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This is a comprehensive bibliography compiled by the graduate students who organized the exhibition and wrote essays and researched blog posts to accompany it. Our hope is that anyone who might be interested in learning more about modern Latin American art and the specific themes that informed our conceptual approach to the exhibition will find these resources to be a useful starting point.

Animals

Bowles, Paul, Francisco Calvo Serraler, and Edward J. Sullivan. Claudio Bravo: Paintings and Drawings (1964/2004). New York: Rizzoli, 2005.

Bowles, Paul and Mario Vargas Llosa. Claudio Bravo: Paintings and Drawings. New York: Abbeville Press, 1997.

Bravo, Claudio. Claudio Bravo: Recent Paintings and Drawings. New York: Marlborough Gallery, 1981.

Caillois, Roger. "Mimicry and Legendary Psychasthenia." Translated by John Shepley. October 31 (1984): 16-32.

De Escragnolle Taunay, Alfonso. Zoologia fantástica do Brasil (séculos XVI e XVII). São Paulo: Companha Melhoramenos de São Paulo, 1934.

Derby, Lauren. "Bringing the Animals Back In: Writing Quadrupeds into the Environmental History of Latin America and the Caribbean." History Compass 9:8 (2011): 602-621.

Derrida, Jacques. "The Animal That Therefore I Am (More to Follow)." Translated by David Wills. Critical Inquiry 28:2 (2002): 369-418.

Elias, Ann. "Camouflage and Surrealism" WLA: War, Literature, and the Arts Journal 24 (2012): 1-25.

Few, Martha and Zeb Tortorici, editors. Centering Animals in Latin American History. Durham: Duke University Press, 2013

Franklin, Adrian. Animals and Modern Culture: A Sociology of Human-Animal Relations in Modernity. London: Sage, 1999.

Instituto Moreira Salles. Marcello Grassmann: Desenhos. São Paulo: Instituto Moreira Salles, 2005.

Laudanna, Mayra. Marcello Grassmann. São Paulo: SESI-SP Editora, 2013.

Oles, James. "The Howl and the Flame: Tamayo's Wartime Allegories." In Tamayo: A Modern Icon Reinterpreted, edited by Diana C. Du Pont, 291-342. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 2007.

Parika, Jussi. Insect Media: An Archaeology of Animals and Technology. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2010.

Parkinson, Gavin. "Emotional Fusion with the Animal Kingdom: Notes Toward a Natural History of Surrealism." In The Art of Evolution: Darwin, Darwinisms, and Visual Culture, edited by Barbara Larson and Fae Brauer, 262-281. Hanover: Dartmouth College Press, 2009.

Seppälä, Marketta, Jari-Pekka Venhala, and Linda Weintraub, eds. Animal. Anima. Animus. Pori: Pori Art Museum, 1998.

Thompson, Kirrily. "Theorizing Rider-Horse Relations: An Ethnographic Illustration of the Centaur Metaphor in the Spanish Bullfight." In Theorizing Animals: Rethinking Humanimal Relationships, edited by Nik Taylor and Taina Signal, 221-253. Boston: Brill, 2011.

University of Iowa Museum of Art. Mauricio Lasansky: A Retrospective Exhibition of His Prints and Drawings. Iowa City: University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1976.

Wolfe, Cary. Before the Law: Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013.

Rothfels, Nigel, ed. Representing Animals. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002.

Artists

Antonio Berni

Ramírez, Mari Carmen and Marcelo E. Pacheco. Antonio Berni: Juanito and Ramona. Exh. cat. Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and MALBA--Fundación Costantini. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013.

Claudio Bravo

Bowles, Paul, Francisco Calvo Serraler, and Edward J. Sullivan. Claudio Bravo: Paintings and Drawings (1964/2004). New York: Rizzoli, 2005.

Bowles, Paul and Mario Vargas Llosa. Claudio Bravo: Paintings and Drawings. New York: Abbeville Press, 1997.

Bravo, Claudio. Claudio Bravo: Recent Paintings and Drawings. New York: Marlborough Gallery, 1981.

Gego

Ramírez, Mari Carmen, ed. Gego: Between Transparency and the Invisible. Exh. cat. Houston: The Museum of Fine Arts, 2005.

Marcello Grassmann

Instituto Moreira Salles. Marcello Grassmann: Desenhos. São Paulo: Instituto Moreira Salles, 2005.

Laudanna, Mayra. Marcello Grassmann. São Paulo: SESI-SP Editora, 2013.

