Date of Award
2022
Document Type
Thesis - Open Access
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Contemporary Art
First Advisor
Maria Sancho-Arroyo
Second Advisor
Agnes Berecz
Abstract
This thesis aims to identify and analyze the main factors behind the increased visibility of Latin American Modern art today. I intend to examine the role played by American institutions, private collectors, and the top auction houses and how they are driving awareness in the global art market. The research will focus on artists whose works were made from the 1920s through mid-1940s and are currently breaking records in the auction world. These are the same artists that are being showcased in prominent private collections and American museums, which in turn serves as a way of validating those artists as part of the Western art history canon, after many decades of being left aside.
Recommended Citation
Festa, Sofía, "Looking South: The Increased Visibility of Modern Latin American Art" (2022). MA Theses. 116.
https://digitalcommons.sia.edu/stu_theses/116
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