Latin American Art at The Museum of Modern Art

The Power of the Canon
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-0-415-84366-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 453 g

Reihe: Routledge Research in Museum Studies

This study sheds light on an as yet unstudied aspect of the Museum of Modern Art’s (MoMA) preeminent role in establishing the definition of the problematic term "Latin American art" in the United States. In examining shifting categorization of Latin American works according to stylistic and geographic taxonomies, we gain a greater understanding of the organization of the Museum’s collections as a whole during the 1940s and 1950s. This book is the first to document these institutional precedents, crucial for the understanding of the articulation of a Modernist canon and its contested legacy today.

The MoMA is widely recognized as the preeminent institution that defined twentieth-century art through its collection – shaping our understandings of the history of art, with its hierarchies and exclusions, as they sediment over time. MoMA’s lesser-known holdings of art from Latin America shed light on a key period which created stylistic categories that have since come to be accepted by many today as the Modernist canon. MoMA’s early collection displays suggest ways in which artists from areas of the world formerly excluded from collections can be incorporated within today’s increasingly global museums. Its approach prefigured attitudes adopted by several museums since the 2000s, creating geographically-defined curatorial positions as a way to redress gaps in collecting art from Latin America and other areas of the world. In this book, author Miriam M. Basilio Gaztambide offers a closer study of the history of collection displays as a means to understand canon-formation in modern art museums.

This work will be of interest to those researching Latin American and modernist art, art galleries, and museum studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

M. Basilio Gaztambide, Miriam

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Ausstellungskataloge, Museumsführer
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Museum Collection Displays and Canon-Formation; 1. “An evolutionary pedigree” –Modern Art in the 1930s-40s; 2. “National Representations and International Standards” The Latin-American Collection of the Museum of Modern Art (1943) and The First General Exhibition of the Museum Collection of Painting and Sculpture (1945); 3. “Geographic Distributions”: The Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, 1954-1955; 4. A “Missing Link”: Elaine L. Johnson’s Latin American Program and the 1967 Collection Exhibition; 5. Revising Modernism? The Place of Latin American Art in MoMA’s Collection Galleries, 2004-2023

Über Autor(innen)

Miriam M. Basilio Gaztambide is Associate Professor of Art History and Museum Studies at New York University. She was co-curator of Tempo (MoMA QNS, 2002), MoMA at El Museo: Latin American and Caribbean Art from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art (2003), and Fighting Fascism: Visual Culture of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) (NYU Kimmel Windows, 2023). Her book Visual Propaganda, Exhibitions, and the Spanish Civil War (Routledge) was published in 2013.