatorship and social violence in the 1970s and 1980s* The contemporary era of neoliberalism and globalization in Latin American and Latino Art!...
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List of Illustrations ix
About the Editors xiii
Notes on Contributors xiv
Series Editor's Preface xx
Introduction: Latin American and Latina/o Art xxi
Alejandro Anreus, Robin Adèle Greeley, and Megan A. Sullivan
Part I 1910-1945: Cosmopolitanisms and Nationalisms 1
1 Art After the Mexican Revolution: Muralism, Prints, Photography 5
Leonard Folgarait
2 The Reinvention of the "Semana de Arte Moderna" 20
Francisco Alambert
3 Jose Carlos Mariategui and the Eternal Dawn of Revolution 37
Martín Oyata
4 National Values: The Havana Vanguard in the Revista de Avance and the Lyceum Gallery 52
Ingrid W. Elliott
5 Photography, Avant-Garde, and Modernity 67
Esther Gabara
Part II 1945-1959: The Cold War and Internationalism 81
6 Wifredo Lam, Aime Cesaire, Eugenio Granell, Andre Breton: Agents of Surrealism in the Caribbean 85
Lowery Stokes Sims
7 The Oscillation Between Myth and Criticism: Octavio Paz Between Duchamp and Tamayo 101
Cuauhtémoc Medina
8 Latin American Abstraction (1934-1969) 117
Juan Ledezma
9 Architectural Modernism and Its Discontents: Brazil and Beyond 134
Fabiola Lopez-Durán
10 The Realism-Abstraction Debate in Latin America: Four Questions 151
Megan A. Sullivan
11 Sao Paulo and Other Models: The Biennial in Latin America, 1951-1991 165
Isobel Whitelegg
Part III 1959-1973: Revolution, Resistance, and the Politicization of Art 181
12 Art and the Cuban Revolution 185
Alejandro Anreus
13 The Myths of Helio Oiticica 200
Irene V. Small
14 Between Chaos and the Furnaces: Argentine Conceptualism 217
Daniel Quiles
15 Chicana/o Art: 1965-1975 234
Terezita Romo
16 Cold War Intellectual Networks: Marta Traba in Circulation 249
Florencia Bazzano
17 Jose Gomez Sicre and the Inter-American Exhibitions of the Pan American Union 264
Claire F. Fox
18 "... A Place for Us": The Puerto Rican Alternative Art Space Movement in New York 281
Yasmin Ramírez
Part IV 1973-1990: Dictatorship, Social Violence, and the Rise of Conceptual Strategies 295
19 An "Other" Possible Revolution: The Cultural Guerrilla in Peru in 1970 299
Emilio Tarazona and Miguel A. López
20 Art in Chile After 1973 317
Miguel Valderrama
21 Cold War Conceptualism: Mexico's Grupos Movement 330
Robin Adèle Greeley
22 Asco in Three Acts 349
Robb Hernández
23 A Real Existence: Conceptual Art, Conceptualism, and Art in Brazil and Beyond 368
Sérgio B. Martins
Part V 1990-2010: Neoliberalism and Globalization 381
24 Border Art 385
Ila N. Sheren
25 Walking with the Devil: Art, Culture, and Internationalization: An Interview with Gerardo Mosquera 398
Alejandro Anreus
26 Is This What Democracy Looks Like? Tania Bruguera and the Politics of Performance 410
Stephanie Schwartz
27 Shadows of the Doubtful Straight: Cuban-American Artists, 1970-2000 423
Rocío Aranda-Alvarado
28 Notes on the Dominican Diaspora in the United States 437
E. Carmen Ramos
29 Antigonismos: Metaphoric Burial as Political Intervention in Contemporary Colombian Art 452
Ana María Reyes
30 Art, Memory, and Human Rights in Argentina 464
Andrea Giunta
Part VI Approaches, Debates, and Methodologies 487
31 Time and Place: Notes on the System of the Arts in Latin America 489
Natalia Majluf
32 Is There Such a Thing as Latina/o Art? 504
Chon A. Noriega
33 The Expansion of Culture: Drawbacks for Cities and Art 514
Néstor García Canclini
34 A Question: The Term "Indige