Liliana Porter

Pérez-Barreiro, Gabriel, Ursula Davila-Villa, and Gina McDaniel Tarver. The New York Graphic Workshop, 1964-1970. Exh. cat. Austin: Blanton Museum of Art The University of Texas at Austin, 2009.

Emilio Renart

Laurenzi, Adriana. "Emilio Renart: Arte y Vida, Integradas." Accessed December 14, 2014. http://www.generacionabierta.com.ar/notas/53/renart.html

Masotta, Oscar. “The Argentine Image-Makers.” In Listen Here Now! Argentine Art of the 1960s: Writings of the Avant-Garde, 175-180. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2004.

Squirru, Rafael. “Spectrum of Styles in Latin America.” Art in America 52, no. 1 (1964): 81-86.

Victor Vazquez

Ferrer, Elizabeth. “Victor Vazquez.” New York, 1993. Accessed November 15, 2014, www.victorvazquezpr.com.

Picart, Caroline. “Victor Vazquez: When the Box Becomes a Hat the Man Becomes a Sea – A Body to Body (dislocation, encounter, displacement).” Seraphin Gallery, 12-18-09. Accessed November 15, 2014, www.victorvazquezpr.com.

Sánchez, Suset. “Nomad Tales of a Hybrid and Subversive Body.” Accessed November 15, 2014, www.victorvazquezpr.com.

General Resources on Latin America

Adams, Beverly. Constructing A Poetic Universe: The Diane and Bruce Halle Collection of Latin American Art. Exh. cat. Houston: The Museum of Fine Arts, 2007.

Barnitz, Jacqueline. Twentieth-Century Art of Latin America. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001.

Basilio, Miriam et al. Latin American and Caribbean Art: MoMA at El Museo. Exh. cat. New York: El Museo del Barrio and The Museum of Modern Art, 2004.

Castedo, Leopoldo, translated and edited by Phyllis Freeman. A History of Latin American Art and Architecture: From Pre-Columbian Times to the Present. New York: Frederick A. Praeger Inc., 1969.

Chase, Gilbert. Contemporary Art in Latin America: Painting, Graphic Art. Sculpture, Architecture. New York: The Free Press, 1970.

Contemporary Art in Latin America. London: Black Dog Publishing, 2010.

Cullen, Deborah, e. Arte [no es] Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas 1960-2000. Exh. cat. New York: El Museo del Barrio, 2008.

Déa, Ariane Dalla. “Representations of Resistance in Latin American Art.” Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 39, No. 5 (2012): 5-9.

Derby, Lauren. "Bringing the Animals Back In: Writing Quadrupeds into the Environmental History of Latin America and the Caribbean." History Compass 9:8 (2011): 602-621.

Fox, Claire F. Making Art Panamerican: Cultural Policy and The Cold War. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2013.

Goldman, Shifra M. Dimensions of the Americas: Art and Social Change in Latin America and in the United States. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.

Gómez-Quintero, Raysa E. Amador and Mireya Pérez Bustillo. The Female Body: Perspectives of Latin American Artists. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.

Gomez Sicre, Jose. “Trends—Latin America,” Art in America, Vol. 47 No. 3 (1959): 22-23.

Herzog, Hans-Michael, Sebastián López, and Felicitas Rausch, eds. The Hours: Visual Arts of Contemporary Latin America. Dublin: Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2005.

Catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition, “The Hours: Visual Arts of Contemporary Latin America,” shown at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. October 5, 2005 – January 15, 2006.

Lucie-Smith, Edward. Latin American Art of the 20^th Century. London: Thames and Hudson Ltd., 1993.

Martin, Susan and Alma Ruiz. The Experimental Exercise of Freedom. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: The Museum of Contemporary Art, 1999.

Squirru, Rafael. “Spectrum of Styles in Latin America.” Art in America 52, no. 1 (1964): 81-86.

Caribbean

Basilio, Miriam et al. Latin American and Caribbean Art: MoMA at El Museo. Exh. cat. New York: El Museo del Barrio and The Museum of Modern Art, 2004.

Derby, Lauren. "Bringing the Animals Back In: Writing Quadrupeds into the Environmental History of Latin America and the Caribbean." History Compass 9:8 (2011): 602-621.

Pérez, Rolando. Severo Sarduy and the Ne-Baroque Image of Thought in the Visual Arts. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2012.

Sarduy, Severo. La simulación. Caracas: Monte Avila Editores, 1982.

