Abstract
Starting at the end of World War II and with the onset of the Cold War, the Organization of American States’ Visual Art Unit, under director Jose Gomez Sicre, advocated a specific model of Latin American art. Gomez Sicre’s relationship with Alfred Barr, the director of the New York Museum of Modern Art and, through it, his influence on the museum’s policies regarding Latin America art—that is, the decision to support a specific formula and what that formula should be—was pivotal. The model he championed centered on three aspects: internationalism, Western thought and anticommunism. That model entailed a harsh questioning of what were seen as local formulations at a distance from that central vision.
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