num_pages: 384
description: 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).ContentsForwardAcknowledgementsLenders to the ExhibitionIntroduction1. Independence and its Heroes2. Academies and History Painting3.i Traveller-Reporter Artists and the Empirical Tradition in Post-Independence Latin America by Stanton Loomis Catlin3ii. Nature, Science and the Picturesque4. José María Velasco5. Posada and the Popular Graphic Tradition6. Modernism and the Search for Roots7. The Mexican Mural Movement8. The Taller de Gráfica Popular9. Indigenism and Social Realism10. Private Worlds and Public Myths11. Arte Madí /Arte Concreto-Invención12. A Radical Leap by Guy Brett13. History and IdentityNotesManifestosBiographies by Rosemary O'NeillSelect BibliographyPhotographic Credits
language: English
title: Art in Latin America: The Modern Era, 1820-1980
titlecomplete: Art in Latin America: The Modern Era, 1820-1980
genres: Art History, Art
ratings_count: 47
publisher: Yale Univ Press