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Latin American painting

Ades, Dawn. Art in Latin America. Yale, 1989. Exhibition catalog of representational art from 19th and 20th centuries.

Bayon, Damian, and Murillo Marx. History of South American Colonial Art and Architecture: Spanish South America and Brazil. Rizzoli, 1992. Broad coverage of colonial painting; illustrated.

Burke, Marcus B. Treasures of Mexican Colonial Art: The Davenport Museum of Art Collection. Museum of New Mexico Press, 1997. Thorough study of the development of Mexican colonial art.

Chaplik, Dorothy. Latin American Art: An Introduction to Works of the 20th Century. McFarland, 1988. Works of modern Latin American artists are described and critiqued.

Day, Holliday T., and others. Art of the Fantastic: Latin America, 1920-1987. Indianapolis Museum of Art, 1987. Catalog of an exhibition highlighting a popular type of Latin American painting.

Fane, Diana, ed. Converging Cultures: Art & Identity in Spanish America. Abrams, 1996. Selection of scholarly essays examining the development of colonial art in Peru and Mexico.

Fletcher, Valerie J. Crosscurrents of Modernism: Four Latin American Pioneers: Diego Rivera, Joaquin Torres-Garcia, Wifredo Lam, Matta. Smithsonian, 1994. Catalog of an exhibition focusing on four modern painters.

Folgarait, Leonard. Mural Painting and Social Revolution in Mexico, 1920-1940: Art of the New Order. Cambridge University Press, 1998. Comprehensive study of an influential movement.

Gruzinski, Serge. Painting the Conquest. Flammarion & Cie, 1992. Lavishly illustrated study of illuminated manuscripts produced in colonial Mexico.

Kubler, George, and Martin Sebastian Soria. Art and Architecture in Spain and Portugal and Their American Dominions, 1500-1800. Penguin, 1959. Classic study.

Kunzle, David. The Murals of Revolutionary Nicaragua, 1979-1992. University of California Press, 1995. Documents the rapidly disappearing murals associated with the Sandinista revolution.

Lemos, Carlos, ed. The Art of Brazil. Harper & Row, 1983. Comprehensive survey of sculpture, painting, and architecture.

Lucie-Smith, Edward. Latin American Art of the 20th Century. Thames & Hudson, 1993. Comprehensive coverage of developments in Latin America.

Mosquera, Gerardo, ed. Beyond the Fantastic: Contemporary Art Criticism from Latin America. MIT Press, 1996. Wide-ranging collection of essays by scholars from Latin America exploring the diversity of Latin American art forms.

Rasmussen, Waldo, ed., and others. Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century. Abrams, 1993. Catalog of an extensive exhibition of painting and sculpture held at the Museum of Modern Art.

Sullivan, Edward J., ed. Latin American Art in the Twentieth Century. Phaidon, 1996. Lavishly illustrated, concise survey.

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