Hemispheric Integration: Materiality, Mobility, and the Making of Latin American Art

Exploring art made in Latin America during the 1930s and 1940s, this edition argues that Latin America's position within a global economic order was crucial to how art from that region was produced, collected, and understood. The author analyzes art's relation to shifting trade patterns, geopolitical realigments, and industrialization to suggest that it was in this specific era that the category of Latin American art developed its current deffinition. Focusing on artworks by Latin American modernists such as David Alfaro Siqueiros, Joaquín Torres‑García, Candido Portinari, and Mario Carreño, Vicario emphasizes the materiality and mobility of art and their connection to commerce, namely the exchange of raw materials for manufactured goods from Europe and the United States. An exeptional examination of transnational culture, this book provides a new model for the study of Latin American art.