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Author: Edward J. Sullivan (Helen Gould Sheppard Professor of the History of Art)
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Imprint: Pennsylvania State University Press
Volume: 4
Dimensions:
Width: 20.30cm
, Height: 2.20cm
, Length: 25.40cm
Weight: 1.179kg
ISBN: 9780271079523
ISBN 10: 0271079525
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 04 May 2018
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
In addition to its focus on the fascinating history of the collecting of Latin American art in the United States, this volume provides an illuminating study of its reception in American museums and private collections. Critical and insightful essays by art historians, curators, and collectors highlight key episodes in this engaging subject and provide essential background for today's rapidly growing interest in the art of the region. -Jay A. Levenson, director, International Program at The Museum of Modern Art Edward Sullivan presents this topic with the updated perspective and intellectual enthusiasm that it needs to succeed in the newly configured relations between the United States and the rest of the Americas. How and why such collecting began in earnest and the cultural and political forces that sustained it are the topics of these deftly argued essays. The large and unwieldy concept of `the Americas' is truly and convincingly `revealed' through this sophisticated anthology. Original and engrossing. -Leonard Folgarait, author of Seeing Mexico Photographed: The Work of Horne, Casasola, Modotti and Alvarez Bravo Latin American art cannot be understood only from archives and national collections in Latin American countries; the institutional and private collections developed in the United States are fundamental. This book proves that with extraordinary excellence. -Andrea Giunta, author of Avant-Garde, Internationalism, and Politics: Argentine Art in the Sixties Edward Sullivan has long been at the forefront in championing Latin American art and its history in the United States. He is, therefore, the perfect person to edit a book on collecting Latin American art in this country. This is an entirely new, exciting, and useful contribution to a field that will no doubt welcome it with open arms. -Lynn Zelevansky, Henry J. Heinz II Director, Carnegie Museum of Art
The Americas Revealed provides a rich overview of the history of collecting Latin American art from the viceregal period to the present in the United States. The eleven chapters provide thought-provoking studies on a number of key institutions and individuals and their motives for collecting this material--personal, political, and economic. What emerges is a complex picture of an equally complex region. Despite numerous political contingencies and shifts in taste, as this volume eloquently shows, collecting and interpreting the art of Latin America has a long history in the United State that continues to reverberate today. --Ilona Katzew, Curator and Department Head of Latin American Art, LACMA In addition to its focus on the fascinating history of the collecting of Latin American art in the United States, this volume provides an illuminating study of its reception in American museums and private collections. Critical and insightful essays by art historians, curators, and collectors highlight key episodes in this engaging subject and provide essential background for today's rapidly growing interest in the art of the region. --Jay A. Levenson, director, International Program at The Museum of Modern Art Edward Sullivan presents this topic with the updated perspective and intellectual enthusiasm that it needs to succeed in the newly configured relations between the United States and the rest of the Americas. How and why such collecting began in earnest and the cultural and political forces that sustained it are the topics of these deftly argued essays. The large and unwieldy concept of 'the Americas' is truly and convincingly 'revealed' through this sophisticated anthology. Original and engrossing. --Leonard Folgarait, author of Seeing Mexico Photographed: The Work of Horne, Casasola, Modotti and Alvarez Bravo Latin American art cannot be understood only from archives and national collections in Latin American countries; the institutional and private collections developed in the United States are fundamental. This book proves that with extraordinary excellence. --Andrea Giunta, author of Avant-Garde, Internationalism, and Politics: Argentine Art in the Sixties Edward Sullivan has long been at the forefront in championing Latin American art and its history in the United States. He is, therefore, the perfect person to edit a book on collecting Latin American art in this country. This is an entirely new, exciting, and useful contribution to a field that will no doubt welcome it with open arms. --Lynn Zelevansky, Henry J. Heinz II Director, Carnegie Museum of Art
In addition to its focus on the fascinating history of the collecting of Latin American art in the United States, this volume provides an illuminating study of its reception in American museums and private collections. Critical and insightful essays by art historians, curators, and collectors highlight key episodes in this engaging subject and provide essential background for today's rapidly growing interest in the art of the region. --Jay A. Levenson, director, International Program at The Museum of Modern Art Edward Sullivan presents this topic with the updated perspective and intellectual enthusiasm that it needs to succeed in the newly configured relations between the United States and the rest of the Americas. How and why such collecting began in earnest and the cultural and political forces that sustained it are the topics of these deftly argued essays. The large and unwieldy concept of 'the Americas' is truly and convincingly 'revealed' through this sophisticated anthology. Original and engrossing. --Leonard Folgarait, author of Seeing Mexico Photographed: The Work of Horne, Casasola, Modotti and Alvarez Bravo Latin American art cannot be understood only from archives and national collections in Latin American countries; the institutional and private collections developed in the United States are fundamental. This book proves that with extraordinary excellence. --Andrea Giunta, author of Avant-Garde, Internationalism, and Politics: Argentine Art in the Sixties Edward Sullivan has long been at the forefront in championing Latin American art and its history in the United States. He is, therefore, the perfect person to edit a book on collecting Latin American art in this country. This is an entirely new, exciting, and useful contribution to a field that will no doubt welcome it with open arms. --Lynn Zelevansky, Henry J. Heinz II Director, Carnegie Museum of Art
Author Information
Edward J. Sullivan is Helen Gould Sheppard Professor of the History of Art at New York University. He is the author of more than thirty books and exhibition catalogues on Latin American and Caribbean art.
