Latin American Art of the 20th Century
Thames & Hudson Ltd. | 1993 | ISBN: 0500202605 | English | 220 pages | PDF | 43 MB

This comprehensive survey introduces an exceptionally rich, fascinating and complex art, that has gained great popularity in recent years. Edward Lucie-Smith discusses major subjects and issues: Magic Realism, Expressionism and other concepts shared with Latin American literature; the great muralists Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros and Jose Clemente Orozco; the interaction of politics, society and art; the continuing interest in folk art; and the dialogue between avant-garde European and North American movements and "indigenist" thinking in the work of artists such as Wifredo Lam, Matta, Rufino Tamayo and Frida Kahlo. Many other artists, including a large number ofwomen, from the 1900s to the present day, are included in this compelling look at a great body of brilliantly original and imaginative art.