Activating the Archive in Latin American and Latino Art History

FAIN: AC-253409-17

University Of Houston (Houston, TX 77204-3067)
Rex A. Koontz (Project Director: June 2016 to March 2021)

A two-year collaborative project between the University of Houston (UH) and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) to enable public and curricular use of MFAH’s International Center for the Art of the Americas resources.

"Activating the Archive" is a two-year project that brings together the University of Houston (UH) and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) in a collaboration that will allow a large audience to access and study Latin American and Latino culture history and art criticism through primary documents in Spanish and English. This University-Museum collaboration focuses on what is already the most significant open-access, digital database of Latino and Latin American art history and criticism--the Documents of 20th-century Latin American and Latino Art (hereafter the "Documents Project"). Here we activate the archive through the addition of English translations, geospatial data, and Latino art journals.

Associated Products

Documents of 20th-century Latin American and Latino Art (Web Resource)
Title: Documents of 20th-century Latin American and Latino Art
Author: Ramirez, Mari Carmen
Author: Decker, Arden
Author: Donato, Elizabeth
Abstract: The ICAA Documents of 20th-century Latin American and Latino Art digital archive provides access to primary sources and critical documents tracing the development of twentieth-century art in Latin America and among Latino populations in the United States. Recovered texts provide a much-needed intellectual foundation for the exhibition, collection, and interpretation of art produced along this cultural axis. Countries featured in the first phase of this multiyear project include Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Venezuela, and Latino USA. The ICAA Digital Archive reflects the findings of this monumental digitization project and is now available, free of charge, to the research and teaching community as well as to the public at large. The uploading of documents to the archive is an ongoing process.
Year: 2020
Primary URL: http://icaadocs.mfah.org/icaadocs/
Primary URL Description: Splash page for Documents Project, ICAA at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

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