Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword (Inge Reist)
Introduction: Acquisitive Passions: Observations on Collecting the Art of the Americas in the United States (Edward J. Sullivan)
1. Evolving Taxonomies at The Museum of Modern Art in the 1930s and ’40s and the Definitions of the “Latin American Collection” (Miriam Margarita Basilio)
2. Hot Styles and Cold War: Collecting Practices at MoMA and Other Museums in the Sixties (Delia Solomons)
3. The Philadelphia Story (Joseph Rishel)
4. Cargadores: Collecting Rivera, Mexican Modernism, and Bearing the Burdens of Historiography (Anna Indych-López)
5. An American Museum: Representing the Arts of Mexico at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (Ronda Kasl)
6. Building a Model of Diversity: Grace McCann Morley and Collecting Modern Latin American Art in San Francisco (Berit Potter)
7. Inverted Strategies: An Exhibition as Matrix for a Permanent Collection (Mari Carmen Ramírez)
8. Beyond Mexico: The Evolution of the Phoenix Art Museum’s Latin American Collection (Vanessa K. Davidson)
9. Roberta and Richard Huber’s Adventures in Collecting (Suzanne Stratton-Pruitt)
10. Expanding Paradigms: The Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros and the Changing Landscape of Latin American Art (Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro)
11. Collecting Latin American Art in the United States from New Spain to Today: A Life’s Story (Estrellita B. Brodsky)
Notes
References
List of Contributors
Index