The ICAA’s Documents Project at Twenty Years: From Recovery to Expansion
Keywords:
documents; Latin American art, Latinx art, museums, universitiesAbstract
Over the several decades, significant headway has been made in solidifying the visibility of the critical and innovative contributions of Latin American and Latinx artists have made to the history of art in the 20th and 21st centuries. The International Center for the Arts of the Americas at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, has worked to encourage and foster new scholarship in these burgeoning fields through its research-based approach to the promotion of art from both hemispheres. The ICAA’s cornerstone Documents of Latin American and Latino Art digital platform has played an immeasurable role in the establishment and formulation of these disciplines and on an international scale. Having recently celebrated 20 years, this text reexamines the earliest stages of project and its current and future projects. Key to the discussion are the ways in which the ICAA utilizes digital technologies to encourage the expansion and visibility of these fields by making primary source documents accessible to the public.
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