Main Themes, Keywords
Pictorial Indigenism, art and activism, dance, Latin-American art and politics, Nexus New York, pedagogy, history of The New School (Collector’s Circle), indigenismo, transnationalism, representation of the Other, ritual dance, Ecuador
Related Work in The New School Art Collection
Historical context
Selected Readings and Sources
Greet, Michele. “From Indigenism to Surrealism: Camilo Egas in New York, 1927-1946.” In Nexus New York, Latin/American Artists in the Modern Metropolis, edited by Deborah Cullen, 168-79. New York: El Museo del Barrio, and New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2009.
Indych-Lopez, Anna. ”Making Nueva York Moderna: Latin American Art, the International Avant-Gardes, and The New School.” In Nueva York 1613-1945, edited by Edward J. Sullivan, 235-255. New York, London: The New-York Historical Society, Scala Publishers, 2010