The Americas revealed : collecting colonial and modern Latin American art in the United States / edited by Edward J. Sullivan.
"Explores the formation of public and private collections of Spanish Colonial and modern Latin American art throughout the United States, and the impact of the ever-changing political landscape of Latin American countries"--Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9780271079523
- ISBN: 0271079525
- Physical Description: xvi, 201 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
- Publisher: [New York, New York] : The Frick Collection ; [2018]
- Copyright: ©2018
Content descriptions
General Note: | "This book evolved from a symposium organized by the Center for the History of Collecting that was held at The Frick Collection on May 16 and 17, 2014." |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Acquisitive passions : observations on collecting the art of the Americas in the United States / Edward J. Sullivan -- Evolving taxonomies at the Museum of Modern Art in the 1930s and 40s and the definitions of the "Latin American collection" / Miriam Margarita Basilio -- Hot styles and Cold War : collecting practices at the Museum of Modern Art and other museums in the sixties / Delia Solomons -- The Philadelphia story / Joseph Rishel -- Cargadores : collecting Rivera, Mexican modernism, and bearing the burdens of historiography / Anna Indych-López -- An American museum : representing the arts of Mexico at the Metropolitan Museum of Art / Ronda Kasl -- Building a model of diversity : Grace McCann Morley and collecting modern Latin American art in San Francisco / Berit Potter -- Inverted strategies : an exhibition as matrix for a permanent collection / Mari Carmen Ramírez -- Beyond Mexico : the evolution of Phoenix Art Museum's Latin American collection / Vaness K. Davidson -- Robert and Richard Huber's adventures in collecting / Suzanne Stratton-Pruitt -- Expanding paradigms : the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros and the changing of Latin American art / Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro -- Collecting Latin American art in the United States from New Spain to today : a life's story / Estrellita B. Brodsky. |
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The Americas Revealed : Collecting Colonial and Modern Latin American Art in the United States
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The Americas Revealed : Collecting Colonial and Modern Latin American Art in the United States
In The Americas Revealed , distinguished art historian and curator Edward J. Sullivan brings together a vibrant group of essays that explore the formation, in the United States, of public and private collections of art from the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking Americas. The contributors to this volume trace the major milestones and emerging approaches to collecting and presenting Spanish Colonial and modern Latin American art by museums, galleries, private collections, and corporations from the late nineteenth to the twenty-first century. In chronicling the roles played by determined collectors from New York to San Francisco, the essays examine a range of subjects from MoMA's mid-twentieth-century acquisition strategies to the growing taste on the West Coast for the work of Diego Rivera. They consider the impact of various political shifts on art collecting, from reactions against the "American exceptionalism" of the Monroe Doctrine to the aesthetic biases of government-sponsored art academies in Mexico, Rio de Janeiro, and Havana. The final three chapters focus on living collectors such as Roberta and Richard Huber, Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, and Estrellita B. Brodsky. A thorough and definitive account of the changing course of private and public collections and their important connection to underlying political and cultural relations between the United States and Latin American countries, this volume gives a rare glimpse into the practice of collecting from the collectors' own point of view. In addition to the editor, contributors to this volume are Miriam Margarita Basilio, Estrellita B. Brodsky, Vanessa K. Davidson, Anna Indych-López, Ronda Kasl, Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro, Berit Potter, Mari Carmen RamÃrez, Joseph Rishel, Delia Solomons, and Suzanne Stratton-Pruitt.