Title: Museo Municipal de Arte Contemporaneo
Description: "One hundred works from the private collection of Dr. Luis Rivera Dávalos, donated to the municipality of Cuzco, led to the founding of a museum of contemporary art. As with most private collections, this one reveals taste and artistic inclinations of its patron. With a few exceptions, most works are by local commercial and untrained artists. A colloquial text by Manuel Gibaja animates the reader to relate freely with the works, which are predominantly figurative and folkloric. The term 'contemporary' is perhaps a little too ambitious for the group"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Subjects: Catalogs, Museo Municipal de Arte Contemporaneo (Cuzco, Peru), Peruvian Art, Art, Art patronage
Places: Cuzco, Peru
People: Luis Rivera Dávalos
Time periods: 20th century