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Series Editor's Preface

Blackwell Companions to Art History is a series of edited collections designed to cover the discipline of art history in all its complexities. Each volume is edited by specialists who lead a team of essayists, representing the best of leading scholarship, in mapping the state of research within the subfield under review, as well as pointing toward future trends in research.

A Companion to Modern and Contemporary Latin American and Latina/o Art offers a new and insightful consideration of the art of this geographical region and its diasporas. The chapters combine to show the ways in which the established division of epochs in the histories of Euro‐American modern and contemporary art both converge with and vary from Latin American art.

This volume is divided into five chronological sections, followed by one dedicated to methodological approaches and debates. Each section signals major shifts in how art was positioned with regard to questions of national and ethnic identity, cosmopolitan modernisms and international art circuits, revolutionary movements, development, Cold War politics, and globalization. As a consequence, we see that Latin American Art can neither be collapsed into nor fully separated from Western canonical histories of modernism nor can it remain remote from global histories of the twentieth century in general.

Together, these essays combine to provide a new and thought‐provoking revision of our conception and understanding of Modern and Contemporary Latin American and Latina/o Art that will be essential reading for students, researchers, and teachers working on the history, theory, and practice of illustration, and in related fields. A Companion to Modern and Contemporary Latin American and Latina/o Art is a very welcome addition to the series.

Dana Arnold, 2021