Latin American artists of the twentieth century /
Latin American artists of the 20th century
edited by Waldo Rasmussen with Fatima Bercht and Elizabeth Ferrer.
- 424 pages : colour illustrations ; 29 cm
"Published on the occasion of the exhibition Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century ... the Museum of Modern Art, New York, June 6-September 7, 1993"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 399-412) and index.
Foreword / Richard E. Oldenburg -- Introduction to an exhibition / Waldo Rasmussen -- Notes on the birth of modernity in Latin American art / Edward J. Sullivan -- Armando Reverón / Rina Carvajal -- Xul Solar : world-maker / Daniel E. Nelson -- Tarsila de Amaral / Fatima Bercht -- Orozco and Rivera : Mexican fresco painting and the paradoxes of nationalism / Max Kozloff -- Joaquín Torres-García and the tradition of constructive art / Florencia Bazzano Nelson -- Abstract constructivist trends in Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, and Colombia / Aracy Amaral -- Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica / Guy Brett -- Surrealism and Latin America / Dore Ashton -- María Izquierdo / Elizabeth Ferrer -- New figuration, pop, and assemblage in the 1960s and 1970s / Jacqueline Barnitz -- The theme of crisis in contemporary Latin American art / Paulo Herkenhoff -- Displacement and the reinvention of identity / Charles Merewether -- Blueprint circuits : conceptual art and politics in Latin America / Mari Carmen Ramírez.
Account of the rise of modernism in the art of Latin America, published to accompany the exhibition Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.