Sur moderno: recorridos de la abstracción (2019) [Spanish]

“Sur moderno: Journeys of Abstraction explores the abstract and Concrete art movements that flourished in South America from the mid-1940s to the late 1970s. Published in conjunction with a major exhibition, this richly illustrated volume features work by artists from across the region, including Lidy Prati, Tomás Maldonado, Rhod Rothfuss, Lygia Clark, Hélio Oiticica, Jesús Rafael Soto, and Alejandro Otero. Sur moderno highlights a selection of works gifted to MoMA by Patricia Phelps de Cisneros between 1997 and 2016—a donation that has transformed the Museum’s holdings of Latin American art, enabling a more comprehensive representation of the region’s integral role in the development of modern art.”

With contributions by Glenn D. Lowry, Irene V. Small, María Amalia García, Monica Amor and Inés Katzenstein.

Edited by Inés Katzenstein and María Amalia García with Karen Grimson and Michaëla de Lazace
Publisher Museum of Modern Art, New York, Oct 2019
ISBN 9781633450981
224 pages
via El ojo motor

Exh. reviews: Roberta Smith (New York Times, 2019), Edward J. Sullivan (ARTnews, 2019).

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Marta Traba: Art of Latin America, 1900-1980 (1994) [Spanish, English]

“Marta Traba, one of Latin America’s most controversial art critics, examines the works of over 1,000 artists from the first 80 years of the 20th century. This book is an indispensable reference for anyone interested in studying the evolution of Latin American art.”

Publisher Inter-American Development Bank, Washington, DC, 1994
ISBN 0940602717, 9780940602717
xiv+178 pages
via publisher

Review: Carolyn Kay (Canadian J LatAm Caribbean Studies, 1994).

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Arte de América Latina, 1900-1980 (Spanish, 1994, 21 MB)
Art of Latin America, 1900-1980 (English, 1994, 22 MB)

Marta Traba: Arte latinoamericano actual (1972) [Spanish]

In this book, Marta Traba examines how the growing influence of American art shaped the art of Latin America during the 1950s and 1960s, and how Latin American artists have both succumbed and resisted the effects of this influence.

Publisher Ediciones de la Biblioteca Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas, 1972
Nuevos Planteamientos series, 10
117 pages
via ICAA Docs

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