Readings in Latin American Modern Art

This important and welcome volume is the first English-language anthology of writings on Latin American modern art of the twentieth century. The book includes some fifty seminal essays and documents - including statements, interviews, and manifestoes by artists - that encompass the broad diversity of this emerging field. Many of these materials are difficult to access and some are translated here for the first time. Together the selections explore the breadth and depth of Latin American modern art as well as its distinctive evolution apart from American and European art history. Included in this collection are fascinating ideas and insights on the impact of the avant-garde in the 1920s, the Mexican mural movement, Surrealism and other fantasy-based styles, modern architecture, geometric and optical art, concrete and neo-concrete art, and political conceptualism. For students and scholars of Latin American art, the volume offers an invaluable collection of primary and secondary sources.

ISBN 0300102550   Pages 288 ISBN13 9780300102550 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Yale University Press   Weight (grammes) 410 Imprint Yale University Press   Published in New Haven Format Paperback   Height (mm) 240 Publication date 21 May 2004   Width (mm) 156 Library of Congress N6502.5 \., N6502.5.R4, N6502.5   Spine width (mm) 19 DEWEY 709.80904   Academic level General, Professional / Scholarly, Tertiary education DEWEY edition DC22

		Saturnino Herran : "Our Gods" mural project by Jacinto Quirarte		3
		Dr. Atl by MacKinley Helm		5
		Untitled statements by Armando Reveron		10
		Manifesto of Martin Fierro		12
		Don Pedro Figari by Ricardo Guiraldes		14
		Regional autonomy by Pedro Figari		17
		Emilio Pettoruti by Xul Solar		19
		The situation of the modern artist by Emilio Pettoruti		22
		Anthropophagite Manifesto by Oswald de Andrade		24
		Manifesto of the Grupo Minorista : Havana, 7 May 1927		28
		Manifesto of the Union of Mexican Workers, Technicians, Painters, and Sculptors		33
		Rockefellers ban Lenin in RCA mural and dismiss Rivera		36
		Diego Rivera's mural in the Palace of Fine Arts by Rafael Angel Herrerias		43
		Orozco "explains" by Jose Clemente Orozco		48
		Francisco Goitia : Tata Jesucristo by Hayden Herrera		51
		Los Tres Jircas (The three peaks) by Enrique Lopez Albujar		54
		Latin America faces the Quincentenary : an interview with Oswaldo Guayasamin by Fred Murphy		61
		Haitian art... how it started by DeWitt Peters		67
		A visit with Hector Hyppolite by Selden Rodman		73
		A world created by magic : excerpts from a conversation with Andre Pierre by Consentino, Donald		76
		Frida Kahlo's bus accident by Martha Zamora		79
		Leonora Carrington by Marie-Pierre Colle		81
		Two theories of contemporary Mexican painting by Marta Traba		89
		Syncretism and syntax in the art of Wifredo Lam by Lowery S. Sims		91
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