Michele Greet - Art Museums of Latin America: Structuring Representation

This important compendium surveys and explores in rich detail the history and role of museums as arbiters and advocates for art from the region and in distinct Latin American contexts. It is a must read for scholars, professionals, and students of Latin America and its art and cultural politics.

Adriana Zavala, Tufts University

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.

Michele Greet is associate professor of modern Latin American and European art and director of the art history program at George Mason University.

Gina McDaniel Tarver is associate professor of modern and contemporary art history, with a focus on Latin America, at Texas State University.

Cover Image: Side view of the Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, n.d. Courtesy of the Museo de Arte Moderno.

Routledge Research in Art Museums and Exhibitions is a new series focusing on museums, collecting, and exhibitions from an art historical perspective. Proposals for monographs and edited collections on this topic are welcomed.

For a full list of titles in this series, please visit https://www.routledge.com/RoutledgeResearch-in-Art-Museums-and-Exhibitions/book-series/RRAM

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Art Museums of Latin America: Structuring Representation
Edited by Michele Greet and Gina McDaniel Tarver

Structuring Representation

Edited by Michele Greet and Gina McDaniel Tarver

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