Introduction : questioning the avant-garde -- Defining the questionnaire -- Picturing Latin America -- Translating the Americas -- Forming national canons -- Extending into the contemporary -- Conclusion : interrogating print culture
Summary
"Examines art and literature of the Americas through the lens of the questionnaire, a genre as central as the manifesto to the history of the avant-garde. Demonstrates how modernism and the avant-garde were debated at the very moment of their development and consolidation"--Provided by publisher