Constructing Latin America : architecture, politics, and race at the Museum of Modern Art / Patricio del Real.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Del Real, Patricio, 1966- author.

Contributor:

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Imperialism and architecture.

Architecture--Latin America--Exhibitions.

Architecture.

Architecture--Political aspects--United States.

Exhibitions--Political aspects--United States.

Exhibitions.

Architecture--Political aspects.

Exhibitions--Political aspects.

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)--Exhibitions.

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.).

Latin America.

United States.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

xi, 306 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2022]

Summary:

"In the interwar period and immediately following World War II, the U.S. government promoted the vision of a modern, progressive, and democratic Latin America and worked to cast the region as a partner in the fight against fascism and communism. This effort was bolstered by the work and products of many institutions, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Using modern architecture to imagine a Latin America under postwar U.S. leadership, MoMA presented blockbuster shows, including Brazil Builds (1943) and Latin American Architecture since 1945 (1955), that deployed racially coded aesthetics and emphasized the confluence of "Americanness" and "modernity" in a globalizing world. Delving into the heated debates of the period and presenting never-before-published internal documents and photos from the museum and the Nelson A. Rockefeller archives, Patricio del Real is the first to fully address MoMA's role in U.S. cultural imperialism and its consequences through its exhibitions on Latin American art and architecture."-- Publisher's description.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Philip Johnson versus Diego Rivera and the Battle for an American Interior

ch. 2 Fighting for the "New Architecture" in Mexico

ch. 3 Brazil Builds and the Search for a "Latin American Spirit"

ch. 4 Our Man in MoMA: Rene d'Harnoncourt, the "Mixed-Blood," and the "Cholo"

ch. 5 Emergent Civilizations: U.S. "Urban Jungles" and Latin American "Weak Forms"

ch. 6 Henry-Russell Hitchcock Takes Latin America to the Brink

ch. 7 Latin America Takes Command.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0300254563

9780300254563

OCLC:

1267751076

Publisher Number:

99992327126