Dimensions of the Americas: Art and Social Change in Latin America and the United States

Abstract

The art historian, Shifra Goldman, here provides an overview of the of modern and contemporary Latin American and Latino art. Her collection of 33 essays focuses on Latin American artists throughout Mexico, Central and South America, the Caribbean and the United States. Goldman's extensive introduction provides an up-to-date chronology of modern Latin American art; a of social art history in the United States; and synopses of recent theoretical and historical writings by major scholars from Mexico, Cuba, Brazil, Peru, Uruguay, Chile and the United States. In her essays, Goldman discusses a selection of topics, including: the influence of the Mexican muralists on the American continent; the political and artistic significance of poster art and print-making in Cuba, Puerto Rico and among Chicanos; the role of women artists such as Guatemalan painter Isabel Ruiz; and the increasingly important role of politics and multinational businesses in the art world of the 1970s and 1980s. She explores the reception of Latin American and Latino art in the United States, focusing on major historical exhibits as well as on exhibits by artists such as Chilean Alfredo Jaar and Argentinian Leandro Katz. Finally, she examines the significance of nationalist and ethnic themes in Latin American and Latino art.

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