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Table of contents
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Foreword
- Funders of the ICAA Digital Archive Project and Book Series
- Acknowledgments
- Critical Documents of 20th-Century Latin American and Latino Art: A DIGITAL ARCHIVE AND PUBLICATIONS PROJECT AT THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, HOUSTON
- Project Administration, Staff, and Consultants
- A Brief Guide to Using Volume I: NOTES ON THE SELECTION, PRESENTATION, EDITING, AND ANNOTATION OF TEXTS
- Resisting Categories
- I. THE CONTINENTAL UTOPIA
- The Continental Utopia
- I.1 AMERICA AS A UTOPIAN REFRACTION
- I.1.1 Concerning the Islands Recently Discovered in the Indian Sea
- I.1.2 Utopia
- I.1.3 New Atlantis
- I.1.4 Machu Picchu: The Discovery
- I.1.5 The Christening of America
- I.1.6 The March of Utopias
- I.1.7 The Invention of America
- I.2 THE INVENTION OF AN OPERATIVE CONCEPT
- I.2.1 The Latin American States
- I.2.2 Ancient and Modern Mexico
- I.2.3 The Latin Democracies in America
- I.2.4 To what extent is there a Latin America?
- I.2.5 Latin America
- I.2.6 Does Latin America Exist?
- I.2.7 Luis Alberto Sánchez’s Book: Is There Just One Latin America?
- I.2.8 Latin American Unity
- I.2.9 Does Latin America Exist?
- I.2.10 The Invention of an Operative Concept: The Latin-ness of America
- I.2.11 Latin America: An Introduction to Far-Western Identity
- I.3 NUESTRA AMÉRICA, THE MULTI-HOMELAND
- I.3.1 Letter from Lope de Aguirre, Rebel, to King Philip of Spain
- I.3.2 Reply of a South American to a Gentleman of this Island (Jamaica)
- I.3.3 The Latin American Multi-Homeland
- I.3.4 Our America
- I.3.5 Latin America—Evils of Origin (Summary)
- I.3.6 Latin American Perspectives
- I.3.7 The Creation of a Continent
- I.3.8 Letter to the Youth of Colombia
- I.3.9 The Beginnings of an American Culture
- I.4 IS AMÉRICA A NO-PLACE?
- I.4.1 Latin America—Evils of Origin (Conclusion)
- I.4.2 Indology
- I.4.3 First Message to Hispanic America
- I.4.4 Guardians of the Quill
- I.4.5 The Destiny of America
- I.4.6 The Actual Function of Philosophy in Latin America
- I.5 TENSIONS AT STAKE
- I.5.1 Latin America
- I.5.2 Toward an Efficient Latin America
- I.5.3 Barren Imperialism
- I.5.4 Which Culture Will Create Latin America: The Mexican Parameter or the Argentinean One?
- I.5.5 Autochtonism and Europeanism
- I.5.6 Americanism and Peruvianism
- I.5.7 The Anthropophagous Manifesto
- I.6 DOES BRAZIL BELONG TO LATIN AMÉRICA?
- I.6.1 Brazil in the Americas
- I.6.2 The Disconnection of America
- I.6.3 The Cordial Man, an American Product
- I.6.4 The Roots of Brazil: Frontiers of Europe
- I.6.5 The Roots of Brazil: The Sower and the Bricklayer
- I.6.6 What Does Latin America Mean?
