The History of Art in Latin America, 1500-1800: Some Trends and Challenges in the Last Decade

Abstract

In 1949 the Hispanic Foundation of the Library of Congress published A Guide to the Art of Latin America ( gala ), an annotated bibliography of the literature on Latin America since the Conquest; it covered the years up to 1942, when the Handbook of Latin American Studies ( hlas ) had begun its annual bibliographies. “It is a startling fact” the Introduction begins, “that no single work deals comprehensively with the history of art in the Latin American countries.”