Art Museums of Latin America

Structuring Representation

Michele Greet, Gina McDaniel Tarver

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9781351777902
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: History of Art

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Acknowledgements
• Contributors
• Introduction
• PART I Art Museums and State Politics
• PART II Art Museums as Constructions of Modernity
• PART III Local Dynamics of Internationalism
• PART IV National and Regional Perspectives from the United States
• PART V Reimagining the Art Museum
• Index