Latin American & Caribbean art : MoMA at El Museo

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Title:

Latin American & Caribbean art : MoMA at El Museo

Author:

Basilio, Miriam.

ISBN:

9780870704604

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

184 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

General Note:

Published on the occasion of the exhibition at El Museo del Barrio, New York, March 4-July 25, 2004.

Contents:

Looking back/going forward: MoMA reconsiders art of Latin America and the Caribbean / From El Museo del Barrio: a curator's notes on "MoMA at El Museo" / The art of Babel in the Americas / Reflecting on a history of collecting and exhibiting work by artists from Latin America / Toward a horizon / Diego Rivera's May Day, Moscow sketchbook / José Clemente Orozco's New York works / Joaquín Torres-Garcia's composition and Roberto Berdecio's the cube and the perspective / Antonio Berni's New Chicago Athletic Club / Wifredo Lam's The Jungle and Matta's "Inscapes" / Gego, Hélio Oiticica and Lygia Pape / Mathias Goeritz's message number 7B, Ecclesiastes VII, Rafael Montańez Ortiz's Archeological Find, 3 and Jesús Rafael Soto's Olive and Black / Marisol's LBJ and Fernando Botero's The Presidential Family / Antonio Frasconi's VIET NAM! and Cildo Meireles's Insertions into Ideological Circuits / Rafael Ferrer's 50 Cakes of Ice / Waltércio Caldas's Mirror Light and Cildo Meireles's Thread / Jean-Michel Basquiat's Untitled and Felix Gonzalez-Torres's "Untitled" (Perfect Lovers) / Ana Mendieta's Nile Born, José Leonilson's 34 with Scars and Doris Salcedo's Untitled / Kcho's in the Eyes of History and Los Carpinteros's Coal Oven / Gabriel Orozco's Maria, Maria, Maria, Vik Muniz's "Personal Articles" and Fernando Bryce's "South of the Border" / Enrique Chagoya's The Illuminated Cannibal

Abstract:

The catalogue of an exhibition highlighting artworks selected from New York's El Museo del Barrio presents over 100 paintings, drawings, sculptures, prints, and illustrated books produced by artists from Latin America and the Caribbean, selected from MoMA, with introductory texts from the curators providing analyses of the collection within the broader context of modern art in Latin America; a history of the development of the collection focusing on major acquisitions, groundbreaking exhibitions, and influential curators and staff involved in the formation and study of the collection; and a discussion of the curatorial premises for MoMA at El Museo. Short essays follow on key works added in each phase of the collection's growth.

Corporate Subject:

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) -- Exhibitions.

Subject Term:

Art, Latin American -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.

Art, Caribbean -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.

Art -- New York (State) -- New York -- Exhibitions.

Added Author:

Basilio, Miriam.

Added Corporate Author:

Museo del Barrio (New York, N.Y.)

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

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MoMA at El Museo: Latin American and Caribbean Art from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art is, as the title suggests, an exhibition highlighting artworks selected from this major collection. But it is so much more: A collaborative effort between the two New York museums, this exhibition and accompanying catalogue present over 100 paintings, drawings, sculptures, prints, and illustrated books produced by artists from Latin America and the Caribbean, selected from MoMA. Notably, it is this very collection that has created the paradigm of "Latin American Art" and has helped shape the ever-burgeoning art historical and cultural studies in this area, both in the United States and abroad. The curators' introductory texts provide analyses of the collection within the broader context of modern art in Latin America; a history of the development of the collection focusing on major acquisitions, groundbreaking exhibitions, and influential curators and staff involved in the formation and study of the collection; and discuss the curatorial premises for MoMA at El Museo . Short essays follow on key works added in each phase of the collection's growth, examples of which include work by Diego Rivera, Jos Clemente Orozco, Antonio Berni, and David Alfaro Siqueiros in the 1930s; Joaquin Torres-Garcia, Matta, Roberto Berdecio, and Wifredo Lam in the 1940s; Rafael Montanez Ortiz, Jesus Raphael Soto, Marisol, and Fernando Botero in the 1960s; and Jean-Michel Basquiat, Los Carpinteros, and Vik Muniz today.