This study sheds light on an as yet unstudied aspect of the Museum of Modern Art's (MoMA) preeminent role in establishing the definition of the problematic term "Latin American art" in the United States. In examining shifting categorization of Latin American works according to stylistic and geographic taxonomies, we gain a greater understanding of the organization of the Museum's collections as a whole during the 1940s and 1950s. This book is the...