Book Reviews: Latin American Art -- Dimensions of the Americas: Art and Social Change in Latin America and the United States by Shifra M. Goldman

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"Until a coherent, detailed, and socially framed history of modern Latin American, Brazilian and Caribbean art becomes available in English," Shifra Goldman states, "the very comprehension of a modern Latin American art history, except in fragments, was (and is) difficult" (pp. xxi, xv). Dimensions of the Americas is not, as the author takes pains to underline, that missing comprehensive history; rather, it is an excellent "introduction to the problems" (p. xvi). This wide-ranging collection of writings is an important contribution to that necessary construction of our still fragmentary picture of Latin American and Latino art history. As such, it stands alongside such catalogues as that …