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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.
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.
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