Mari Carmen Ramírez - Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?

RESISTING CATEGORIES:
LATIN AMERICAN AND / OR LATINO?

Critical Documents of 20th-Century Latin American and Latino Art

SERIES EDITORS

Mari Carmen Ramrez
Hctor Olea

SERIES COORDINATOR

Mara C. Gaztambide

VOLUME EDITORS

Hctor Olea
Melina Kervandjian

PUBLICATIONS DIRECTOR

Diane Lovejoy

VOLUME TITLES

Volume I: Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino? (2012)
Volume II: National Imaginaries/Cosmopolitan Identities (2013)

Underwritten by THE NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES
Published with the assistance of THE GETTY FOUNDATION

ORGANIZED BY

HCTOR OLEA
MARI CARMEN RAMREZ
TOMS YBARRA-FRAUSTO

with Document Introductions by

MARA C. GAZTAMBIDE

EDITED BY

HCTOR OLEA
MELINA KERVANDJIAN

THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, HOUSTON
INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR THE ARTS OF THE AMERICAS
Distributed by YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS, NEW HAVEN and LONDON

2012 by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. All rights reserved.

This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, including illustrations, in any form (beyond that copying permitted by Sections 107 and 108 of the U.S. Copyright Law and except by reviewers for the public press), without written permission from the publisher.

This book was published in conjunction with the launch of the Digital Archive of the International Center for the Arts of the Americas on January 19, 2012. http://icaadocs.mfah.org

PUBLICATIONS DIRECTOR: Diane Lovejoy

EDITORIAL MANAGER: Melina Kervandjian

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INDEX: J. Naomi Linzer Indexing Services

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Cover illustration: Rafael Alberti, letter (detail) to Len Ferrari, Rome, Italy, April 1965. Personal archive of Len Ferrari, Buenos Aires, Argentina. [SEE DIGITAL ARCHIVE 743697 (http://icaadocs.mfah.org/icaadocs/THEARCHIVE/FullRecord/tabid/88/doc/743697/language/en-US/Default.aspx)]

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Resisting categories: Latin American and/or Latino? / organized by Hctor Olea, Mari Carmen Ramrez, Toms Ybarra-Frausto ; with document introductions by Mara C. Gaztambide ; edited by Hctor Olea and Melina Kervandjian.

pages cm

(Critical documents of 20th-century Latin American and Latino art ; v. I)

Summary: This anthology of more than 165 seminal writings by influential twentieth- and twenty-first-century artists and critics who explore and challenge complex definitions of what it means to be Latin American or Latino is designed to be an indispensable tool for the study of Latin American and Latino art Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-300-14697-4 (hardback)

1. Art, Latin American.2. Hispanic American art.
I. Ramrez, Mari Carmen, 1955 editor of compilation.
II. Ybarra-Frausto, Toms, 1938 editor of compilation.
III. Olea, Hctor, editor of compilation.
IV. Gaztambide, Mara C., writer of added commentary.
V. Kervandjian, Melina, editor.

N6502.R47 2012
704.0368DC23 2011053252

IN MEMORY OF OUR COLLEAGUE
OLIVIER DEBROISE
(19542008)

who believed in and supported wholeheartedly the
ICAA Documents Project from its inception.
His intellectual contributions to the early stages
of this book were invaluable.

BY GWENDOLYN H. GOFFE

A DIGITAL ARCHIVE AND PUBLICATIONS PROJECT

BY MARI CARMEN RAMREZ

NOTES ON THE SELECTION, PRESENTATION, EDITING, AND ANNOTATION OF TEXTS

BY HCTOR OLEA, MARI CARMEN RAMREZ, AND TOMS YBARRA-FRAUSTO

INTRODUCTION BY HCTOR OLEA

Christopher Columbus, 1493

Thomas More, 1516

Sir Francis Bacon, 1623

Hiram Bingham, 1911

Alfonso Reyes, 1942

Oswald de Andrade, 1953

Edmundo OGorman, 1961

Charles (Carlos) Calvo, 1862

douard Thouvenel, 1862

Charles (Carlos) Calvo, 1862

Michel Chevalier, 1863

Raymond Poincar, 1912

Francisco Garca Caldern, 1912

Andr Siegfried, 1934

Mrio de Andrade, 1934

Luis Alberto Snchez, 1945

Fernand Braudel, 1948

Jean Casimir, 1969

Darcy Ribeiro, 1976

Guy Martinire, 1978

Alain Rouqui, 1987

Lope de Aguirre, 1561

Simn Bolvar, 1815

Jos Maria Torres Caicedo, 186465

Jos Mart, 1891

Manoel de Bomfim, 1905

Jos Verssimo, 1912

Francisco Garca Caldern, 1912

Jos Vasconcelos, 1923

Albert Zum Felde, 1924

Manoel de Bomfim, 1905

Jos Vasconcelos, 1926

Waldo Frank, 1930

Alfonso Reyes, 1930

Alfonso Reyes, 1942

Leopoldo Zea, 1942

Charles Malato, 1902

Pedro Figari, 1925

Pablo Rojas Paz, 1927

Antenor Orrego, 1928

Mart Casanovas, 1928

Antenor Orrego, 1928

Oswald de Andrade, 1928

Manoel Bomfim, 1929

Prudente de Moraes Neto, 1932

Ribeiro Couto, 1932

Srgio Buarque de Holanda, 1936

Srgio Buarque de Holanda, 1936

Afrnio Coutinho, 1969

Antonio Candido, 1993

INTRODUCTION BY MARI CARMEN RAMREZ

Jos Mart, 1875

David Alfaro Siqueiros, 1921

Ricardo Rojas, 1924

Carlos Mrida, 1926

Mart Casanovas, 1927

Jos Clemente Orozco, 1926

Joaqun Torres-Garca, 1941

Jaime Torres Bodet, 1928

Eduardo Abela, 1928

Carlos Enrquez, 1929

Eduardo Avils Ramrez, 1929

Jos Antonio Ramos, 1929

Ral Roa, 1929

Francisco Ichaso, 1929

Jorge Maach, 1929

Luis Felipe No, 1961