Readings in Latin American Modern Art

by Edited by Patrick Frank

• ISBN13: 9780300102550
• ISBN10: 0300102550
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2004-04-10
• Publisher: Yale University Press

Author Biography

Cover illustration: Xul Solar, detail of Drago (Dragon), 1927. Watercolor on paper, 10 x 12 5/8 in. (25.5 x 32 cm).

Table of Contents

The Cuban-Chinese Cook
Patrick Frank	ix
1. Early Modern Currents
Saturnino Herrán: "Our Gods" Mural Project
Jacinto Quirarte	3	(2)
Dr. Atl
MacKinlay Helm	5	(5)
Untitled Statements
Armando Reverón	10	(2)
Manifesto of Martin Fierro	12	(2)
Don Pedro Figari
Ricardo Güiraldes	14	(3)
Regional Autonomy
Pedro Figari	17	(2)
Emilio Pettoruti
Xul Solar	19	(3)
The Situation of the Modern Artist
Emilio Pettoruti	22	(2)
Anthropophagite Manifesto
Oswald de Andrade	24	(4)
Manifesto of the Grupo Minorista: Havana, 7 May 1927	28	(5)
2. Figural Realist Styles
Manifesto of the Union of Mexican Workers, Technicians, Painters, and Sculptors	33	(3)
Rockefellers Ban Lenin in RCA Mural and Dismiss Rivera	36	(7)
Diego Rivera's Mural in the Palace of Fine Arts
Rafael Ángel Herrerias	43	(5)
Orozco "Explains"
José Clemente Orozco	48	(3)
Francisco Goitia: Tata Jesucristo
Hayden Herrera	51	(3)
Los Tres Jircas (The Three Peaks)
Enrique López Albújar	54	(7)
Latin America Faces the Quincentenary: An Interview with Oswaldo Guayasamin
Fred Murphy	61	(6)
3. Fantasy and Surrealism in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Haitian Art...How It Started
DeWitt Peters	67	(6)
A Visit with Hector Hyppolite
Selden Rodman	73	(3)
A World Created by Magic: Excerpts from a Conversation with André Pierre
Edited by Donald Cosentino	76	(3)
Frida Kahlo's Bus Accident
Martha Zamora	79	(2)
Leonora Carrington
Marie-Pierre Colle	81	(5)
Two Theories of Contemporary Mexican Painting
Marta Traba	86	(5)
Syncretism and Syntax in the Art of Wifredo Lam
Lowery S. Sims	91	(12)
4. Major Architectural Projects
Aula Magna Hall
Paulina Villanueva	103	(2)
Olympic Stadium
Paulina Villanueva	105	(2)
Modernity in Mexico: The Case of the Ciudad Universitaria
Celia Ester Avredando Zambrano	107	(10)
Brasilia
Valerie Fraser	117	(18)
5. Non-Objective and Informalist Modes of Abstraction
The New Art of America
Joaquin Torres-Garcia	135	(7)
Inventionist Manifesto	142	(2)
The Founding of Madi
Gyula Kosice	144	(2)
Math Manifesto
Gyula Kosice	146	(2)
An Interview with Fernando de Szyszlo
Álvaro Medina	148	(6)
Alejandro Obregón
Marta Traba	154	(7)
6. Constructivist Of Neo-Concrete Art
GRAV Manifesto: Transforming the Current Situation in Plastic Art	161	(3)
Color and the History of Painting
Carlos Cruz-Diez	164	(2)
Reflections on Color
Carlos Cruz-Diez	166	(2)
Artist's Statement
Alejandro Otero	168	(2)
Serialization
Jesús Rafael Soto	170	(1)
Artist's Statement
Jesús Rafael Soto	171	(1)
Neo-Concrete Manifesto
Ferreira Gullax	172	(4)
Beasts [Bichos] 1960
Lygia Clark	176	(1)
Tropicália: March 4, 1968
Hélio Oiticica	177	(3)
"Tropicália"
Caetano Veloso	180	(2)
Afro-Brazilian Symbolism in the Art of Rubem Valentim
Henry John Drewal	182	(5)
7. Postwar Figural Art
The Cactus Curtain
José Luis Cuevas	187	(7)
Chaos as a Structure
Luis Felipe Noé	194	(5)
A Latin Answer to Pop
Jacqueline Barnitz	199	(4)
The Perils of Popularity: An Interview with Fernando Botero
Cristina Carrillo de Albornoz	203	(6)
The Death of a Mural Movement
Eva Cockcroft	209	(3)
An Interview with Luis Cruz Azaceta
Friedhelm Mennekes	212	(6)
In the Studio: Miguel Von Dangel
Ricardo Pau-Llosa	218	(5)
8. As a New Centerry Turns
Cries from the Wilderness
Lawrence Wechsler	223	(4)
Everyone Needs a Madonna: A Visit with Gonzalo Diaz	227	(3)
The Catherwood Project
Leandro Katz	230	(3)
Miami No Es Los Estados Unidos
Susan Valdés-Dapena	233	(4)
Miguel Ángel Rios: Epics from the Earth
Frederick Ted Castle	237	(5)
Impossible Weavings
Cecilia Vicuña	242	(5)
Nahum Zenff's Con Todo Respeto
Eduardo de Jesús Douglas	247	(3)
Marks of the Journey: Roberto Merino and Eugenio Dittborn	250	(7)
Bibliography	257	(10)
Index	267	(4)
Credits	271