Title: Drawing the line : art and cultural identity in contemporary Latin America /
Authors: Baddeley, Oriana, 1954-; Fraser, Valerie.
Publisher: Verso in association with the Latin America Bureau,
Year: 1989
Subjects: Art, Latin American; Art and society Latin America.
Abstract: An exploration of the areas occupied by Latin American art and culture between the ongoing traditions of its indigenous inhabitants, its colonial heritage and its contemporary relationship to the cultural politics of North America and Europe. It looks at the way cultural identity has been constructed by artists from the 1940s to the present day and challenges the way art criticism has hitherto dealt with Latin American art.
Contents: Mapping landscapes -- Confronting a colonial past -- The politics of Latin American art -- The surrealist continent -- Forms of authenticity.