Latin American Art at the Museum of Modern Art: The Power of the Canon

by Miriam Basilio

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is widely recognized as the preeminent institution that defined twentieth-century art through its collection - shaping our understandings of the history of art, with its hierarchies and exclusions, as they sediment over time. MoMA's lesser-known holdings of art from Latin America shed light on a key period which created stylistic categories that have since come to be accepted by many today as the Modernist canon...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415843669
• ISBN13: 9780415843669
• Release Date: August 2025
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 160 Pages