Title & Author:

A principality of its own : 40 years of visual arts at the Americas Society / edited by José Luis Falconi & Gabriela Rangel.

Publication:

New York, NY : Americas Society ; [Cambridge, Mass.] : Distributed by Harvard University Press, 2006.

Description:

301 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm

Notes:
Published by the Americas Society on the occasion of it's 40th anniversary, in conjunction with the Fundación Cisneros and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.
Published in conjunction with the Fundación Cisneros and the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.
Based on the 2005 exhibition Beyond Geography, created in celebration of the Americas Society's fortieth anniversary.
Includes bibliographical references and chronology.
Tract of time / Gabriela Rangel -- Latin American art at the Americas Society : a principality of its own / Beverly Adams -- Looking south : strategic visions, tactical revisions / Luis Pérez Oramas -- Exhibitions and narrations : Argentine art at the CIAR/AS / Andrea Giunta -- The Americas Society and the invention of the history of Brazilian photography / Paulo Herkenhoff -- Between the national and transnational : aspects of exhibiting modern and contemporary Mexican art at the Americas Society / Anna Indych-López -- Pan-American visions and the exhibition of colonial art at the Americas Society 1976-1997 / Sofia Sanabrais -- Incas room : a commission / Alexander Apostol -- About thirty years ago : Michael Snow's 1972 solo exhibition / John Pruitt -- Resources of the real : Latin American photography at the Americas Society, 1967-2006 / José Luis Falconi -- Media, sculpture, myth / Alexander Alberro -- A situation of time : despite geometry, beyond the universal / Nicolás Guagnini -- Reticulárea : module and version / Gabriela Rangel -- The Museo Latinoamericano and MICLA / Luis Camnitzer -- Backyard's memory / Cecilia Brunson -- On the same track : the Americas Society and the development of Latin American art history in the United States / Thomas B.F. Cummins, interviewed by José Luis Falconi -- Opening doors to vast and varied worlds : Latin American art and the role of the Americas Society in a post-NAFTA era / Mary Schneider Enriquez -- Tractable times / José Luis Falconi -- Exhibition timeline / Isabela Villanueva.
Includes text, in Spanish, of Gordon Matta-Clark's contribution to Movimiento por la Independencia Cultural Latino Americana's Contrabienal catalogue.
Includes essay by John Pruitt entitled: About thirty years ago, Michael Snow's 1972 solo exhibition.
Includes some facsims. of Spanish text.

Summary:

Includes a history of the Americas Society (formerly known as The Center for Inter-American Relations) with an emphasis on the visual arts program which comprises 4000 square feet of exhibition space and a series of programs open to the public at 680 Park Avenue in New York City.

ISBN:

1879128314 (paperback)
9781879128316 (paperback)

Subject:

Americas Society.
Art Latin America 20th century.
Art Amérique latine 20e siècle.
Art.
Manners and customs.
Visuelle Medien
Kunst
Ausstellung
Art, Latin American 20th century Exhibitions.
Art, Latin American 21st century Exhibitions.
Art, Canadian 20th century Exhibitions.
Latin America Social life and customs 20th century History Exhibitions.
Amérique latine Mœurs et coutumes 20e siècle Histoire Expositions.
Latin America.
Lateinamerika
New York (N.Y.)
Latin America Social life and customs 20th century Exhibitions.
Latin America Social life and customs 21st century Exhibitions.
Snow, Michael, 1928-

Form/genre:

Exhibition publications.
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
History.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Falconi, José Luis.
Rangel, Gabriela.
Americas Society.
Fundación Cisneros.
David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies.
Matta-Clark, Gordon, 1943-1978
Pruitt, John. About thirty years ago.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 251335
Call No.: N6502.5 .P75 2006
Status: Available