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Art museums of Latin America : structuring representation
Title:
Art museums of Latin America : structuring representation

Routledge research in art museums and exhibitions

Routledge research in art museums and exhibitions.
Author:
Greet, Michele, 1970- editor.
ISBN:
9780367667009
Publication Information:
New York : Routledge, 2020.
Physical Description:
xix, 273 pages : illustrations (black and white), plans ; 25 cm
Series:
Routledge research in art museums and exhibitions

Routledge research in art museums and exhibitions.
General Note:
"First published 2018 by Routledge. First issued in paperback 2020."
Contents:
Introduction / Art museums and state politics -- From universalist to national art: Argentina's Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires / Mexico's Museo de Artes Plásticas: the divergent discourses of 1934 and 1947 / History and metamorphosis: Cuba's Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes / Incendiary objects: an episodic history of the Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro / Art museums as contructions of modernity -- Pedrosa and Malraux: impossible meetings in the Museum of Copies / A museum without a venue: the invention of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá, 1955-1963 / The architecture of Mexico's Museo de Arte Moderno: a stimulus to museological renewal / Local dynamic of internationalism -- The São Paulo Biennial complex: MAM-BSP-MAC / Local processes and transnational circuits: the Inter-American Project and the birth of modern art museums in Barranquilla and Cartagena / An uneasy alliance: the early years of the Museo Tamayo / Colección Jumex and Mexico's art scene: the intersection of public and private / National and regional perspectives from the United States -- Latin American art at the University of Texas at Austin: the University Art Museum / Somehow exceptional: El Museo del Barrio, New York / Museum as battleground: exile and contested cultural representation in Miami's Cuban museum / Reimagining the art museum -- Revolutionary modernism: a "Museo de Arte Moderno Americano" rehearsed in print in Mexico City, 1926-1928 / The museum in times of revolution: regarding Nemesio Antúnez's Transformation Program for Chile's Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, 1969-1973 / Critical deviations in Latin American museums: the experiences of the Museo del Barro in Asunción, Paraguay and the micromuseum in Lima, Peru
Abstract:
"Since the late nineteenth century, art museums have played crucial social, political, and economic roles throughout Latin America because of the ways that they structure representation. By mean of their architecture, collections, exhibitions, and curatorial practices, Latin American art museums have crafted representations of communities, including nation states, and promoted particular group ideologies. This collection of essays, arranged in thematic sections, will examine the varying and complex functions of art museums in Latin America: as nation-building institutions and instruments of state cultural politics; as foci for the promotion of Latin American modernities and modernisms; as sites of mediation between local and international, private and public interests; as organizations that negotiate cultural construction within the Latin American diaspora and shape constructs of Latin America and its nations; and as venues for the contestation of elitist and Eurocentric notions of culture and the realization of cultural diversity rooted in multiethnic environments"--Provided by publisher
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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