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Description: Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?
BOOKResisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?
Héctor Olea (Editor), Mari Carmen Ramírez (Editor), Tomás Ybarra-Frausto (Editor)
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00102
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This first volume of the Critical Documents of 20th-Century Latin American and Latino Art series published by the International Center for the Arts of the Americas at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, presents 168 crucial texts written by influential artists, critics, curators, journalists, and intellectuals whose writings shed light on questions relating to what it means to be "Latin American" and/or "Latino."

Reinforced within a critical framework, the documents address converging issues, including: the construct of "Latin-ness" itself; the persistent longing for a continental identity; notions of Pan–Latin Americanism; the emergence of collections and exhibitions devoted specifically to "Latin American” or "Latino" art; and multicultural critiques of Latin American and Latino essentialism. The selected documents, many of which have never before been published in English, span from the late fifteenth century to the present day. They encompass key protagonists of this comprehensive history as well as unfamiliar figures, revealing previously unknown facets of the questions and issues at play. The book series complements the thousands of seminal documents now available through the ICAA Documents of 20th-Century Latin American and Latino Art digital archive. Together they establish a much-needed intellectual foundation for the exhibition, collection, and interpretation of art produced in Latin America and among Latino populations in the United States.
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Héctor Olea (Editor), Mari Carmen Ramírez (Editor), Tomás Ybarra-Frausto (Editor)
PublisherThe Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Print publication date April 2012 (in print)
Print ISBN 9780300146974
EISBN 9780300246117
Copyright© 2012 by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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Héctor Olea (Editor), Mari Carmen Ramírez (Editor), Tomás Ybarra-Frausto (Editor)
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Héctor Olea (Editor), Mari Carmen Ramírez (Editor), Tomás Ybarra-Frausto (Editor)
PublisherThe Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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Foreword
and Gwendolyn H. Goffe
Description: Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?
Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?
IN 2001, THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, HOUSTON (MFAH), under the inspired leadership of Director Peter C. Marzio, made a long-term, multi-million dollar commitment to Latin American and Latino art by establishing a curatorial department and its research arm—the International Center for the Arts of the Americas (ICAA)—dedicated to collecting, exhibiting, researching, and...
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and Gwendolyn H. Goffe
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Funders of the ICAA Digital Archive Project and Book Series
Héctor Olea (Editor), Mari Carmen Ramírez (Editor), Tomás Ybarra-Frausto (Editor)
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Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?
Funders of the ICAA Digital Archive Project and Book Series
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Héctor Olea (Editor), Mari Carmen Ramírez (Editor), Tomás Ybarra-Frausto (Editor)
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Acknowledgments
Héctor Olea (Editor), Mari Carmen Ramírez (Editor), Tomás Ybarra-Frausto (Editor)
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Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?
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Héctor Olea (Editor), Mari Carmen Ramírez (Editor), Tomás Ybarra-Frausto (Editor)
PublisherThe Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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Critical Documents of 20th-Century Latin American and Latino Art
Mari Carmen Ramírez
Description: Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?
Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?
Documents of 20th-Century Latin American and Latino Art (ICAA Documents Project) is a long-term archival, editorial, and bibliographic enterprise dedicated to the recovery and publication of thousands of primary source materials ...
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Mari Carmen Ramírez
PublisherThe Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Copyright© 2012 by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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Project Administration, Staff, and Consultants
Héctor Olea (Editor), Mari Carmen Ramírez (Editor), Tomás Ybarra-Frausto (Editor)
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Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?
Project Administration, Staff, and Consultants
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Héctor Olea (Editor), Mari Carmen Ramírez (Editor), Tomás Ybarra-Frausto (Editor)
PublisherThe Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Copyright© 2012 by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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A Brief Guide to Using Volume I
Héctor Olea (Editor), Mari Carmen Ramírez (Editor), Tomás Ybarra-Frausto (Editor)
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Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?
The Critical Documents of 20th-Century Latin American and Latino Art book series is an extension of the ICAA Digital Archive Project. Hence, the selection of authors and texts for this volume has been dictated by the parameters of the ICAA Documents Project’s editorial framework ...
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Héctor Olea (Editor), Mari Carmen Ramírez (Editor), Tomás Ybarra-Frausto (Editor)
PublisherThe Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Copyright© 2012 by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Related print edition pages: pp.36-39
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00102.007
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Resisting Categories
Héctor Olea (Editor), Mari Carmen Ramírez (Editor), Tomás Ybarra-Frausto (Editor)
Description: Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?
Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?
​AMERICA: FROM DISCOVERY TO INVENTION, from theoretical concoction to practical construct… We have been the subjects of a vast inquiry teeming with both questions and assertions ...
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Héctor Olea (Editor), Mari Carmen Ramírez (Editor), Tomás Ybarra-Frausto (Editor)
PublisherThe Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Copyright© 2012 by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Related print edition pages: pp.40-46
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00102.008
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I The Continental Utopia
Héctor Olea
Description: Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?
Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?
THE WIDE RANGE OF DOCUMENTS amassed in this comprehensive chapter reflect the shifts and continuities in thought as well as the various agendas that informed writings relating to the “discovery,” “invention,” and finally the construct of “Latin” America. Some of these sources help to dispel long-standing stereotypes; others point to the sheer...
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Héctor Olea
PublisherThe Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Copyright© 2012 by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Related print edition pages: pp.50-59
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00102.009
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Chapter subject tags:Columbus, Christopher--LandfallLatin America--Civilization--European influencesMachu Picchu Site (Peru)Latin American literatureLatin America--History

