Table of Contents
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 “Indigenous Art” 520 Ticio Escobar
35 What Is “Latin American Art” Today? 527 José Luis Falconi
Index 546