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Front MatterSource: Art Journal, Vol. 51, No. 4, Latin American Art (Winter, 1992), pp. 1-108Published by: College Art AssociationStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/777269 .
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Museum Studies: Applied Arts
Museum Studies: Costume & Textiles
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FIT., located in the heart of Manhattan, is a specialized college under the program of the State University of New York.
The college offers three graduate pro- grams: Gallery and Retail Art Administra- tion; Museum Studies: Applied Arts; and Museum Studies: Costume and Textiles. In all programs, FIT. takes advantage of the cultural richness of New York-its museums, galleries, libraries, archives, and professional and industrial resources- to create curricula in which the scholarly and the pragmatic have their place and strike a balance between the academic and the applied.
Gallery and Retail Art Administration offers professional training in the special- ized skills required by the art market. The curriculum concentrates on the private art market as it relates to careers in art galleries, auction houses, establish- ments dealing in antiques and objects, and related businesses in the sale and exchange of art. While addressing the relationship between art objects and the practical world, the curriculum calls upon the strengths of the history courses from the Museum Studies program.
The Museum Studies curricula are structured to develop professionals with interdisciplinary backgrounds in conserva- tion, preservation, historical research, and historical styles. The tightly interwoven pair of M.A. programs offers a choice between studies centered on costume and textiles or on the applied (i.e., decorative) arts. Within both, students have the further option of pursuing either a curato- rial or a conservation emphasis.
The tuition for full-time students who qualify as New York State residents is $4,000.00 per academic year; for non- residents, $7,316.00 per academic year. Limited tuition assistance is available. FIT. is an equal opportunity institution.
For further information please call or write:
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Published bi College Art Association
ff inter 1992 lol. 51 No. 4
Guest Editors Shifra M11. Goldman
and Luis Carnnitzer
art journal
Latin American Art Executive Editor Lenore Malen
Managing Editor Virginia Wageman Editor M. E. D. Laing Reviews Editor Ann Lee Morgan Associate Editor/Advertising Nancy B. Rotenier
Design Harakawa Sisco Production Russell Hassell Editorial Board Judith K. Brodsky, Cynthia Carlson, Samella Lewis, Irving Sandler, Gerald Silk, Robert Storr, Paul Tucker, Martha Wilson
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COVER: Juan Francisco Elso, Por Am6rica (detail). See p. 36, fig. 5.
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Recent Latin American Art: Herman Braun-Vega, Guillermo G6mez- Pefia, Marina Gutierrez, Patricia Israel, Ricardo Rodriguez Brey, Nelbia Romero, Jonas dos Santos, John Valadez, Carlos Zerpa, edited by Luis Camnitzer 6
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The Columbus Quincentenary and Latin American Art: A Critical Evaluation Shifra M. Goldman and Luis Camnitzer 16
Translating 1492: Mexico's and Spain's First National Celebrations of the "Discovery" of the Americas Oscar E. Vdzquez 21
Africa in the Art of Latin America Gerardo Mosquera 30
The Virgin of Guadalupe: Symbol of Conquest or Liberation? Jeanette Favrot Peterson 39
"Civilizing" Rio de Janeiro: Four Centuries of Conquest through Architecture David Underwood 48
Postmodern Disalignments and Realignments of the Center/ Periphery Nelly Richard 57
Beyond "the Fantastic": Framing Identity in U.S. Exhibitions of Latin American Art Mari Carmen Ramirez 60
Recapturing History: The (Un)official Story in Centemporary Latin American Art Susana Torruella Leval 69
exhibtion eview
Gertrude Kaisebier; Helen Levitt, reviewed by Gretchen Garner 83
Chiefly Feasts, reviewed by Allen Wardwell 91
Sbookml rviews
Albert Boime, The Magisterial Gaze; Elizabeth Johns, American Genre Painting; John Wilmerding, American Views, reviewed by David Tatham 95
Norma Broude, Impressionism; Hollis Clayson, Painted Love; Richard Kendall and Griselda Pollock, eds., Dealing with Degas, reviewed by Eunice Lipton 99
Timothy W. Luke, Shows of Force; Ivan Karp and Steven D. Lavine, eds., Exhibiting Cultures; Philip Fisher, Making and Effacing Art, reviewed by Howard Risatti 103
Jacqueline Vaught Brogan, ed., Part of the Climate, reviewed by Alan Michael Parker lo6
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?ROSSGURRENTS OF MODERNISM FOUR LATIN AMERICAN PIONEERS
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With more than 100 illustrations, most in color, Crosscurrents of Modernism follows-in Spanish and English-the biographical and artistic paths of four pioneers, Joaquin Tornes-Garcfa, Wilfredo Lam, Matta, and Diego Rivera. Their fusion of Latin American themes with the visual or formalist aspects of modernism affected the global development of modernist and postmodernist art. Like many other expatriates in Europe, these four artists at first embraced already defined modernist styles-Cubism, Neoplasticism, Surrealism-but then, turning toward their homes, redefined them in different ways. 93 color, 35 b&w illus. 336 pp. Cloth: 1-56098-205-5 $60.00 Paper: 1-56098-206-3 $29.95
NOBLE HERITAGE Five Centuries of Portraits from the Hosokawa Family Jared Lubarsky Introduction by Alan Fern This book features sixteen portraits and such objects as tea instruments, armor, and Noh costumes owned by the influential house of Hosokawa, which played an illustrious role in Japanese history from the family's beginning in the 14th century, as vassals to the Ashikaga shogunate, to the present. 36 color, 12 b&w illus. 112 pp. Paper: 1-56098-209-8 $19.95
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THE ART OF THE CONSERVATOR Edited by Andrew Oddy Experts directly involved in the conservation of eleven important works of art in varying media (metal, wood, glass, ceramics, painting, textiles) describe the fusing of technology, art history, and craftsmanship involved in conserving such works as a Leonardo da Vinci cartoon, Michelangelo's frescoes in the Sistine Chapel, the Piranesi vase, the Sutton Hoo helmet, and other objects. 50 color, 120 b&w illus. 208 pp. Cloth: 1-56098-229-2 $39.95
PHOTO STORY Selected Letters and Photographs of Lewis W. Hine Edited by Daile Kaplan Foreword by Berenice Abbott Hine (1874-1940), an American photographer whose name is synonymous with images of the human condition, developed the "photo story" concept and successfully captured the reality behind significant social issues of the early 20th century-immigrants at Ellis Island, child laborers, European war refugees, and industrial workers. These letters reveal Hine's methodology and his pioneering efforts in photojournalism. 26 b&w illus. 256 pp. Cloth: 1-56098-169-5 $34.95
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