Art Museums of Latin America

Michele Greet is associate professor of modern Latin American and European art and director of the art history program at George Mason University . Gina McDaniel Tarver is associate professor of modern and contemporary art history, with a focus on Latin America, at Texas State University.

Part I: Art Museums and State Politics 1 From Universalist to National Art: The Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires 2 Mexico’s Museo de Artes Plásticas: The Divergent Discourses of 1934 and 1947 3 History and Metamorphosis: Cuba’s Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes 4 Incendiary Objects: An Episodic History of the Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro Part II Art Museums as Constructions of Modernity 5 Pedrosa and Malraux: Impossible Meetings in the "Museum of Copies" 6 A Museum without a Venue: The Invention of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, 1955–1963 7 The Architecture of Mexico’s Museo de Arte Moderno: A Stimulus to Museological Renewal Part III Local Dynamics of Internationalism 8 The São Paulo Biennial Complex: MAM–BSP–MAC 9 Local Processes and Transnational Circuits: The Inter-American Project and the Birth of Modern Art Museums in Barranquilla and Cartagena 10. An Uneasy Alliance: The Early Years of the Museo Tamayo 11 Colección Jumex and Mexico’s Art Scene: The Intersection of Public and Private Part IV National and Regional Perspectives from the United States 12 Latin American Art at The University of Texas at Austin: The University Art Museum 13 Somehow Exceptional: El Museo del Barrio, New York 14 Museum as Battleground: Exile and Contested Cultural Representation in Miami’s Cuban Museum Part V Reimagining the Art Museum 15 Revolutionary Modernism: A "Museo de Arte Moderno Americano" Rehearsed in Print in Mexico City, 1926–1928 16 The Museum in Times of Revolution: Regarding Nemesio Antúnez’s Transformation Program for Santiago’s Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, 1969–1973 17 Critical Deviations in Latin American Museums: The Experiences of the Museo del Barro in Asunción, Paraguay and the Micromuseo in Lima, Peru