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I.1 America as a Utopian Refraction
Héctor Olea
Description: Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?
Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?
In what is also known as the Basel epistola, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus (c. 1451–1506) describes to King Ferdinand of Spain the islands and peoples he encountered during his initial journey across the Atlantic Ocean ...
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Héctor Olea
PublisherThe Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Copyright© 2012 by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Related print edition pages: pp.62-104
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00102.010
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Chapter subject tags:Columbus, Christopher--LandfallLatin America--Civilization--European influencesMachu Picchu Site (Peru)Latin American literatureLatin America--History

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I.2 The Invention of an Operative Concept
Héctor Olea
Description: Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?
Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?
Charles (Carlos) Calvo (1824–1906) was an Argentinean jurist who served as Paraguay’s chargé d’affaires to the courts of France and England ...
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Héctor Olea
PublisherThe Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Copyright© 2012 by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Related print edition pages: pp.105-188
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00102.011
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Chapter subject tags:Columbus, Christopher--LandfallLatin America--Civilization--European influencesMachu Picchu Site (Peru)Latin American literatureLatin America--History

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I.3 Nuestra América, the Multi-Homeland
Héctor Olea
Description: Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?
Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?
In this letter to King Philip II of Spain, Lope de Aguirre (c. 1510–1561)—a Spanish conquistador of Basque extraction who is best remembered for his extreme brutality and treachery in colonial Spanish America ...
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Héctor Olea
PublisherThe Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Copyright© 2012 by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Related print edition pages: pp.189-240
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00102.012
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Chapter subject tags:Columbus, Christopher--LandfallLatin America--Civilization--European influencesMachu Picchu Site (Peru)Latin American literatureLatin America--History

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I.4 Is América a No-Place?
Héctor Olea
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Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?
In this second excerpt from Males de origem [Rio de Janeiro: H. Garnier, Livreiro-Editor, 1905], Bomfim rallies for a holistic educational system ...
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Héctor Olea
PublisherThe Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Copyright© 2012 by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Related print edition pages: pp.241-274
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00102.013
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-17269
Chapter subject tags:Columbus, Christopher--LandfallLatin America--Civilization--European influencesMachu Picchu Site (Peru)Latin American literatureLatin America--History

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I.5 Tensions at Stake
Héctor Olea
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Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?
French anarchist and writer Charles Malato de Corné (1857–1938) wrote this brief article on Latin America for the inaugural issue of Les Annales de la Jeunesse Laïque, the official journal for the French youth ...
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Héctor Olea
PublisherThe Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Copyright© 2012 by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Related print edition pages: pp.275-300
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00102.014
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-17270
Chapter subject tags:Columbus, Christopher--LandfallLatin America--Civilization--European influencesMachu Picchu Site (Peru)Latin American literatureLatin America--History

