Art in Latin America: The Modern Era, 1820-1980

Discusses Latin American art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries up to 1980, detailing the indigenous, colonial, post-colonial, and political influences, based on an exhibition organized by the South Bank Centre in collaboration with the Swedish Art Museum and the Spanish Ministry of Culture and shown at The Hayward Gallery, London (18 May-6 August 1989), The Nationalmuseum and Moderna Museet, Stockholm (16 September-19 November 1989) and Palacio de Velázquez, Madrid (19 December 1989-31 March 1990). Contents Forward Acknowledgements Lenders to the Exhibition Introduction 1. Independence and its Heroes 2. Academies and History Painting 3.i Traveller-Reporter Artists and the Empirical Tradition in Post-Independence Latin America by Stanton Loomis Catlin 3ii. Nature, Science and the Picturesque 4. José María Velasco 5. Posada and the Popular Graphic Tradition 6. Modernism and the Search for Roots 7. The Mexican Mural Movement 8. The Taller de Gráfica Popular 9. Indigenism and Social Realism 10. Private Worlds and Public Myths 11. Arte Madí /Arte Concreto-Invención 12. A Radical Leap by Guy Brett 13. History and Identity Notes Manifestos Biographies by Rosemary O'Neill Select Bibliography Photographic Credits