Twentieth-Century Art of Latin America
Revised and Expanded Edition

Jacqueline Barnitz (Author), Patrick Frank (Author)

9781477308042, University of Texas Press

Paperback / softback, published 1 November 2015

435 pages
27.9 x 21.6 x 2.8 cm, 1.728 kg

The product of Jacqueline Barnitz’s more than forty years of studying and teaching, Twentieth-Century Art of Latin America surveys the major currents in and artists of Mexico, the Caribbean, and South America (including Brazil). This new edition has been refreshed throughout to include new scholarship on several modern movements, such as abstraction in the River Plate region and the Cuban avant-garde. A new chapter covers art since 1990. In all, 30 percent of the images in this edition are new, and thirty-four additional artists are discussed and illustrated.

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-GarcÍ
a's Constructive Universalism and the Abstract Legacy
Chapter 6. New Museums, the SÃ
o 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