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Paintings at an Exhibition: 1966: The Yale-Texas Exhibition of Latin American Art 1800–1965
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2022
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Most latinamericanists will be interested and some fascinated by the aesthetic import of this epoch-making exhibit, jointly organized and presented by the Yale University Art Gallery and the University of Texas Art Museum. The purpose of this brief statement is to indicate some of its more important repercussions on the social scientist and historian which have potential research value. The first and obvious value lies in the fact that the catalogue presents in one compact volume all of the outstanding stylistic developments in painting, and to a lesser extent in architecture and engraving, from early Independence times to the present day. From a purely documentary point of view, excepting the few authentic, extant architectural remains, painting is the only medium that gives visual expression to the developments in the first half of the 19th century; so that the exhibition provides a basic research tool towards determining what the graphic representation of the socio-political developments of the period were. Even for the later nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this concentrated panorama supplies us with representative perceptions of how Latin Americans conceptualized themselves and their cultural traditions. We base our remarks on the paintings themselves and on an excellent representative catalogue. Catlin, director of the exhibit, with his collaborators (Grieder, Davidson, Deredita, and Faulhaber) will soon begin work on a scholarly volume which will interrelate the aesthetic developments with the social, economic and political developments of Latin American history in a thoroughgoing study.
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Art of Latin America since Independence consisting of almost 400 pieces from sketches to frescoes has been exhibited in the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, and the University of Texas Art Museum this spring. From July 2nd to August 7th it will be at the San Francisco Museum of Art; from August 27th to September 30th it will show in the La Jolle Museum of Art; and it is scheduled for the Isaac Delgado Meseum of Art, New Orleans, in late October. After that tentative arrangements have been made for a show in the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.
Unpublished series of essays discussed at symposium held March 2-5, 1965, Yale University.