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This book was published in conjunction with the launch of the Digital Archive of the International Center for the Arts of the Americas on January 19, 2012. http://icaadocs.mfah.org

PUBLICATIONS DIRECTOR: Diane Lovejoy

EDITORIAL MANAGER: Melina Kervandjian

COVER AND BOOK DESIGN: HvADesign, New York Henk van Assen with Loide Marwanga

INDEX: J. Naomi Linzer Indexing Services

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Cover illustration: Rafael Alberti, letter (detail) to León Ferrari, Rome, Italy, April 1965. Personal archive of León Ferrari, Buenos Aires, Argentina. [SEE DIGITAL ARCHIVE 743697 (http://icaadocs.mfah.org/icaadocs/THEARCHIVE/FullRecord/tabid/88/doc/743697/language/en-US/Default.aspx)]

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Resisting categories: Latin American and/or Latino? / organized by Héctor Olea, Mari Carmen Ramírez, Tomás Ybarra-Frausto ; with document introductions by María C. Gaztambide ; edited by Héctor Olea and Melina Kervandjian.

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—(Critical documents of 20th-century Latin American and Latino art ; v. I)

Summary: “This anthology of more than 165 seminal writings by influential twentieth- and twenty-first-century artists and critics who explore and challenge complex definitions of what it means to be ‘Latin American’ or ‘Latino’ is designed to be an indispensable tool for the study of Latin American and Latino art” —Provided by publisher.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-300-14697-4 (hardback)

1. Art, Latin American.2. Hispanic American art.
I. Ramírez, Mari Carmen, 1955– editor of compilation.
II. Ybarra-Frausto, Tomás, 1938– editor of compilation.
III. Olea, Héctor, editor of compilation.
IV. Gaztambide, María C., writer of added commentary.
V. Kervandjian, Melina, editor.

N6502.R47 2012
704.03’68—DC23           2011053252