Readings in Latin American Modern Art

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Pub. Date: 2004-04-10
Publisher(s): Yale University Press
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Cover illustration: Xul Solar, detail of Drago (Dragon), 1927. Watercolor on paper, 10 x 12 5/8 in. (25.5 x 32 cm).

Table of Contents

The Cuban-Chinese Cook
Patrick Frank
ix
1. Early Modern Currents
Saturnino Herrán: "Our Gods" Mural Project
Jacinto Quirarte
3(2)
Dr. Atl
MacKinlay Helm
5(5)
Untitled Statements
Armando Reverón
10(2)
Manifesto of Martin Fierro
12(2)
Don Pedro Figari
Ricardo Güiraldes
14(3)
Regional Autonomy
Pedro Figari
17(2)
Emilio Pettoruti
Xul Solar
19(3)
The Situation of the Modern Artist
Emilio Pettoruti
22(2)
Anthropophagite Manifesto
Oswald de Andrade
24(4)
Manifesto of the Grupo Minorista: Havana, 7 May 1927
28(5)
2. Figural Realist Styles
Manifesto of the Union of Mexican Workers, Technicians, Painters, and Sculptors
33(3)
Rockefellers Ban Lenin in RCA Mural and Dismiss Rivera
36(7)
Diego Rivera's Mural in the Palace of Fine Arts
Rafael Ángel Herrerias
43(5)
Orozco "Explains"
José Clemente Orozco
48(3)
Francisco Goitia: Tata Jesucristo
Hayden Herrera
51(3)
Los Tres Jircas (The Three Peaks)
Enrique López Albújar
54(7)
Latin America Faces the Quincentenary: An Interview with Oswaldo Guayasamin
Fred Murphy
61(6)
3. Fantasy and Surrealism in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Haitian Art...How It Started
DeWitt Peters
67(6)
A Visit with Hector Hyppolite
Selden Rodman
73(3)
A World Created by Magic: Excerpts from a Conversation with André Pierre
Edited by Donald Cosentino
76(3)
Frida Kahlo's Bus Accident
Martha Zamora
79(2)
Leonora Carrington
Marie-Pierre Colle
81(5)
Two Theories of Contemporary Mexican Painting
Marta Traba
86(5)
Syncretism and Syntax in the Art of Wifredo Lam
Lowery S. Sims
91(12)
4. Major Architectural Projects
Aula Magna Hall
Paulina Villanueva
103(2)
Olympic Stadium
Paulina Villanueva
105(2)
Modernity in Mexico: The Case of the Ciudad Universitaria
Celia Ester Avredando Zambrano
107(10)
Brasilia
Valerie Fraser
117(18)
5. Non-Objective and Informalist Modes of Abstraction
The New Art of America
Joaquin Torres-Garcia
135(7)
Inventionist Manifesto
142(2)
The Founding of Madi
Gyula Kosice
144(2)
Math Manifesto
Gyula Kosice
146(2)
An Interview with Fernando de Szyszlo
Álvaro Medina
148(6)
Alejandro Obregón
Marta Traba
154(7)
6. Constructivist Of Neo-Concrete Art
GRAV Manifesto: Transforming the Current Situation in Plastic Art
161(3)
Color and the History of Painting
Carlos Cruz-Diez
164(2)
Reflections on Color
Carlos Cruz-Diez
166(2)
Artist's Statement
Alejandro Otero
168(2)
Serialization
Jesús Rafael Soto
170(1)
Artist's Statement
Jesús Rafael Soto
171(1)
Neo-Concrete Manifesto
Ferreira Gullax
172(4)
Beasts [Bichos] 1960
Lygia Clark
176(1)
Tropicália: March 4, 1968
Hélio Oiticica
177(3)
"Tropicália"
Caetano Veloso
180(2)
Afro-Brazilian Symbolism in the Art of Rubem Valentim
Henry John Drewal
182(5)
7. Postwar Figural Art
The Cactus Curtain
José Luis Cuevas
187(7)
Chaos as a Structure
Luis Felipe Noé
194(5)
A Latin Answer to Pop
Jacqueline Barnitz
199(4)
The Perils of Popularity: An Interview with Fernando Botero
Cristina Carrillo de Albornoz
203(6)
The Death of a Mural Movement
Eva Cockcroft
209(3)
An Interview with Luis Cruz Azaceta
Friedhelm Mennekes
212(6)
In the Studio: Miguel Von Dangel
Ricardo Pau-Llosa
218(5)
8. As a New Centerry Turns
Cries from the Wilderness
Lawrence Wechsler
223(4)
Everyone Needs a Madonna: A Visit with Gonzalo Diaz
227(3)
The Catherwood Project
Leandro Katz
230(3)
Miami No Es Los Estados Unidos
Susan Valdés-Dapena
233(4)
Miguel Ángel Rios: Epics from the Earth
Frederick Ted Castle
237(5)
Impossible Weavings
Cecilia Vicuña
242(5)
Nahum Zenff's Con Todo Respeto
Eduardo de Jesús Douglas
247(3)
Marks of the Journey: Roberto Merino and Eugenio Dittborn
250(7)
Bibliography 257(10)
Index 267(4)
Credits 271

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