VANGUARDISTAS - 100 Years of Latin American Women Artists

Latin America’s great women artists – Tarsila do Amaral, Frida Kahlo, Lygia Clark, Ana Mendieta and their fellow pioneers
This major survey of Latin American avant-gardewomen artists traces an arc from modernism through abstraction and Pop Art to contemporary practice. With key works by over seventy artists across more than a hundred years, it showcases art made in Latin America, from Argentina to Mexico.
The volume brings together works by outstanding – in some cases rediscovered – women artists of different generations, revealing the diversity of their artistic languages. Particular attention is paid to the significance of these forms of expression for female self-empowerment, social change and plural identities. The book opens a fascinating chapter in global art histories and offers many striking new discoveries. Featuring avant-garde women artists from twelve countries!

Heike van den Valentyn is a freelance curator who has curated many exhibitions in Europe and Latin America on twentieth-century and contemporary art. With contributions by: Genêse Andrade, Florencia Battiti, David Caliz, Amanda Carneiro, Chiara Dröge, Andrei Fernández, María Amalia García, Andrea Giunta, Julieta González, Susanne Kleine, Miguel A. López, Ana Maria Maia, Géraldine Meyer, Ayelén Pagnanelli, Anamaria Pazmino, Yuri Quevedo, Stephanie Seidel, Igor Simões, Regina Teixeira de Barros, Heike van den Valentyn, Alice Wilke and others