Central America

Adams, Beverly. Constructing A Poetic Universe: The Diane and Bruce Halle Collection of Latin American Art. Exh. cat. Houston: The Museum of Fine Arts, 2007.

Déa, Ariane Dalla. “Representations of Resistance in Latin American Art.” Latin American Perspectives, Vol. 39, No. 5 (2012): 5-9.

Gómez-Quintero, Raysa E. Amador and Mireya Pérez Bustillo. The Female Body: Perspectives of Latin American Artists. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.

Lavery, Jane. “The Representation of the Female Body in the Multimedia Works of Regina José Galindo.” Bulletin of Latin American Research, Vol. 31, No. 1 (2012): 51-64.

Oles, James. "The Howl and the Flame: Tamayo's Wartime Allegories." In Tamayo: A Modern Icon Reinterpreted, edited by Diana C. Du Pont, 291-342. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 2007.

Rosenthal, Stephanie, ed. Ana Mendieta: Traces. London: Hayward Publishing, 2013.

South America

Alonso, Rodrigo. “Art and Technology in Argentina: The Early Years.” Leonardo Electronic Almanac 13, no. 4 (April 2005). Accessed December 8, 2014. http://www.roalonso.net/en/pdf/arte_y_tec/leonardo_origins.pdf.

Borges, Jorge Luis and Margarita Guerrero. The Book of Imaginary Beings. Translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni. Middlesex: Penguin, 1974.

Bowles, Paul, Francisco Calvo Serraler, and Edward J. Sullivan. Claudio Bravo: Paintings and Drawings (1964/2004). New York: Rizzoli, 2005.

Bowles, Paul and Mario Vargas Llosa. Claudio Bravo: Paintings and Drawings. New York: Abbeville Press, 1997.

Bravo, Claudio. Claudio Bravo: Recent Paintings and Drawings. New York: Marlborough Gallery, 1981.

Chervin, Catalina. Catalina Chervin. Exh. cat. Buenos Aires: El Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, 1998.

De Escragnolle Taunay, Alfonso. Zoologia fantástica do Brasil (séculos XVI e XVII). São Paulo: Companha Melhoramenos de São Paulo, 1934.

Dreishpoon, Douglas, Andreas Huyssen, Terence Riley, Graciela Speranza, and Olga Viso, contributors. Guillermo Kuitca: Everything, Paintings and Works on Paper 1980 – 2008. Buffalo: The Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, 2009. Catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition, “Guillermo Kuitca: Everything, Paintings and Works on Paper 1980 – 2008,” shown at Abright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; and Miami Art Museum, Florida. October 9, 2009 – January 17, 2010.

Elliott, David, ed. Argentina, 1920-1994: Art from Argentina. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1994.

Giunta, Andrea. Avant-Garde, Internationalism, and Politics: Argentine Art in the Sixties. Translated by Peter Kahn. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007.

Gómez-Quintero, Raysa E. Amador and Mireya Pérez Bustillo. The Female Body: Perspectives of Latin American Artists. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2002.

Harrison, Marguerite Itamar. “Envisioning the Body Politic through Dense Layers of Paint: The Art of Adriana Varejão.” Chasqui Vol. 37, No. 1 (May, 2008): 66-78.

Katzenstein, Inés, ed. Listen Here Now! Argentine Art of the 1960s: Writings of the Avant-Garde. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2004.

New Art of Argentina: An Exhibition Organized by Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and the Visual Arts Center, Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires. Exh. cat. Buenos Aires: Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, 1964.

Noorthoorn, Victoria. Beginning with a Bang! From Confrontation to Intimacy : An Exhibition of Argentine Contemporary Artists, 1960-2007. Exh. cat. New York: Americas Society, 2007

Ramírez, Mari Carmen, and Marcelo E. Pacheco. Antonio Berni: Juanito and Ramona. Exh. cat. The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and MALBA - Fundación Costantini. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2013

Sterling, Susan Fisher, Berta Sichel and Franklin Espath Pedroso. Virgin Territory: Women, Gender, and History in Contemporary Brazilian Art. Exh. cat. Washington, D.C.: National Museum of Women in the Arts, 2001.

University of Iowa Museum of Art. Mauricio Lasansky: A Retrospective Exhibition of His Prints and Drawings. Iowa City: University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1976.

North America

Oles, James. "The Howl and the Flame: Tamayo's Wartime Allegories." In Tamayo: A Modern Icon Reinterpreted, edited by Diana C. Du Pont, 291-342. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 2007.

