The World · 05

Latin America

Modernism was never a one-way export from Europe. These artists remake selfhood, revolution, race, landscape, participation and memory from Latin American experience.

01Diego RiveraHistory on the wall, built for a public.02Doris SalcedoAbsence is given weight, scale and duration.03Fernando BoteroVolume as a way of seeing power.04Frida KahloThe self becomes the battlefield.05Lygia ClarkThe artwork leaves the wall and enters the participant.06Rufino TamayoModern painting absorbs myth without surrendering to illustration.07Tarsila Do AmaralBrazilian modernism learns to digest Europe.08Wifredo LamSurrealism returns to the plantation.