Twentieth-Century Art of Latin America

Jacqueline Barnitz is Professor of Modern Latin American Art at the University of Texas at Austin. Patrick Frank first taught the history of Latin American modern art in a university context in 1995. He is the author of several books and articles on the subject, focusing especially on graphic art and art in Argentina. He is also the author or coauthor of two widely used introductory textbooks on art.

List of Illustrations


Preface to the Second Edition


Jacqueline Barnitz


Preface to the Second Edition


Patrick Frank


Acknowledgments


Introduction: An Overview of the Nineteenth Century





Chapter 1. Modernismo and the Break with Academic Art, 1890–1934


Chapter 2. The Avant-Garde of the 1920s


Chapter 3. Social, Ideological, and Nativist Art: The 1930s, 1940s, and After


Chapter 4. Surrealism, Wartime, and New World Imagery, 1928–1964


Chapter 5. Torres-García's Constructive Universalism and the Abstract Legacy


Chapter 6. New Museums, the São Paulo Biennial, and Abstract Art


Chapter 7. Functionalism, Integration of the Arts, and the Postwar Architectural Boom


Chapter 8. Geometric, Optical, and Kinetic Art from the 1950s through the 1970s


Chapter 9. Brazilian Concrete and Neoconcrete Art and Their Offshoots


Chapter 10. Neofiguration, Pop, and Environments: The 1960s and 1970s


Chapter 11. Graphic Art, Painting, and Conceptualism as Ideological Tools


Chapter 12. Some Trends of the 1980s and Early 1990s


Chapter 13. Toward a New Century





Notes


Selected Bibliography


Illustration Credits


Index