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I.6 Does Brazil Belong to Latin América?
Héctor Olea
Description: Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?
Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?
The following excerpt is from the introduction to O Brasil na América: Caracterização da formação brasileira, which Manoel Bomfim wrote in 1925 and published in 1929 ...
Author
Héctor Olea
PublisherThe Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Copyright© 2012 by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Related print edition pages: pp.301-335
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00102.015
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-17271
Chapter subject tags:Columbus, Christopher--LandfallLatin America--Civilization--European influencesMachu Picchu Site (Peru)Latin American literatureLatin America--History

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II A New Art
Mari Carmen Ramírez
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Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?
BY 1920, AS POLITICIANS AND INTELLECTUALS​ continued to debate the coordinates for the identity of the region, a new dimension of the problem emerged around the inclusive notion of a “new art” for the continent ...
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Mari Carmen Ramírez
PublisherThe Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Copyright© 2012 by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Related print edition pages: pp.338-344
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00102.016
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-17272
Chapter subject tags:Art, Latin AmericanMexico--History--Revolution, 1910-1920Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--Latin AmericaLatin American literatureSiqueiros, David Alfaro

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II.1 A New Art for a New Continent
Mari Carmen Ramírez
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Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?
Better known for his essays and poems, Cuban-born José Martí engaged in art criticism throughout his career, including during his Mexican exile of 1875–76 ...
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Mari Carmen Ramírez
PublisherThe Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Copyright© 2012 by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Related print edition pages: pp.346-372
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00102.017
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Chapter subject tags:Art, Latin AmericanMexico--History--Revolution, 1910-1920Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--Latin AmericaLatin American literatureSiqueiros, David Alfaro

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II.2 Surveys Concerning a Continental Attitude
Mari Carmen Ramírez
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Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?
Cuba’s bimonthly (and later monthly) revista de avance not only fleshed out the direction of the country’s avant-garde tendencies of the late 1920s ...
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Mari Carmen Ramírez
PublisherThe Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Copyright© 2012 by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Related print edition pages: pp.373-401
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00102.018
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-17274
Chapter subject tags:Art, Latin AmericanMexico--History--Revolution, 1910-1920Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--Latin AmericaLatin American literatureSiqueiros, David Alfaro

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II.3 Harbingers of the New Art
Mari Carmen Ramírez
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Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?
These two manuscripts by Argentinean artist, writer, and language inventor Xul Solar (born Oscar Agustín Alejandro Schulz Solari, 1887–1963)—who was a member of the Buenos Aires avant-garde ...
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Mari Carmen Ramírez
PublisherThe Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Copyright© 2012 by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Related print edition pages: pp.402-421
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00102.019
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-17275
Chapter subject tags:Art, Latin AmericanMexico--History--Revolution, 1910-1920Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--Latin AmericaLatin American literatureSiqueiros, David Alfaro

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III The Good Neighborhood and Bad Times
Tomás Ybarra-Frausto
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Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?
AS LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES STARTED TO DEVELOP​ and affirm national identities in the nineteenth century, the United States began to activate a sphere of influence in the region ...
Author
Tomás Ybarra-Frausto
PublisherThe Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Copyright© 2012 by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Related print edition pages: pp.424-435
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00102.020
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Chapter subject tags:Pan-AmericanismMonroe doctrinePuerto Rico--HistoryRivera, Diego, 1886-1957Art, Latin American--Exhibitions

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III.1 The Monroe Doctrine: A Precursor to Pan Americanism
Tomás Ybarra-Frausto
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Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?
James Monroe (1758–1831), fifth president of the United States, delivered this speech, his seventh State of the Union address, to the U.S. Congress on December 2, 1823 ...
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Tomás Ybarra-Frausto
PublisherThe Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Copyright© 2012 by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Related print edition pages: pp.438-478
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00102.021
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Chapter subject tags:Pan-AmericanismMonroe doctrinePuerto Rico--HistoryRivera, Diego, 1886-1957Art, Latin American--Exhibitions

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III.2 Half-Worlds in Conflict
Tomás Ybarra-Frausto
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Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?
This extract from Ariel, the watershed essay written in Montevideo by Uruguayan poet and essayist José Enrique Rodó (1872–1917) in 1900 ...
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Tomás Ybarra-Frausto
PublisherThe Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Copyright© 2012 by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Related print edition pages: pp.479-513
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00102.022
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Chapter subject tags:Pan-AmericanismMonroe doctrinePuerto Rico--HistoryRivera, Diego, 1886-1957Art, Latin American--Exhibitions

