Extensively revised and expanded to include more artists and new illustrations, this critically acclaimed, award-winning book is the essential overview of the art of contemporary Latin America.

List of Illustrations Preface to the Second Edition (Jacqueline Barnitz) Preface to the Second Edition (Patrick Frank) Acknowledgments Introduction: An Overview of the Nineteenth Century Chapter 1. Modernismo and the Break with Academic Art, 1890–1934 Chapter 2. The Avant-Garde of the 1920s Chapter 3. Social, Ideological, and Nativist Art: The 1930s, 1940s, and After Chapter 4. Surrealism, Wartime, and New World Imagery, 1928–1964 Chapter 5. Torres-García's Constructive Universalism and the Abstract Legacy Chapter 6. New Museums, the São Paulo Biennial, and Abstract Art Chapter 7. Functionalism, Integration of the Arts, and the Postwar Architectural Boom Chapter 8. Geometric, Optical, and Kinetic Art from the 1950s through the 1970s Chapter 9. Brazilian Concrete and Neoconcrete Art and Their Offshoots Chapter 10. Neofiguration, Pop, and Environments: The 1960s and 1970s Chapter 11. Graphic Art, Painting, and Conceptualism as Ideological Tools Chapter 12. Some Trends of the 1980s and Early 1990s Chapter 13. Toward a New Century Notes Selected Bibliography Illustration Credits Index