This book sheds light on an as-yet unstudied aspect of The Museum of Modern Arts (MoMA) preeminent role in establishing the definition of the problematic term Latin American art in the United States from the 1930s to the present through its collection displays. In examining the shifting categorization of Latin American works according to stylistic and geographic taxonomies, we gain a greater understanding of the organization of the Museums collections as a whole during the 1940s and 1950s. This book is the first to document these institutional precedents, crucial for the understanding of the articulation of a Modernist canon and its contested legacy today.
The MoMA is widely recognized as the preeminent institution that defined 20th-century art through its collection shaping our understandings of the history of art, with its hierarchies and exclusions, as they sediment over time. MoMAs holdings of art from Latin America shed light on a key period when the stylistic categories that have since come to be accepted by many today as the Modernist canon developed. MoMAs collection displays suggest ways in which artists from areas of the world formerly excluded can be incorporated within todays increasingly global museums. MoMAs approach may be compared to initiatives adopted by several museums since the 2000s, creating geographically defined curatorial positions as a way to redress gaps in collecting art from Latin America and other areas of the world. In this book, author Miriam M. Basilio Gaztambide offers a closer study of the history of collection displays as a means to understand canon formation in modern art museums.
This work will be of interest to those researching Latin American, American, modern, and contemporary art, and curatorial and museum studies.
Introduction: Collection Displays and Canon Formation;
1. An
Evolutionary Pedigree: Modern Art in the 1930s40s;
2. National
Representations and International Standards The Latin-American Collection of
the Museum of Modern Art (1943) and The First General Exhibition of the
Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture (1945);
3. Geographic
Distributions: The 25th Anniversary Exhibition, 19541955;
4. A Missing
Link: Elaine L. Johnsons Latin American Program and the 1967 Collection
Exhibition;
5. Revising Modernism? The Place of Latin American Art in MoMAs
Collection Galleries, 20042023
Miriam M. Basilio Gaztambide is Associate Professor of Art History and Museum Studies at New York University (NYU). She was co-curator of Tempo (MoMA QNS, 2002), MoMA at El Museo: Latin American and Caribbean Art from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art (2003), and Fighting Fascism: Visual Culture of the Spanish Civil War (19361939) (NYU Kimmel Windows, 2023). Her book Visual Propaganda, Exhibitions, and the Spanish Civil War (Routledge) was published in 2013.
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