Toward the preservation of a heritage : Latin American and Latino art in the midwestern United States /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Herrera, Olga U.
Corporate Author:	University of Notre Dame. Institute for Latino Studies
Other Authors:	Sorell, V. A. (Victor A.), Cardenas, Gilberto
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Notre Dame, IN : Institute for Latino Studies, [2008]
Subjects:	Art, Latin American > Appreciation > Middle West. Hispanic American art > Appreciation > Middle West. Hispanic American art > Exhibitions. Art, Latin American > Exhibitions.

Table of Contents:

Latin American art at US midwestern world expositions, 1893-1904
Immigration and settlement : establishing communities in the Midwest, 1900s-1910s onwards
The 1920s : Mexicanidad and the Midwest
The 1930s : Mexican artists in the United States
The early 1940s : looking at the Western Hemisphere anew
The mid-1940s to early 1960s : artists joining academia and establishing first commercial galleries
The 1940s and 1960s : a new demographic shift, Puerto Rico and Cuba
The mid-1960s : the foundations of a Midwest Latino art
The late 1960s and early 1970s : the contemporary mural movement
The mid- to late 1970s : towards the creation of a Latino art infrastructure
The 1980s : new art organizations, new art spaces, blockbuster exhibitions, and multiculturalism
The 1990s : asserting a Pan-Latino identity
Globalization and the new millenium.