Mariola V. Alvarez is Assistant Professor at Temple University. Ana M. Franco is Associate Professor at Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá.
...contributes to a careful reconsideration of the links between this region and the United States and Europe. ...The compilation successfully accomplishes its main aim to expand outside the borders of Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, and Venezuela. The essays it includes are interested in areas often disregarded within larger studies of Latin America, such as Costa Rica, Colombia, Bolivia, Peru, and Ecuador. The volume achieves this expansion across a huge range of territories, even exploring how diasporic communities employed abstract art, moving the discussion of Latin American art away from a few cities that dominate scholarship, thus further decentering histories of abstract art. --Latin American Research Review