Toward the preservation of a heritage
Subtitle: Latin American and Latino art in the midwestern United States
By: Olga U. Herrera ; with a foreword by Victor Sorell and Gilberto Cárdenas.
Contributors: Sorell, V. A.; Cardenas, Gilberto.; University of Notre Dame. Institute for Latino Studies.
Publisher: Institute for Latino Studies
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Notre Dame, IN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
Subjects: Art, Latin American -- Appreciation -- Middle West.; Hispanic American art -- Appreciation -- Middle West.; Hispanic American art -- Exhibitions.; Art, Latin American -- Exhibitions.
Other titles: Latin American and Latino art in the midwestern United States
Notes: "Research from the first year of the Midwest Latino Arts Documentary Heritage Project with a chronological overview, selected bibliography, and exhibition lists".

"This book ... is meant to provide a basic subject knowledge in this particular understudied and underdocumented element of Amercian art history. We hope such a chronology will serve young scholars as well as librarians and archivists as a springboard both for research and for new initiatives to collect and preserve primary source documents of this art"--Preface.

Includes lists of exhibitions held in the Midwest of Latin American art (1893-2007) and Latino art (1931-2007).  The lists can be searched and added to or modified through the project's interactive website.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-160).
Table of contents: title: Latin American art at US midwestern world expositions, 1893-1904; title: Immigration and settlement : establishing communities in the Midwest, 1900s-1910s onwards; title: The 1920s : mexicanidad and the Midwest; title: The 1930s : Mexican artists in the United States; title: The early 1940s : looking at the Western Hemisphere anew; title: The mid-1940s to early 1960s : artists joining academia and establishing first commercial galleries; title: The 1940s and 1960s : a new demographic shift, Puerto Rico and Cuba; title: The mid-1960s : the foundations of a Midwest Latino art; title: The late 1960s and early 1970s : the contemporary mural movement; title: The mid- to late 1970s : towards the creation of a Latino art infrastructure; title: The 1980s : new art organizations, new art spaces, blockbuster exhibitions, and multiculturalism; title: The 1990s : asserting a Pan-Latino identity; title: Globalization and the new millenium.