Later Americas
AP Art History Later Americas Resources
Overview
- Barnitz, Jacqueline. Twentieth-century Art of Latin America. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2001. Worldcat
- Sullivan, Edward J., ed. Latin American Art in the Twentieth Century. London: Phaidon Press, 1996. Worldcat
- Traba, Marta. Art of Latin America, 1900-1980. Washington, DC: Inter-American Development Bank and Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. Worldcat
Short primer on art of Indigenous Americas
Rebecca Bailey
Info on the Maya, Mayan Cosmovision and calendar
Rebecca Bailey
Overview
[Miguel Cabrera. c. 1750. Oil on canvas.]
Maria del Mar Gonzalez Gonzalez
Ray Hernández-Durán
Recommended reading(s)
Pierce, Donna. Painting a New World: Mexican Art and Life, 1521-1821. Denver: Frederick and Jan Mayer Center for Pre-Columbian and Spanish Colonial Art, Denver Art Museum, 2004. Worldcat
Oettinger Jr., Marion. Retratos: 2,000 Years of Latin American Portraits. New Haven: San Antonio Museum of Art and Yale University Press, 2004. Worldcat
[José María Velasco. 1882. Oil on canvas.]
[Frida Kahlo. 1939. Oil on canvas.]
Recommended reading(s)
Craven, David. Art and Revolution in Latin America. 1910-1990. New Haven, CN: Yale University Press, 2006. Worldcat
Tibol, Raquel. Frida Kahlo: An Open Life Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico, 1993. Worldcat
General Resources
Lindauer, Margaret A. Devouring Frida: The Art History and Popular Celebrity of Frida Kahlo Middletown, CT: Wesleyan U Press, 1999. Worldcat
Herrera, Hayden. Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo. New York: Harper & Row, 1983. Worldcat
Herrera, Hayden. “Frida Kahlo: Her Life, Her Art,” Art Forum 14:9 (1976), 38–44.
Documentary by Amy Stechler, The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo (2005).
[Wifredo Lam. 1943. Gouache on paper mounted on canvas.]
Recommended reading(s)
“Advanced Placement Art History Exam: The Jungle, Wifredo Lam,” MoMA Learning. Accessed April 23, 2015.
Stokes Sims, Lowery. Wifredo Lam and the International Avant-Garde, 1923-1982. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002. Worldcat
Traba, Marta. Art of Latin America, 1900-1980. Baltimore, MD: Inter-American Development Bank and The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. Worldcat
[Diego Rivera. 1947-1948. Fresco.]
Recommended reading(s)
Traba, Marta. Art of Latin America, 1900-1980. Baltimore, MD: Inter-American Development Bank and The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. Worldcat
