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Marisol: A Retrospective
Marisol Escobar; Edited by Cathleen Chaffee; Contributions by Jason Hose; Text written by Anna Katherine Brodbeck, Estrellita Brodsky, …
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In 1959, the very year the Cuban Revolution amplified Cold War
tensions in the Americas, museumgoers in the United States
witnessed a sudden surge in major exhibitions of Latin American
art. Surveying the 1960s boom of such exhibits, this book documents
how art produced in regions considered susceptible to communist
influence was staged on U.S. soil for U.S. audiences. Held in
high-profile venues such as the Guggenheim Museum, the Walker Art
Center, MoMA, and the Art Institute of Chicago, the exhibitions of
the 1960s Latin American art boom did not define a single stylistic
trend or the art of a single nation but rather attempted to frame
Latin America as a unified whole for U.S. audiences. Delia Solomons
calls attention to disruptive artworks that rebelled against the
curatorial frames purporting to hold them and reveals these
exhibitions to be complex contact zones in which competing voices
collided. Ultimately, through multiple means—including choosing
to exclude artworks with readily decipherable political messages
and evading references to contemporary inter-American
frictions—the U.S. curators who organized these shows crafted
projections of Pan-American partnership and harmony, with the
United States as leader, interpreter, and good neighbor, during an
era of brutal U.S. interference across the Americas. Theoretically
sophisticated and highly original, this survey of Cold War–era
Latin American art exhibits sheds light on the midcentury history
of major U.S. art museums and makes an important contribution to
the fields of museum studies, art history, and Latin American
modernist art.
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