Main entry:

Goldman, Shifra M., 1926-2011.

Title & Author:

Dimensions of the Americas : art and social change in Latin America and the United States / Shifra M. Goldman.

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1994.

Description:

xxiv, 494 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. In the public eye. Siqueiros and three early murals in Los Angeles -- Mexican muralism : its influence in Latin America and the United States -- Resistance and identity : street murals of occupied Aztlan -- Elite artists and popular audiences : the Mexican front of cultural workers -- 2. Multiples. Painters into poster makers : a conversation with two Cuban artists -- Master prints from Puerto Rico : linoleum and woodcuts by three generations of artists -- A public voice : fifteen years of Chicano posters -- 3. Women speaking. Six women artists of Mexico -- "Portraying ourselves" : contemporary Chicana artists -- Mujeres de California : Latin American women artists -- Ana Mendieta : a return to natal earth -- Isabel Ruiz : the mythopoetics of anguish -- 4. Facing big business and the state. Art and politics in the 1980s -- Dissidence and resistance : art in Chile under the dictatorship -- Rewriting the history of Mexican art : the politics and economics of contemporary culture -- Mexican and Chicano workers in the visual arts -- La casa de cambia / the money exchange -- Looking a gift horse in the mouth -- Metropolitan splendors -- Three thousand years of Mexican art -- 5. Latin American art in the United States. Latin American visions and revisions -- The booming (spirit) of Latin America -- Un punta en común / common ground : Juan Edgar Aparicio and Lisa Kokin -- Clima natal : world of fantasy, dream of reality -- Social illuminations : the art of Guillermo Bert -- How Latin American artists in the U.S. view art, politics, and ethnicity in a supposedly multicultural world -- 6. Nationalism and ethnic identity. Response : another opinion on the state of Chicano art -- Inside/outside mainstream -- The iconography of Chicano self-determination : race, ethnicity, and class -- Homogenizing Hispanic art -- Under the sign of the pava : Puerto Rican art and populism in international context -- Living on the fifth floor of the four-floor country -- The manifested destinies of Chicano, Puerto Rican, and Cuban artists in the United States.

Summary:

This volume presents an overview of the social history of modern and contemporary Latin American and Latino art. This collection of thirty-three essays focuses on Latin American artists throughout Mexico, Central and South America, the Caribbean, and the United States. The author provides a chronology of modern Latin American art; a history of "social art history" in the United States; and synopses of recent theoretical and historical writings by major scholars from Mexico, Cuba, Brazil, Peru, Uruguay, Chile, and the United States. In her essays, she discusses a vast array of topics including: the influence of the Mexican muralists on the American continent; the political and artistic significance of poster art and printmaking in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and among Chicanos; the role of women artists such as Guatemalan painter Isabel Ruiz; and the increasingly important role of politics and multinational businesses in the art world of the 1970s and 1980s. She explores the reception of Latin American and Latino art in the United States, focusing on major historical exhibits as well as on exhibits by artists such as Chilean Alfredo Jaar and Argentinean Leandro Katz. Finally, she examines the significance of nationalist and ethnic themes in Latin American and Latino art.

Resources:
Table of contents
Publisher description

ISBN:

0226301230 (alk. paper)
9780226301235 (alk. paper)
0226301249 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780226301242 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Art, Latin American 20th century.
Hispanic American art 20th century.
Art and society America History 20th century.
Art latino-américain 20e siècle.
Art latino-américain (États-Unis) 20e siècle.
Art et société Amérique Histoire 20e siècle.
Art and society
Art, Latin American
Hispanic American art
Kunst
Kunstsoziologie
Lateinamerikaner
Sozialer Wandel
Beeldende kunsten.
Kunstsociologie.
Kunstreceptie.
Maatschappijkritiek.
Spaanse Amerikanen.
Art et État États-Unis 20e siècle.
Art et État Amérique latine 20e siècle.
America
Lateinamerika
USA
Visual arts

Form/genre:

Aufsatzsammlung.
History
Books.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 325254
Call No.: 325254
Copy: 1
Status: Available