Preface. Painting's near-death experience
Early modernism. The mountain reborn / Dr. Atl
Voices and demons / Armando Reverón
Regional autonomy / Pedro Figari
The avant-garde of the 1920s. Modern art week: complete program, municipal theater, São Paulo, Brazil, February 1922
Remembering modern art week / Emiliano Di Cavalcanti
Anthropophagite manifesto / Oswald de Andrade
Manifesto of Martin Fierro / Oliverio Girondo
The great serpent / Xul Solar
Manifesto of the Grupo Minorista, Havana, May 7, 1927
Criollismo and its virtual interpretation / Carlos Enríquez
Politically committed muralism and indigenism. Manifesto of the union of Mexican workers, technicians, painters, and sculptors / David Siqueiros
The revolution in painting / Diego Rivera
The syndicate of painters and sculptors / José Clemente Orozco
Religion, revolution, and painting: an interview with Francisco Goitia / Anaya Sarmiento
Art, revolution, and decadence / José Carlos Mariátegui
In defense of indigenist painting / José Sabogal
The new realism / Antonio Berni
Surrealism and related modes. On painting in Peru / César Moro
An approach to a reality that we do not understand yet: an interview with Leonora Carrington / Hans Ulrich Obrist
Speaking of one of my paintings / Frida Kahlo
Genesis of La jungla: an interview with Wifredo Lam / Antonio Núñez Jiménez
Notes on photomontage / Grete Stern
A world created by magic: excerpts from a conversation with André Pierre / Donald Cosentino
Constructive and informalist abstraction. The new art of America / Joaquín Torres-García
Inventionist manifesto, Salon Peuser, Buenos Aires, March 1946
Madí manifesto / Gyula Kosice
Madí and concrete-invention / Gyula Kosice
Art has to be an adventure: an interview with Fernando de Szyszlo / M. Isabel Guerra
Developing a conscience as a painter / Alejandro Obregón, as told to Fausto Panesso
The necessary pluralism in Latin American art / Manuel Felguérez
Midcentury architectural projects. Le corbusier, the education ministry, and Pampulha / Oscar Niemeyer
Landscape art and paintings: an interviews with Roberto Burle Marx / Ana Rosa de Oliveira
Integration of the arts / Carlos Raúl Villanueva
What is the social significance of modern architecture in Mexico? / Juan O'Gorman
Emotional architecture / Matías Goeritz
Geometric, optical, and kinetic art. Statements on colorhythms and sculpture / Alejandro Otero
Chance, reality, and perception / Jesús Rafael Soto
Reflections on color / Carlos Cruz-Diez
GRAV manifesto: transforming the current situation in plastic art / Julio Le Parc
Neoconcrete art in Brazil. Neo-concrete manifesto / Ferreira Gullar
Beasts [Bichos] / Lygia Clark
My experiences with dance / Hélio Oiticica
Postwar figuration and versions of pop. The cactus curtain / José Luis Cuevas
A conversation about Alberto Gironella / Moderated by Rita Eder
The so-called "new figuration" of Argentina / Luis Felipe Noé
Marta Minujín against the easel
Furniture and bad taste: an interview with Beatriz González / Katherine Chacón
Painting violence: an interview with Fernando Botero / Valeria Shapira
Political conceptualism, 1960s-1970s. Insertion into ideological circuits / Cildo Meireles
Seventeen questions regarding art / Horacio Zabala
The No Manifesto of Tribu No / Cecilia Vicuña
Statements on crosses and feminism / Lotty Rosenfeld
Can art change the world? An art interview with Alfredo Jaar / Cristián Warnken
The Catherwood Project / Leandro Katz
Trends of the 1970s and early 1980s. In the city of angels, chameleons, and phantoms: Asco, a case study of Chicano art in urban tones (or, Asco was a four-member word) / Harry Gamboa Jr.
Art and politics of the poster: an interview with Rupert García
Getting to painting through theater: an interview with Guillermo Kuitca / Graciela Speranza
The weight of an island: an interview with Eugenio Dittborn and Roberto Merino
Toward a new century. The personal and the political: an interview with Felix González-Torres / Robert Storr
Printing shadows: an interview with Graciela Sacco / Marguerite Feitlowitz
Art, ideology, and violence: a conversation with Doris Salcedo and Rocío Londoño Botero
Shades of the tropics: a conversation with Beatriz Milhazes and Arto Lindsay
Auotconstrucción, or self-construction / Abraham Cruzvillegas
Real and virtual light of relational architecture: an interview with Rafael Lozano-Hemmer / Geert Lovink
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