Editors’ Introduction: Christianity and Latin American Art

2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald R. Bernier ◽  
Rachel Hostetter Smith
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Los Angeles ◽  
Latin American ◽  
American Art ◽  
Latin American Art ◽  
The Arts ◽  
History Of Art ◽  
History Of

‭This brief introduction discusses the need for scholars to turn their attention to the intersections between art and Christianity in Latin America, and traces the origins of this special double-issue of Religion and the Arts to a one-day scholarly symposium entitled “Christianity and Latin American Art: Apprehension, Appropriation, Assimilation.” This symposium was sponsored by the Association of Scholars of Christianity in the History of Art (ASCHA), and held at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles, California, in February 2012.‬

The First History of Latin-American Art: The Second Volume

1952 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 149-168
Author(s):  
Robert C. Smith
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
American Art ◽  
Spanish American ◽  
Latin American Art ◽  
Major Work ◽  
Gradual Development ◽  
History Of ◽  
Extended Review

In the Issue of January, 1946, the editor of THE AMERICAS published in the form of an article an extended review of mine of a book that had appeared the year before. This was the first volume of the Historia del arte hispanoamericano, written by Diego Angulo Iniguez and Enrique Marco Dorta. Now, five years later, I have been invited to review for the same journal the second volume of this monumental work. It is not often that such a privilege is accorded and I am duly grateful for this opportunity to continue the consideration of a major work of Spanish and Spanish American scholarship, which in its gradual development is bound to be increasingly a subject of prime interest and usefulness to all who are concerned with the culture of Latin America.

Latinoarte: information on Latin American art

1995 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 8-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elsa Barberena
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
American Culture ◽  
American Art ◽  
Latin American Art ◽  
Latin American Culture

Latin American culture is very rich, yet there is insufficient documentation on Latin American art, and much of the documentation which does exist is not adequately covered by the major art indexes. A number of magazines have set out, especially since the 1940s, to disseminate information about Latin American art, but most have been short-lived. The LATINOARTE project, based in the Facultad de Filosofía y Letras at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), aims to develop and to network a database including citations to documentation available in 62 libraries and information centres inside and outside Latin America. Already, some 1,500 records are available on contemporary Latin American art. (The edited text of a paper presented to the IFLA Section of Art Libraries at the IFLA General Conference at Havana, August 1994.)

The Latin American art market: literature and perspectives

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 239-276 ◽  
Author(s):  
Urbi Garay
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
American Art ◽  
Art Market ◽  
Latin American Art ◽  
Positive Real ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Art Collectors ◽  
The Arts ◽  
New Research ◽  
Practical Implications

Objective The purpose of this paper is to present the progress and trends of the literature on art as an investment and to outline potential research lines to be developed. Design/methodology/approach This work gathers, analyses and critically discusses the attributes of investments in art in general, and in Latin American art in particular. Findings Most studies report that art (art in general, and Latin American in particular) has offered relatively low but positive real returns, which have tended to be below those offered by stocks and similar to those realized by bonds. Art has a low correlation with other investments. Research limitations and implications The literature on the attributes of Latin American art as an investment is limited and new research would help to close the knowledge gap with respect to this segment of the art market as it continues to grow. Practical implications Similarly to the research carried out into other segments of the art market, studies on Latin American art suggest that the works of art are worth more, ceteris paribus: the more renowned the artist, the larger the work, whether they were executed in oil, and if they were auctioned at Sotheby’s or Christie’s. The paper also details a series of practical implications for those who participate in the art market. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is the first exhaustive review of the literature on the attributes of Latin American art as an investment. The findings of this study are useful for academics, art collectors, auction houses, gallerists and others who take part in the arts market.

scholarly journals On the Colonial Formation of Comparison: The Virgin of Chiquinquirá, The Virgin of Guadalupe and Cloth

1999 ◽  
Vol 21 (74-75) ◽  
pp. 51 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Cummins
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Comparative Method ◽  
American Art ◽  
Religious Movement ◽  
Latin American Art ◽  
Virgin Of Guadalupe ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Creation ◽  
American Artists

The studies of the history of Latin American art have used the comparative method while focusing on the period of evangelization and considering the European parameters of art as the models used by the first American artists. Cummins takes distance from this method which places the American artists at considerable disadvantage. Cummins studies the Colombian devotion of the Virgin of Chiquinquirá, one of the most studied and documented events in Hispanic America. He compares it to the creation and development of the Virgin of Guadalupe in Mexico. By studying the Mexican descriptions of the apparitions and the forging of the image, he discovers that it directly influenced the consolidation of the Colombian devotion. According to Cummins, the parallelisms between the Mexican and the Colombian myths reveal, among other issues, that both represent a national religious movement opposed to the Peninsular Spaniards and with an impact beyond the Creoles that embraced and adopted the image.

Documenting Latin American art at the Museum of Modern Art Library

2005 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 33-36
Author(s):  
Taína Caragol
Keyword(s):  
Latin American ◽  
Art History ◽  
Modern Art ◽  
American Art ◽  
Museum Of Modern Art ◽  
Latin American Art ◽  
History Of ◽  
Geopolitical Region ◽  
Art Community ◽  
American Art History

This article traces the history of the Latin American holdings of the Museum of Modern Art Library, one of the first institutions outside Latin America to start documenting the art of this geopolitical region, and one of the best research centers on modern Latin American art in the world. This success story dates back to the thirties, when the Museum Library began building a Latin American and Caribbean collection that currently comprises over 15,000 volumes of catalogues and art books. The launch of various research tools and facilities for scholars and the general public in recent years also shows the Museum’s strong commitment not only towards Latin American art history but also to the present and the future of the Latino art community.

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