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Documenting Latin American art at the Museum of Modern Art Library

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

Taína Caragol
Taína Caragol*
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Museum of Modern Art Library, 11 West 53rd Street, New York, NY 10019, USA
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Email: Taina_Caragol@moma.org
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Abstract

This article traces the history of the Latin American holdings of the Museum of Modern Art Library, one of the first institutions outside Latin America to start documenting the art of this geopolitical region, and one of the best research centers on modern Latin American art in the world. This success story dates back to the thirties, when the Museum Library began building a Latin American and Caribbean collection that currently comprises over 15,000 volumes of catalogues and art books. The launch of various research tools and facilities for scholars and the general public in recent years also shows the Museum’s strong commitment not only towards Latin American art history but also to the present and the future of the Latino art community.

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Research Article
Information
Art Libraries Journal , Volume 30 , Special Issue 3: Special issue: Art libraries and art librarianship in Latin America , 2005 , pp. 33 - 36
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2005

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References

1. The Office of Inter-American Affairs was created in 1941 by the State Department in Washington DC to provide for the development of commercial and cultural relations between the American Republics in order to work in the interest of Hemisphere defense. The Committee on Art of the Office of Inter-American Affairs was composed of New York City’s municipal museum directors, whose function was to realize a programe of exchange in the visual arts between the United States and the other American Republics.Google Scholar
2. Independent curator Julia P. Herzberg and the Americas Society deserve recognition for their generous donations to the Library in 2003.Google Scholar
3. Accessible at http://www.moma.org/research/library/latinosurvey/index.html.Google Scholar