A Principality of its Own

40 Years of Visual Arts at the Americas Society

Edited by José Luis Falconi

Edited by Gabriela Rangel

Foreword by Patricia Phelps de Cisneros

    Acknowledgments

    Foreword
    Patricia Phelps de Cieneros

    Introduction: Tract of Time
    Gabriela Rangel M.

    Part I: Institutional History

    Latin American Art at the Americas Society: A Principality of its Own
    Beverly Adams

    Looking South: Strategic Visions, Tactical Revisions
    Luís Pérez Oramas

    Exhibitions and Narrations: Argentine ARt at the CIAR/AS
    Andrea Giunta

    The Americas Society and the Invention of the History of Brazilian Photography
    Paulo Herkenhoff

    Between the National and Transnational: Aspects of Exhibiting Modern and Contemporary Mexican Art at the Americas Society
    Anna Indych-López

    Pan-American Visions and the Exhibition of Colonial Art at the Americas Society 1976-1997
    Sofia Sanabrais

    Part II: Artist's Project

    Incas Room
    A project by Alexander Apóstol

    Part III: Moments, Media, and Themes

    About Thirty Years Ago: Michael Snow's 1972 Solo Exhibition
    John Pruitt

    Resources of the Real: Latin American Photography at the Americas Society, 1967-2006
    José Luis Falconi

    Media, Sculpture, Myth
    Alex Alberro

    A Situation of Time: Despite Geometry, Beyond the Universal
    Nicolas Guegnini

    Reticulárea: Module and Version
    Gabriela Rangel M.

    Part IV: Memoirs and Critiques

    The Museo Latinoamericano and MICLA
    Luis Camnitzer

    Backyard's Memory
    Cecilia Brunson

    On the Same Track: The Americas Society and the Development of Latin American Art History in the United States
    Thomas B.F. Cummins, interviewed by José Luis Falconi

    Opening Doors to Vast and Varied Worlds: Latin American Art and the Role of the Americas Society in Post-NAFTA Era
    Mary Schneider Enriquez

    Afterword: Tractable Times
    José Luis Falconi

    Book Contributors Exhibition Timeline

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José Luis Falconi is Art Forum Curator at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University.

Gabriela Rangel is Director of Visual Arts at the Americas Society.