The Americas revealed
Subtitle: collecting colonial and modern Latin American art in the United States
By: edited by Edward J. Sullivan
Series: The Frick Collection studies in the history of art collecting in America -- fourth volume; Studies in the history of art collecting in America -- 4.
Publisher: The Frick Collection; The Pennsylvania State University Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 201
ISBN-13: 9780271079523
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Latin American Art; Collectors and collecting; History
Description: "Explores the formation of public and private collections of Spanish Colonial and modern Latin American art throughout the United States, and the impact of the ever-changing political landscape of Latin American countries"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: "This book evolved from a symposium organized by the Center for the History of Collecting that was held at The Frick Collection on May 16 and 17, 2014."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acquisitive passions : observations on collecting the art of the Americas in the United States / Edward J. Sullivan; title: Evolving taxonomies at the Museum of Modern Art in the 1930s and 40s and the definitions of the "Latin American collection" / Miriam Margarita Basilio; title: Hot styles and Cold War : collecting practices at the Museum of Modern Art and other museums in the sixties / Delia Solomons; title: The Philadelphia story / Joseph Rishel; title: Cargadores : collecting Rivera, Mexican modernism, and bearing the burdens of historiography / Anna Indych-López; title: An American museum : representing the arts of Mexico at the Metropolitan Museum of Art / Ronda Kasl; title: Building a model of diversity : Grace McCann Morley and collecting modern Latin American art in San Francisco / Berit Potter; title: Inverted strategies : an exhibition as matrix for a permanent collection / Mari Carmen Ramírez; title: Beyond Mexico : the evolution of Phoenix Art Museum's Latin American collection / Vaness K. Davidson; title: Robert and Richard Huber's adventures in collecting / Suzanne Stratton-Pruitt; title: Expanding paradigms : the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros and the changing of Latin American art / Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro; title: Collecting Latin American art in the United States from New Spain to today : a life's story / Estrellita B. Brodsky.