- I.6.7 Brazilians and Our America
- II. A NEW ART
- A New Art
- II.1 A NEW ART FOR A NEW CONTINENT
- II.1.1 A Visit to the Exhibition at [The School] of Fine Arts
- II.1.2 Three Appeals for the Current Guidance of the New Generation of American Painters and Sculptors
- II.1.3 Eurindia
- II.1.4 Art Interpretations
- II.1.5 The New Art
- II.1.6 New World, New Races, New Art
- II.1.7 Lesson 132: The American Man and the Art of the Americas
- II.2 SURVEYS CONCERNING A CONTINENTAL ATTITUDE
- II.2.1–II.2.7 A SURVEY: WHAT SHOULD AMERICAN ART BE? (1928–29)
- II.2.1 Response to revista de avance Survey
- II.2.2 Response to revista de avance Survey
- II.2.3 Response to revista de avance Survey
- II.2.4 Response to revista de avance Survey
- II.2.5 Response to revista de avance Survey
- II.2.6 Response to revista de avance Survey
- II.2.7 State of an Investigation
- II.2.8 Apex of the New Taste
- II.2.9 Our Surveys: Painting in Latin America, What Luis Felipe Noé has to Say
- II.3 HARBINGERS OF THE NEW ART
- II.3.1–II.3.2 XUL SOLAR ON PETTORUTI
- II.3.1 Pettoruti and His Works
- II.3.2 Pettoruti
- II.3.3–II.3.4 ON CARLOS MÉRIDA
- II.3.3 Images of Guatemala
- II.3.4 Carlos Mérida: Essay on the Art of the Tropics
- II.3.5 Pablo Picasso: First Spiritual Unifier of Latin America
- II.3.6 Modern Mexican Painting
- II.3.7 Sabogal in Mexico
- III. THE GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD AND BAD TIMES
- The Good Neighborhood and Bad Times
- III.1 THE MONROE DOCTRINE: A PRECURSOR TO PAN AMERICANISM
- III.1.1 Annual Message: The Monroe Doctrine
- III.1.2 The American Illusion
- III.1.3 The Ailing Continent
- III.1.4 Europe and Latin America: Current Opinion and Consequences of European Malevolence
- III.1.5 Landings: Culture and Hispano-Americanism
- III.1.6 Bolivár-ism and Monroe-ism: Hispanic-Americanism and Pan Americanism
- III.1.7 The Latin American Essays: Newton Freitas
- III.1.8 The Puerto Rican Personality in the Commonwealth
- III.2 HALF-WORLDS IN CONFLICT
- III.2.1 Ariel: The Idea of Nordomania
- III.2.2 The American Half-Worlds
- III.2.3 Americanism and Hispanicism
- III.2.4 Edward Weston and Tina Modotti
- III.2.5 Art and Pan Americanism
- III.2.6 Latin American Unity: A Battle Of Diplomacy in San Francisco
- III.2.7 Caliban: A Question
- III.3 INSIGHTS FROM LATIN AMERICA ON U.S. ART AND SOCIETY
- III.3.1 Art in the United States
- III.3.2 Comrades in Chicago
- III.3.3 My Opinion on the North American Artists’ Exhibition
- III.3.4 Impressions from My Visit to the United States of North America
- III.3.5 Letter from New York
- III.4 THE UNITED STATES “PRESENTS” AND “COLLECTS” LATIN AMERICAN ART
- III.4.1 – III.4.2 CONFERENCE ON INTER-AMERICAN RELATIONS IN THE FIELD OF ART
- III.4.3 – 4.5 LATIN AMERICAN EXHIBITION OF FINE ARTS, 1940
- III.4.3 Message to the Latin American Exhibition of Fine Arts
- III.4.4 Introduction to Latin American Exhibition of Fine Arts
- III.4.5 Foreword to Latin American Exhibition of Fine Arts
- III.4.6 The Latin American Collection of the Museum of Modern Art
- III.4.7 – 4.8 PROCEEDINGS OF A CONFERENCE HELD AT THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, MAY 28–31, 1945
- III.4.7 Problems of Research and Documentation in Contemporary Latin American Art
- III.4.8 Contemporary Regional Schools in Latin America
- III.4.9 Traveling Exhibitions of Latin American Art Available for Circulation in the United States
- III.4.10 The United States Collects Pan American Art
- IV. LONGING AND BELONGING
- Longing and Belonging
- IV.1 STRADDLING A CULTURAL DOCTRINE
- IV.1.1 Introduction: “La Plebe”
- IV.1.2 The Cosmic Race: Grounds for a New Civilization
- IV.1.3 The Historical and Intellectual Presence of Mexican-Americans
- IV.1.4 Chicano Art
- IV.2 A DOSE OF SKEPTICISM
- IV.2.1–IV.2.2 MARTA TRABA
- IV.2.1 What Does “A Latin American Art” Mean?
- IV.2.2 Art’s Problems in Latin America
- IV.2.3 The Emergent Decade: Latin American Painters and Painting in the 1960s
- IV.2.4 Art of Latin America Since Independence
- IV.2.5– IV.2.6 THE “QUESTION” CONCERNING LATIN AMERICAN ART
- IV.2.5 The Question of Latin American Art: Does It Exist?
- IV.2.6 “The Question” 17 Years Later
- IV.2.7– IV.2.8 ARTES VISUALES ASKS: “WHEN WILL THE ART OF LATIN AMERICA BECOME LATIN AMERICAN ART?”
- IV.2.7 In Reply to A Question: “When will the art of Latin America become Latin American art?”
- IV.2.8 Comments on the Article by Damián Bayón
- IV.2.9 Why a Latin American Art?
- IV.3 OUR JANUS-FACED DILEMMA: IDENTITY OR MODERNITY?
- IV.3.1 The Problem of the “Existence” of the Latin American Artist
- IV.3.2 Identity or Modernity?
