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Book SynopsisSurveys how U.S. museums exhibited Latin American art in the 1960s, focusing on rhetoric, aesthetics, and Cold War politics.
Trade Review“Cold War in the White Cube, let me repeat it, is a vital contribution. . . . It is also a book that is efficiently illustrated, elegantly printed, and very well written.”
—Jan Baetens Leonardo Reviews
“Exciting and exemplary scholarship. . . .Highly sophisticated in its methodology, clear in its language and exposition, fair in its conclusions, and committed overall to uncovering new knowledge, Cold War in the White Cube is a model of progressive scholarship.”
—Leonard Folgarait,author of Painting 1909: Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein, Henri Bergson, Comics, Albert Einstein, and Anarchy
“Delia Solomons’s brilliant book follows a deep intellectual rigor to weave a fascinating account of the surge in attention and efflorescence of Latin American art exhibitions and publications in the United States in the fractious period of 1959-1968 that has been largely forgotten. Beautifully written and meticulously researched in archives in the United States, Argentina, and Brazil, Solomons’s book engages artists’ voices to counterpoint disparate visions, constructed narratives, and portrayals by US critics and cultural workers of Latin American art at the time.”
—Olga U. Herrera,author of American Interventions and Modern Art in South America
