Cacti transformation from the primitive to the avant-garde: modern landscape architecture in Brazil and Mexico

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size AcknowledgementsI especially thank Christopher Vernon for his preliminary suggestions on this article and in-depth discussions about landscape architecture. An earlier version of this article was presented at the Architectural Elective Affinities Conference, European Architectural History Network (EAHN), Universidad de São Paulo, Brazil, and to the Landscape Architecture students at the University of Western Australia, March 2013. In São Paulo, I thank Carlos Warchavchik, Anna Sonia Rottenburg, and Thiago Catanoso for their generous hospitality. For their advice I thank Hilary Masters, Alexandra Keiser from the Archipenko Foundation and Susan K. Anderson from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Zeuler Lima, Luis Carranza, Keith Eggener, Eduardo Subirats and Francisco Gonzales de Canales. Thanks to John Dixon Hunt who offered comments on a version of this article and the anonymous referee. Lastly, thanks to Miranda Araujo and Pierina Camargo from the Lasar Segall Museum and Paulo Mauro de Aquino from the Gregori Warchavchik Archive.