Blanton Museum of Art

by Perez-Barreiro, Gabriel

• ISBN13: 9780977145331
• ISBN10: 0977145336
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-03-01
• Publisher: Jack s Blanton Museum of Art

Summary

The Blanton Museum of Art's Latin American catalogue will be the first publication in the museum's history to present a complete and in-depth study of the institution's notable Latin American collection. The Blanton's holdings comprise one of the oldest, largest, and most comprehensive collections of modern and contemporary Latin American art in the country, and include works by many artists not represented elsewhere in U.S. collections. The collection contains more than 1,800 modern and contemporary paintings, prints, drawings, and sculptures, reflecting the great diversity of Latin American art and culture. More than six hundred artists from Mexico, South and Central America, and the Caribbean are represented in the collection. This beautifully illustrated catalogue features 102 artists from the Blanton's Latin American collection, such as Joaquín Torres-García, Julio Alpuy, Gonzalo Fonseca, Luis Felipe Noé, Rómulo Macció, Jorge de la Vega, Antonio Seguí, Luis Camnitzer, and Cildo Meireles. New and emerging artists such as Jorge Macchi and Cristián Silva are also represented. The catalogue includes essays and object entries by a host of distinguished contributing writers that provide an opportunity for new interpretation and insight into this significant collection, and the field of Latin American art in general.

Table of Contents

Index of Entries	6	(2)
Preface and Acknowledgments	8	(3)
Jessie Otto Hite
Introduction	11	(4)
Gabriel Perez-Barreiro
The Blanton Museum's Latin American Collection as an Educational Resource	15	(6)
Jacqueline Barnitz
Between Feedback and Activism	21	(10)
Luis Camnitzer
Engage Art from Modern Latin America	31	(10)
David Craven
Narrators, Scribes, and Strategists: Nine Writings in the Blanton Museum	41	(12)
Ticio Escobar
Modes of Abstraction, Models of Interpretation	53	(8)
Maria Gough
Noe, Porter, Marcaccio: In Praise of Complexity	61	(10)
Ines Katzenstein
Some Notes on Image and Text in the Latin American Collection of the Blanton Museum	71	(9)
Luis Enrique Perez Oramas
Selections from the Collection	80	(346)
About the Authors	426	(2)
Index of Artists	428