- Publisher
- Yale University Press
- Published
- 1989
- Shelf
- culture: Latin America
- ISBN
- 9780300045604
Latin America
Art in Latin America: The Modern Era, 1820-1980
Dawn Ades
The standard survey of a hundred and sixty years of Latin American art, from independence to the end of the muralists' long shadow.
Why read it
Ades organises by argument instead of by country, which is the only way the material holds together. The chapters on the Mexican muralists and on Brazilian Concretism are the ones designers keep coming back to: both are about what happens when artists decide their work has a public job to do, and both went somewhere European modernism did not.
Why own it
It has not been replaced in thirty-five years. Anyone writing about the subject is still citing it, and the documents section at the back reprints manifestos that are otherwise scattered.
Who it is for
Anyone who thinks modernism was a European story with outposts.
Opens a search on AbeBooks, a network of independent and antiquarian sellers, which is where a good part of this shelf has to be found, because it is out of print.
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