List of Illustrations  ix

About the Series  xi

Preface and Acknowledgments  xiii

Translators Note  xvii

Abbreviations  xix

Introduction  1

1. Modern Art on the Margins of Peronism  25

2. Proclamations and Programs During the Revolucion Libertadora  55

3. The New Art Scene  91

4. The Avant-Garde as Problem  119

5. The Decentering of the Modernist Paradigm  163

6. Strategies of Internationalization  189

7. The Avant-Garde Between Art and Politics  243

Conclusions  281

Notes  291

Bibliography   373

Index  397

“Giunta carefully defines the polemics in transforming Buenos Aires into an internationally recognized center for artistic production and avant-garde culture. . . . Recommended.”—L. E. Carranza, Choice

“Giunta has done an admirable job of organizing information from myriad sources. Her close focus on the art world reflects the paradox of Argentine identity: are Argentinians Europeans stranded in the New World or creators of a new nation? They can’t decide, and neither can the country’s artists.”—Alfred Mac Adam, ArtNews

“Well written and thoroughly documented, this book is an invaluable tool for those interested in the evolution of contemporary art in Latin America (engulfed as it was in the love triangle Buenos Aires-Paris-New York). The choice of artists and images is superb. . . . Avant-Garde, Internationalism, and Politics is not just a book about history, it offers a fascinating explanation of the current state of Argentine and Latin American art in the era of globalization.”—Georgina Jiménez, Latin American Review of Books

“Meticulously researched and engagingly written. . . .”—Robin Adèle Greeley, Oxford Art Journal

“Duke University Press has performed an important service to the readers of Latin American art history and to historians in general by publishing a translation.”—Donna J. Guy, American Historical Review

“Giunta carefully defines the polemics in transforming Buenos Aires into an internationally recognized center for artistic production and avant-garde culture. . . . Recommended.”—L. E. Carranza, Choice

“Giunta has done an admirable job of organizing information from myriad sources. Her close focus on the art world reflects the paradox of Argentine identity: are Argentinians Europeans stranded in the New World or creators of a new nation? They can’t decide, and neither can the country’s artists.”—Alfred Mac Adam, ArtNews

“Well written and thoroughly documented, this book is an invaluable tool for those interested in the evolution of contemporary art in Latin America (engulfed as it was in the love triangle Buenos Aires-Paris-New York). The choice of artists and images is superb. . . . Avant-Garde, Internationalism, and Politics is not just a book about history, it offers a fascinating explanation of the current state of Argentine and Latin American art in the era of globalization.”—Georgina Jiménez, Latin American Review of Books

“Meticulously researched and engagingly written. . . .”—Robin Adèle Greeley, Oxford Art Journal

“Duke University Press has performed an important service to the readers of Latin American art history and to historians in general by publishing a translation.”—Donna J. Guy, American Historical Review

“How can artists and institutions from peripheral countries participate in global conversations?Mexican muralists, Brazilian avant-gardists, and the São Paulo Biennale have done it. Yet none have done so with as sophisticated a strategy as those who remade the visual and multimedia arts scene in 1960s Buenos Aires. Offering the most thoroughly documented and innovative analysis of that period, Andrea Giunta eloquently renews Latin American art criticism.”—Néstor García Canclini

“Avant-Garde, Internationalism, and Politics is a precise and intelligent book. It is also profoundly original in its reconstruction of the public debate of the 1960s. Andrea Guinta has investigated the links between the artists and the revolutionary horizon, as well as those between the artists and establishment institutions. With this dual perspective, she follows in a fascinating way the processes of the internationalization of Latin American art. Her book is indispensable to understanding the political and aesthetic ideologies of the period.”—Beatriz Sarlo, author of Jorge Luis Borges: A Writer on the Edge

“Andrea Giunta is one of the sharpest minds working in the post–World War II cultural field anywhere, and Avant-Garde, Internationalism, and Politics is a work of amazing breadth, originality, and complexity. It touches on many facets of U.S. cultural life as well as on the many ways a Latin American country tried to find a suitable postwar identity in a ruthless historical moment. With this book, Giunta is redefining the parameters not only of art history in Argentina but of contemporary cultural discourses in general.”—Serge Guilbaut, author of How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art: Abstract Expressionism, Freedom, and the Cold War

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