Companion to Modern and Contemporary Latin American and Latina/o Art

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.

• List of Illustrations ixAbout the Editors xiiiNotes on Contributors xivSeries Editor’s Preface xxIntroduction: Latin American and Latina/o Art xxiAlejandro Anreus, Robin Adèle Greeley, and Megan A. SullivanPart I 1910–1945: Cosmopolitanisms and Nationalisms 11 Art After the Mexican Revolution: Muralism, Prints, Photography 5Leonard Folgarait2 The Reinvention of the “Semana de Arte Moderna” 20Francisco Alambert3 Jose Carlos Mariategui and the Eternal Dawn of Revolution 37Martín Oyata4 National Values: The Havana Vanguard in the Revista de Avance and the Lyceum Gallery 52Ingrid W. Elliott5 Photography, Avant‐Garde, and Modernity 67Esther GabaraPart II 1945–1959: The Cold War and Internationalism 816 Wifredo Lam, Aime Cesaire, Eugenio Granell, Andre Breton: Agents of Surrealism in the Caribbean 85Lowery Stokes Sims7 The Oscillation Between Myth and Criticism: Octavio Paz Between Duchamp and Tamayo 101Cuauhtémoc Medina8 Latin American Abstraction (1934–1969) 117Juan Ledezma9 Architectural Modernism and Its Discontents: Brazil and Beyond 134Fabiola Lopez‐Durán10 The Realism‐Abstraction Debate in Latin America: Four Questions 151Megan A. Sullivan11 Sao Paulo and Other Models: The Biennial in Latin America, 1951–1991 165Isobel WhiteleggPart III 1959–1973: Revolution, Resistance, and the Politicization of Art 18112 Art and the Cuban Revolution 185Alejandro Anreus13 The Myths of Helio Oiticica 200Irene V. Small14 Between Chaos and the Furnaces: Argentine Conceptualism 217Daniel Quiles15 Chicana/o Art: 1965–1975 234Terezita Romo16 Cold War Intellectual Networks: Marta Traba in Circulation 249Florencia Bazzano17 Jose Gomez Sicre and the Inter‐American Exhibitions of the Pan American Union 264Claire F. Fox18 “… A Place for Us”: The Puerto Rican Alternative Art Space Movement in New York 281Yasmin RamírezPart IV 1973–1990: Dictatorship, Social Violence, and the Rise of Conceptual Strategies 29519 An “Other” Possible Revolution: The Cultural Guerrilla in Peru in 1970 299Emilio Tarazona and Miguel A. López20 Art in Chile After 1973 317Miguel Valderrama21 Cold War Conceptualism: Mexico’s Grupos Movement 330Robin Adèle Greeley22 Asco in Three Acts 349Robb Hernández23 A Real Existence: Conceptual Art, Conceptualism, and Art in Brazil and Beyond 368Sérgio B. MartinsPart V 1990–2010: Neoliberalism and Globalization 38124 Border Art 385Ila N. Sheren25 Walking with the Devil: Art, Culture, and Internationalization: An Interview with Gerardo Mosquera 398Alejandro Anreus26 Is This What Democracy Looks Like? Tania Bruguera and the Politics of Performance 410Stephanie Schwartz27 Shadows of the Doubtful Straight: Cuban-American Artists, 1970–2000 423Rocío Aranda‐Alvarado28 Notes on the Dominican Diaspora in the United States 437E. Carmen Ramos29 Antigonismos: Metaphoric Burial as Political Intervention in Contemporary Colombian Art 452Ana María Reyes30 Art, Memory, and Human Rights in Argentina 464Andrea GiuntaPart VI Approaches, Debates, and Methodologies 48731 Time and Place: Notes on the System of the Arts in Latin America 489Natalia Majluf32 Is There Such a Thing as Latina/o Art? 504Chon A. Noriega33 The Expansion of Culture: Drawbacks for Cities and Art 514Néstor García Canclini34 A Question: The Term “Indigenous Art” 520Ticio Escobar35 What Is “Latin American Art” Today? 527José Luis FalconiIndex 546

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