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III.3 Insights from Latin America on U.S. Art and Society
Tomás Ybarra-Frausto
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Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?
In this letter to the editor of the Buenos Aires daily La Nación, Cuban writer and critic José Martí uses a recent exhibition of watercolors that he saw in New York ...
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Tomás Ybarra-Frausto
PublisherThe Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Copyright© 2012 by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Related print edition pages: pp.514-540
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00102.023
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Chapter subject tags:Pan-AmericanismMonroe doctrinePuerto Rico--HistoryRivera, Diego, 1886-1957Art, Latin American--Exhibitions

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III.4 The United States “Presents” and “Collects” Latin American Art
Tomás Ybarra-Frausto
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Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?
Prompted by the Department of State’s Division of Cultural Relations, the first Conference on Inter-American Relations in the Field of Art was held on October 11 and 12, 1939 ...
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Tomás Ybarra-Frausto
PublisherThe Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Copyright© 2012 by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Related print edition pages: pp.541-583
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00102.024
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Chapter subject tags:Pan-AmericanismMonroe doctrinePuerto Rico--HistoryRivera, Diego, 1886-1957Art, Latin American--Exhibitions

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IV Longing and Belonging
Mari Carmen Ramírez
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Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?
DATING FROM THE MID-1950S THROUGH THE LATE 1970S, the documents gathered in this chapter re-frame the discussion of the nature and features of the “new” Latin American art ...
Author
Mari Carmen Ramírez
PublisherThe Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Copyright© 2012 by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Related print edition pages: pp.586-597
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00102.025
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-17281
Chapter subject tags:Art, Latin AmericanIndian art--MexicoArt criticismPop artAvant-garde (Aesthetics)--Latin America

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IV.1 Straddling a Cultural Doctrine
Mari Carmen Ramírez
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Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?
In this key essay, Luis Valdez (born 1940)—the Chicano playwright, writer, and film director—questions the validity of differentiating appellations such as “Spanish American,” “Mexican American,” or “Latin American” ...
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Mari Carmen Ramírez
PublisherThe Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Copyright© 2012 by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Related print edition pages: pp.600-637
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00102.026
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-17282
Chapter subject tags:Art, Latin AmericanIndian art--MexicoArt criticismPop artAvant-garde (Aesthetics)--Latin America

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IV.2 A Dose of Skepticism
Mari Carmen Ramírez
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Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?
Marta Traba (1923–1983), the influential Argentinean art critic, wrote these two essays in the years after she relocated to Bogotá with her first husband, Colombian writer Alberto Zalamea ...
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Mari Carmen Ramírez
PublisherThe Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Copyright© 2012 by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Related print edition pages: pp.638-687
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00102.027
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-17283
Chapter subject tags:Art, Latin AmericanIndian art--MexicoArt criticismPop artAvant-garde (Aesthetics)--Latin America

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IV.3 Our Janus-faced Dilemma: Identity or Modernity?
Mari Carmen Ramírez
Description: Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?
Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?
In this early essay, Marta Traba ponders how Latin American artists can produce art that is “continental” in character at a moment when art world centers are eschewing realism ...
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Mari Carmen Ramírez
PublisherThe Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Copyright© 2012 by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Related print edition pages: pp.688-739
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00102.028
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-17284
Chapter subject tags:Art, Latin AmericanIndian art--MexicoArt criticismPop artAvant-garde (Aesthetics)--Latin America

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IV.4 Debating Identity on a Continental Scale
Mari Carmen Ramírez
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Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?
These pivotal questions were posed by the important symposium that accompanied the exhibition 12 Latin American Artists Today/12 artistas latino americanos de hoy at The University of Texas at Austin ...
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Mari Carmen Ramírez
PublisherThe Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Copyright© 2012 by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Related print edition pages: pp.740-787
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00102.029
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Chapter subject tags:Art, Latin AmericanIndian art--MexicoArt criticismPop artAvant-garde (Aesthetics)--Latin America

