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- Pages: 355 p.
- Size:220 x 280 mm
- Illustrations:30 b/w, 270 col.
- Language(s):English
- Publication Year:2026
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- ISBN: 978-2-503-61588-2
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- Forthcoming (Jul/26)
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Through focused case studies on specific movements, artworks, institutions, artists, and techniques, the original essays in this volume span six decades of production in Latin America and its diasporas.
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BIO
Ilona Katzew is the curator and department head of Latin American art at LACMA, and is a widely recognized expert in her field. She formed LACMA’s notable collection of Spanish American art and has enhanced its modern and contemporary collection with over 500 acquisitions. A prolific author, her books include, among others, Casta Painting: Images of Race in Eighteenth-Century Mexico (2004), Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World (2011), Painted in Mexico, 1700–1795 (2017), and Archive of the World: Art and Imagination in Spanish America (2022).
Rachel Kaplan is associate curator of Latin American art at LACMA. She curated Pressing Politics: Revolutionary Graphics from Mexico and Germany (2022) and wrote its catalogue, both in collaboration with Erin Sullivan Maynes. She is also the curator of the traveling exhibition Rufino Tamayo: Innovation and Experimentation (2019, 2024), and the author of the accompanying publication, Rufino Tamayo: The Essential Figure. She received her PhD in 2015 from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.
Summary
Organized as a tribute to the distinguished art historian Edward J. Sullivan, this compelling volume brings together fresh perspectives on Latin American and Latinx art. Its seventeen essays illuminate often overlooked artists, mediums, geographies, and traditions with new research and insightful analysis. The volume is arranged into four thematic sections. “Hemispheric Modernisms” addresses how artists across the Americas have engaged with global art movements and transnational networks while responding to their local contexts and concerns. “Politics of Images” focuses on images embedded with overt or covert political meanings, as well as works that address the politics of identity. “Museums on Display” unravels the role of museums in current debates in the field. How works are selected and by whom, the contexts in which they are displayed, and the many implications of omissions from institutional spaces are some of the critical issues discussed. “Women at the Center” foregrounds the work of female artists. The essays in this section show how women’s creativity has been subjected to myopic criticism, lay bare the endemic barriers that have accounted for the invisibility of artists, and map out a more inclusive future. Rounding out the volume is a revealing conversation with Sullivan about his role in shaping the field and his reflections on the future of Latin American art during times of change. Designed to be engaging for readers new to the field, longtime aficionados, and specialists, Visualizing the Americas opens up unexpected pathways through the expanding canon of this increasingly popular field.
With contributions by Miriam M. Basilio Gaztambide, Denise Birkhofer, Vanessa K. Davidson, Esther Gabara, Michele Greet, Anna Indych-López, Rachel Kaplan, Ilona Katzew, Lynda Klich, Adele Nelson, Sean Nesselrode Moncada, Luis Pérez Oramas, Ana María Reyes, Julián Sánchez González, Joseph Shaikewitz, Edward. J. Sullivan, Susanna V. Temkin, and Madeline Murphy Turner.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface, Ilona Katzew and Rachel Kaplan
A Conversation
Ilona Katzew and Edward J. Sullivan
Hemispheric Modernisms
Unplaceable Intimacies: Nahui Olin’s Mexico City
Joseph Shaikewitz
The Past as Prerogative: Precolombinismo and Ancestralismo in Andean Art
Michele Greet
The Curious Matter of Venezuelan Informalism
Sean Nesselrode Moncada
Ghosts and Duende among Dolls: Armando Reverón and the Floral Allegory of Painting
Luis Pérez-Oramas
The Politics of Images
Poetry, Indeterminacy, and “Purposeless Play”: Edgardo Antonio Vigo’s Proyectos a Realizar
Vanessa K. Davidson
Fernando Botero’s Critique of the Ultra-Right’s Reconquista in Mid-Twentieth Century Colombia
Ana María Reyes
Una mujer mexicana trecedimensional: Trece señoritas (1983) at the Teatro La Capilla
Madeline Murphy Turner
Museums on Display
Spanish America at the Center of the World
Ilona Katzew
Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century (MoMA, 1993): Surveying and Emerging Canon
Miriam M. Basilio Gaztambide
Recovering the History of The First Comprehensive Puerto Rican Art Exhibition at New York’s Riverside Museum
Susanna V. Temkin
Framing the Museum: Sandra Gamarra Heshiki Pictures Restitution
Esther Gabara
The Mobility of Artists
Global Trails, Local Paths: Frederic Edwin Church and José María Velasco
Alicia Lubowski-Jahn
Fighting with Clenched Fists: Luis Arenal Bastar’s Artistic and Activist Networks
Rachel Kaplan
Fayga Ostrower’s Print Work: Gender, Labor, and Brazilian Cultural Diplomacy
Adele Nelson
Sidewalk, Stoop, Bodega: Nueva York’s Diasporic Spatial Politics
Anna Indych-López
Modernism and the Vernacular
Raw and Wrought: The Malleability of the Woodcut in Postrevolutionary Mexico
Lynda Klich
Abstraction, Decoration, and Domestic Life: The Radical Practice of Colombian Artist Edelmira Boller
Ana M. Franco
Memória de ouro, corpo cerâmico: The Durable Art of Aurea Oliveira Santos
Julián Sánchez-González
Iconography and Identity in the Neo-Mexicanist Assemblages of Adolfo Patiño
Denise Birkhofer
