Overview

In The Americas Revealed, distinguished art historian and curator Edward J. Sullivan brings together a vibrant group of essays that explore the formation, in the United States, of public and private collections of art from the Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking Americas. The contributors to this volume trace the major milestones and emerging approaches to collecting and presenting Spanish Colonial and modern Latin American art by museums, galleries, private collections, and corporations from the late nineteenth to the twenty-first century. In chronicling the roles played by determined collectors from New York to San Francisco, the essays examine a range of subjects from MoMA’s mid-twentieth-century acquisition strategies to the growing taste on the West Coast for the work of Diego Rivera. They consider the impact of various political shifts on art collecting, from reactions against the “American exceptionalism” of the Monroe Doctrine to the aesthetic biases of government-sponsored art academies in Mexico, Rio de Janeiro, and Havana. The final three chapters focus on living collectors such as Roberta and Richard Huber, Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, and Estrellita B. Brodsky. A thorough and definitive account of the changing course of private and public collections and their important connection to underlying political and cultural relations between the United States and Latin American countries, this volume gives a rare glimpse into the practice of collecting from the collectors’ own point of view. In addition to the editor, contributors to this volume are Miriam Margarita Basilio, Estrellita B. Brodsky, Vanessa K. Davidson, Anna Indych-López, Ronda Kasl, Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro, Berit Potter, Mari Carmen Ramírez, Joseph Rishel, Delia Solomons, and Suzanne Stratton-Pruitt.

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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 ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents List of Illustrations Foreword (Inge Reist) Introduction: Acquisitive Passions: Observations on Collecting the Art of the Americas in the United States (Edward J. Sullivan) 1. Evolving Taxonomies at The Museum of Modern Art in the 1930s and '40s and the Definitions of the Latin American Collection (Miriam Margarita Basilio) 2. Hot Styles and Cold War: Collecting Practices at MoMA and Other Museums in the Sixties (Delia Solomons) 3. The Philadelphia Story (Joseph Rishel) 4. Cargadores: Collecting Rivera, Mexican Modernism, and Bearing the Burdens of Historiography (Anna Indych-Lopez) 5. An American Museum: Representing the Arts of Mexico at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Ronda Kasl) 6. Building a Model of Diversity: Grace McCann Morley and Collecting Modern Latin American Art in San Francisco (Berit Potter) 7. Inverted Strategies: An Exhibition as Matrix for a Permanent Collection (Mari Carmen Ramirez) 8. Beyond Mexico: The Evolution of the Phoenix Art Museum's Latin American Collection (Vanessa K. Davidson) 9. Roberta and Richard Huber's Adventures in Collecting (Suzanne Stratton-Pruitt) 10. Expanding Paradigms: The Coleccion Patricia Phelps de Cisneros and the Changing Landscape of Latin American Art (Gabriel Perez-Barreiro) 11. Collecting Latin American Art in the United States from New Spain to Today: A Life's Story (Estrellita B. Brodsky) Notes References List of Contributors Index

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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

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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.

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