Pérez-Barreiro, Gabriel, Ursula Davila-Villa, and Gina McDaniel Tarver. The New York Graphic Workshop, 1964-1970. Exh. cat. Austin: Blanton Museum of Art The University of Texas at Austin, 2009.

University of Iowa Museum of Art. Mauricio Lasansky: A Retrospective Exhibition of His Prints and Drawings. Iowa City: University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1976.

Decade

1960s

Giunta, Andrea. Avant-Garde, Internationalism, and Politics: Argentine Art in the Sixties. Translated by Peter Kahn. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007.

Katzenstein, Inés, ed. Listen Here Now! Argentine Art of the 1960s: Writings of the Avant-Garde. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2004.

Pérez-Barreiro, Gabriel, Ursula Davila-Villa, and Gina McDaniel Tarver. The New York Graphic Workshop, 1964-1970. Exh. cat. Austin: Blanton Museum of Art The University of Texas at Austin, 2009.

Premio Nacional e Internacional Instituto Torcuato Di Tella 1964. Exh. cat. Buenos Aires: Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, 1964.

Premio Nacional e Internacional Instituto Torcuato Di Tella 1965. Exh. cat. Buenos Aires: Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, 1965.

1980s

Rosenthal, Stephanie, ed. Ana Mendieta: Traces. London: Hayward Publishing, 2013.

Medium

Drawing

Ramírez, Mari Carmen, ed. Re-Aligning Vision: Alternative Currents in South American Drawing. Exh. cat. Austin: Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, 1997.

University of Iowa Museum of Art. Mauricio Lasansky: A Retrospective Exhibition of His Prints and Drawings. Iowa City: University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1976.

Performance

Cullen, Deborah, e. Arte [no es] Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas 1960-2000. Exh. cat. New York: El Museo del Barrio, 2008.

Martin, Susan and Alma Ruiz. The Experimental Exercise of Freedom. Exh. cat. Los Angeles: The Museum of Contemporary Art, 1999.

Printmaking

Pérez-Barreiro, Gabriel, Ursula Davila-Villa, and Gina McDaniel Tarver. The New York Graphic Workshop, 1964-1970. Exh. cat. Austin: Blanton Museum of Art The University of Texas at Austin, 2009.

University of Iowa Museum of Art. Mauricio Lasansky: A Retrospective Exhibition of His Prints and Drawings. Iowa City: University of Iowa Museum of Art, 1976.

Theory

Bennett, Jane. Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2010.

Deleuze, Gilles, and Felix Guattari. A Thousand Plateaus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia. Translated by Brian Massumi. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1987.

Derrida, Jacques. "The Animal That Therefore I Am (More to Follow)." Translated by David Wills. Critical Inquiry 28:2 (2002): 369-418.

Indra, Doreen, ed. Engendering Forced Migration: Theory and Practice. New York: Berghahn Books, 1999.

Franklin, Adrian. Animals and Modern Culture: A Sociology of Human-Animal Relations in Modernity. London: Sage, 1999.

Kay, Diana. “The Politics of Gender in Exile.” Sociology, Vol. 22, No. 1 (February, 1988): 1-21.

Latour, Bruno. Reassembling the Social: An Introduction to Actor-Network-Theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Latour, Bruno. “Some Experiments in Art and Politics.” E-Flux Journal, Vol. 23 (March, 2011): 1-7.

Morton, Timothy. The Ecological Thought. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2012.

Parkinson, Gavin. "Emotional Fusion with the Animal Kingdom: Notes towards a Natural History of Surrealism." In The Art of Evolution: Darwin, Darwinism, and Visual Culture, edited by Barbara Larson and Fae Brauer, 262-288. London: University Press of New England, 2009.

Roniger, Luis and James N. Green. “Introduction: Exile and the Politics of Exclusion in Latin America.” Latin American Perspectives Vol. 34, No. 4, Exile and the Politics of Exclusion in Latin America (July, 2007): 3-6.

Rowe, William and Teresa Whitfield. “Thresholds of Identity: Literature and Exile in Latin America.” Third World Quarterly, Vol. 9, No. 1, The Politics of Exile (Jan., 1987): 229-245.

Thompson, Kirrily. "Theorizing Rider-Horse Relations: An Ethnographic Illustration of the Centaur Metaphor in the Spanish Bullfight." In Theorizing Animals: Rethinking Humanimal Relationships, edited by Nik Taylor and Taina Signal, 221-253. Boston: Brill, 2011.

Wolfe, Cary. Before the Law: Humans and Other Animals in a Biopolitical Frame. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2013.