- IV.3.3 The Invention of Latin American Art
- IV.3.4 The Visual Arts in a Consumer Society
- IV.3.5 Toward a New Artistic Problem in Latin America
- IV.3.6 The Specificity of Latin American Art
- IV.3.7 The Nostalgia for History in the Visual Imagination of Latin America
- IV.3.8 Modern Art in Latin America
- IV.4 DEBATING IDENTITY ON A CONTINENTAL SCALE
- IV.4.1– IV.4.3 SPEAK OUT! CHARLA! BATE-PAPO!: CONTEMPORARY ART AND LITERATURE IN LATIN AMERICA, SYMPOSIUM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN, OCTOBER 1975
- IV.4.1 Latin American Art Today Does and Does Not Exist as a Distinct Expression
- IV.4.2 Latin America: A Culturally Occupied Continent
- IV.4.3 We Are Latin Americans: The Way of Resistance
- IV.4.4– IV.4.7 THE ETSEDRÓN DEBATE: THE 13TH SÃO PAULO BIENNIAL, OCTOBER 1975
- IV.4.4 Etsedrón: A Form of Violence
- IV.4.5 Etsedrón: Comments on the Article by Aracy A. Amaral
- IV.4.6 Etsedrón, or the Lack of Libidinous Interest in Reality
- IV.4.7 The Necessary Plurality of Latin American Art
- IV.4.8– IV.4.9 CONTROVERSIES AND PAPERS: SYMPOSIUM OF THE FIRST LATIN AMERICAN BIENNIAL OF SÃO PAULO
- IV.4.8 First Latin American Biennial of São Paulo
- IV.4.9 Why Do We Fear Latin Americanism?
- IV.4.10–IV.4.11 A FIRST CRITICAL ENCOUNTER WITH ARTISTS AND THE VISUAL ARTS: AN INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM, MUSEO DE BELLAS ARTES, JUNE 1978
- IV.4.10 Alternatives for Current Latin American Painting
- IV.4.11 Questions
- V. DESTABILIZING CATEGORIZATIONS
- Destabilizing Categorizations
- V.1 EXHIBITING ENTRENCHED REPRESENTATIONS
- V.1.1–V.1.2 HISPANIC AMERICAN ART IN CHICAGO, CHICAGO STATE UNIVERSITY GALLERY, 1980
- V.1.1 Hispanic-American Art in Chicago
- V.1.2 Some Thoughts Concerning the Exhibit of Hispanic Art in Chicago
- V.1.3–V.1.7 HISPANIC ART IN THE UNITED STATES: THIRTY CONTEMPORARY PAINTERS AND SCULPTORS, MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, HOUSTON, 1987
- V.1.3 Hispanic Art in the United States
- V.1.4 Art And Identity: Hispanics in the United States
- V.1.5 Homogenizing Hispanic Art
- V.1.6 The Poetics and Politics of Hispanic Art: A New Perspective
- V.1.7 Minorities and Fine-Arts Museums in the United States
- V.1.8 The Latin American Spirit
- V.1.9 Art of the Fantastic
- V.1.10 Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century
- V.2 QUESTIONING STEREOTYPES
- V.2.1 Mexican, Mexican American, Chicano Art: Two Views
- V.2.2 Turning It Around: A Conversation
- V.2.3 On Our Own Terms
- V.2.4 Latin American Art’s U.S. Explosion: Looking A Gift Horse in the Mouth
- V.2.5 “Fantastic” are the Others
- V.2.6 Beyond “The Fantastic”: Framing Identity in U.S. Exhibitions of Latin American Art
- V.2.7 Latin American Cultures: Mimicry or Difference
- VI. THE MULTICULTURAL SHIFT
- The Multicultural Shift
- VI.1 IDEOLOGY BETWEEN TWO WATERS
- VI.1.1 Border Culture: The Multicultural Paradigm
- VI.1.2 Mixing
- VI.1.3 Living Borders/Buscando América: Languages of Latino Self-Formation
- VI.1.4 Between Two Waters: Image and Identity in Latino-American Art
- VI.1.5 Multi-Correct Politically Cultural
- VI.1.6 The Chicano Movement/The Movement Of Chicano Art
- VI.1.7 Barricades of Ideas: Latino Culture, Site Specific Installation and the U.S. Art Museum
- VI.1.8 Aesthetic Moments of Latin Americanism
- VI.2 THE TRANSNATIONAL MISE-EN-SCÈNE
- VI.2.1 Facing the Americas
- VI.2.2–VI.2.3 CARTOGRAPHIES
- VI.2.2 Latin America: Another Cartography
- VI.2.3 Incomplete Glossary of Sources of Latin American Art
- VI.2.4 Signs of a Transnational Fable
- VI.2.5 Latin American Art’s International Mise-En-Scène: Installation and Representation
- VI.2.6 Empowering the Local
- VI.2.7 From Latin American Art to Art from Latin America
- EDITORS’ BIOGRAPHIES
- RESEARCHER AND TRANSLATOR CREDITS
- INDEX
- COPYRIGHT CREDITS