Informal empire: the process of exhibiting Latin American art under the good neighbor policy. The case of the MoMA collection, 1943
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https://doi.org/10.1344/BA2022.84.1008Keywords:
política de buena vecindad, exposiciones internacionales, arte latinoamericanoAbstract
This article examines how the North American good neighbor policy built a corpus of Latin American artworks to be exhibited in the United States. We analyze the office lead by Nelson Rockefeller between 1940-1945 and the role of intellectuals and academics who performed two central tasks in the informal American empire conquest: collecting and exhibiting. In particular, we study the actions that built the MOMA Latin American Art Collection in 1943. In this context, we analyze the task that Lincoln Kirstein and Grace Morley carried out, with particular attention to their perceptions and evaluations of Latin American art.
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