Art Museums of Latin America: Structuring RepresentationMichele Greet, Gina McDaniel Tarver 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 means 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. |
Contents
An Episodic History of the Museu de Arte Moderna Rio | |
Impossible Meetings in the Museum of Copies | |
The Invention of the Museo de Arte Moderno | |
A Stimulus | |
MAMBSPMAC | |
The InterAmerican Project | |
The University | |
El Museo del Barrio New York | |
Exile and Contested Cultural Representation | |
A Museo de Arte Moderno Americano | |
Regarding Nemesio Antúnezs | |
The Experiences of | |
Index | |
The Early Years of the Museo Tamayo | |
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Art Museums of Latin America: Structuring Representation Michele Greet,Gina McDaniel Tarver No preview available - 2018 |
Art Museums of Latin America: Structuring Representation Michele Greet,Gina McDaniel Tarver No preview available - 2020 |