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As the concepts of home and nation are called into question, where do you position yourself and your work between the poles of the global and the local. What has been the impact of these forces on your work and its place within the larger frame of reference. Nor did I anticipate that my training in art theory and modern art would define me as a Latin Americanist or that most of the articles I would be asked to write and the lectures I would be requested to give would be on the ill-defined subject of Latin American art and culture. In a so-called postnational era, I never assumed that my nationality would so determine - and restrict - what I was assumed to be capable of doing. Nevertheless, I embraced my newly adopted field with enthusiasm.

The Museum is closed during all University holidays. . Smith Collection of Western American Art Contemporary Latin American Art Medieval Art William J. Michener Collection of Twentieth-Century American Art Ongoing, Harry Ransom Center, 21st and Guadalupe Assembled by the renowned author James A. Smith Collection of Western American Art Ongoing, Harry Ransom Center, 21st and Guadalupe Capturing the frontier spirit of discovery and expansion, the C.

. By focusing on art in the rigorous manner proposed by Morais, avoiding national divisions and organizing an expressive fabric in terms of aspects, it attempted to establish an identifiable configuration. But Mercosur itself is only a regional fraction of Latin America. With the addition of Bolivia, Chile and Venezuela, the selection logic becomes more tenuous and results in a fragmentation of Latin America based on the predisposition of some governments to sign the respective trade documents. Thus this Biennial in fact seems to replace the old identifiable criteria of ethnic group and nationality by the criteria of production and consumption.
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