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This book presents an audacious account of the ways in which the
arts in the Americas were modernized during the first half of the
twentieth century. Rather than viewing modernization as a steady
progression from one 'ism' to another, Edward J. Sullivan adopts a
comparative approach, drawing his examples from North America, the
Caribbean, Central and South America. By considering the Americas
in this hemispheric sense he is able to tease out many stories of
art and focus on the ways in which artists from different regions
not only adapted and experimented with visual expression, but also
absorbed trans-national as well as international influences. He
shows how this rich diversity is most evident in the various forms
of abstract art that emerged throughout the Americas and which in
turn had an impact on art throughout the world.
An overdue evaluation of the life and work of a prolific and
significant contemporary artist Cuban-born artist Carmen Herrera
(b. 1915) has painted for more than seven decades, though it is
only in recent years that acclaim for her work has catapulted the
artist to international prominence. This handsome volume offers the
first sustained examination of her early career from 1948-78, which
spans the art worlds of Havana, Paris, and New York. Essays
consider the artist's early studies in Cuba, her involvement with
the Salon des Realites Nouvelles in post-war Paris, and her
groundbreaking New York output, as well as situate her work in the
context of a broader Latin American avant-garde art. An essay by
Dana Miller considers Herrera's New York work of the 1950s through
the 1970s, when Herrera was arriving at and perfecting her
signature style of hard edge abstraction. Personal family
photographs from Herrera's archive enrich the narrative, and a
chronology addressing the entirety of her life and career features
additional documentary images. Over 80 works are illustrated as
color plates, making this book the most extensive representation of
Herrera's work to date. Distributed for the Whitney Museum of
American Art Exhibition Schedule: Whitney Museum of American Art
(09/16/16-01/02/17) Wexner Center for the Arts (02/04/17-04/16/17)
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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