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

About the Author

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.