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V Destabilizing Categorizations
Tomás Ybarra-Frausto
Description: Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?
Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?
IN THE 1980s, ARTISTS, ACTIVISTS AND SCHOLARS​ in U.S. Latino communities consolidated the social and cultural agendas from the Civil Rights struggles of the 1960s and 70s ...
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Tomás Ybarra-Frausto
PublisherThe Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Copyright© 2012 by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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Chapter subject tags:Art, Latin AmericanArt, Latin American--ExhibitionsAvant-garde (Aesthetics)--Latin AmericaPan-AmericanismArt, Latin American--20th century

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V.1 Exhibiting Entrenched Representations
Tomás Ybarra-Frausto
Description: Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?
Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?
Robert L. Weitz (born 1945), professor and founding curator of the University Gallery Program at Chicago State University, and Mexico-born, Chicago-based art historian and curator Víctor A. Sorell ...
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Tomás Ybarra-Frausto
PublisherThe Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Copyright© 2012 by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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Chapter subject tags:Art, Latin AmericanArt, Latin American--ExhibitionsAvant-garde (Aesthetics)--Latin AmericaPan-AmericanismArt, Latin American--20th century

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V.2 Questioning Stereotypes
Tomás Ybarra-Frausto
Description: Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?
Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?
The noted Chicano art historian Jacinto Quirarte (born 1931) presents two contrasting viewpoints on Mexican American and Chicano art through this summary of interviews held in the summer of 1970 ...
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Tomás Ybarra-Frausto
PublisherThe Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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Chapter subject tags:Art, Latin AmericanArt, Latin American--ExhibitionsAvant-garde (Aesthetics)--Latin AmericaPan-AmericanismArt, Latin American--20th century

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VI The Multicultural Shift
Mari Carmen Ramírez
Description: Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?
Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?
THE LAST DECADE OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY​ was no less critical for the ongoing effort to (re)define Latin American and Latino art than earlier, especially active and pivotal periods like the 1920s and 1960s ...
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Mari Carmen Ramírez
PublisherThe Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Copyright© 2012 by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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Chapter subject tags:Art, Latin American--20th centuryMestizajeGlobalizationMulticultural AmericaCulture wars

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VI.1 Ideology Between Two Waters
Mari Carmen Ramírez
Description: Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?
Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?
This is Guillermo Gómez-Peña’s contribution to the catalogue for the exhibition The Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the 1980s organized in 1990 by the Studio Museum in Harlem ...
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Mari Carmen Ramírez
PublisherThe Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Copyright© 2012 by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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Chapter subject tags:Art, Latin American--20th centuryMestizajeGlobalizationMulticultural AmericaCulture wars

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VI.2 The Transnational Mise-en-Scène
Mari Carmen Ramírez
Description: Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?
Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?
Cuban art critic and theorist Gerardo Mosquera (born 1945) introduces the exhibition Ante América—held in Bogotá’s Biblioteca Luis Ángel Arango ...
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Mari Carmen Ramírez
PublisherThe Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Copyright© 2012 by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
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Chapter subject tags:Art, Latin American--20th centuryMestizajeGlobalizationMulticultural AmericaCulture wars

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Copyright CreditsI.1.7 Edmundo O’Gorman, “The invention of America, an inquiry into the Historical nature of the New World and the Meaning of its History” © 1961. Bloomington: Indiana University press, 1961. Reprinted with the permission of Indiana University Press.
I.2.5 Courtesy of the family of Mário de Andrade
I.2.6 Courtesy of the Instituto Luis Alberto Sánchez Authorization provided by the Fondo de Cultura Económica, for the 1945 Edition: Luis Alberto Sánchez, ¿Existe América Latina?
I.2.7 Courtesy of Mme. Paule Braudel
I.2.8 Courtesy of Jean Casimir
I.2.10 Guy Martinière, “L’invention d’un concept opératoire: la latinité de l’Amérique,” in Guy Martinière, Aspects de la coopération franco-brésilienne : transplantation culturelle et stratégie de la modernité. Paris: Presses Universitaires de Grenoble. Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, 1982.
I.2.11 Alain Rouquié, América Latina—Introducción al Extremo Occidente. México, D.F.: Siglo XXI Editores, 2004 © siglo xxi editor
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