Art in Latin America : the modern era, 1820-1980 / Dawn Ades ... [et al.] ; translations of manifestos from spanish and portuguese by Polyglossia.

Incluye bibliograf��a.

Independence and its heroes -- Academies and historical painting -- Traveller-reporter artists and the empirical tradition in post-independence Latin America / by Stanton Loomis Catlin -- Nature, science and the picturesque -- Jos�� Mar��a Velasco -- Posada and the popular graphic tradition -- Modernism and the search for roots -- The Taller de gr��fica popular -- Indigenism and social realism -- Private worlds and public myths -- Arte mad��/arte concreto-invenci��n -- A radical leap / by Guy Brett -- History and identity.

This authoritative and beautiful book presents the first continuous narrative history of Latin American art from the years of the Independence movements in the 1820s up to the present day. Exploring both the indigenous roots and the colonial and post-colonial experiences of the various countries, the book investigates fascinating though little-known aspects of nineteenth and twentieth-century art and also provides a context for the contemporary art of the continent.