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Latin American modern: an ambitious exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts examined major themes in Latin America's midcentury avant-garde.(Report From Houston)
Art in America
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October 1, 2004|
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Generous in its scope, innovative in its nonlinear structure, "Inverted Utopias" at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), claimed to be the first comprehensive exhibition in the U.S. to rigorously study the relatively unexplored phenomenon of the 20th-century Latin American avant-garde. The exhibition title derives from a utopian design and manifesto of 1936 by famed Uruguayan artist Joaquin Torres-Garcia that depicts an inverted map of South America. Under the Southern Cross constellation, the southernmost tip of the continent is at the top of the map--on top of the ...
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