Contemporary Latin American art: Getting started

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Summon will usually be your best starting point for finding articles, books and dissertations.

• video intro to Summon (4 mins) 
• collection of guides if you need help with particular Summon searches

You may also want to run supplementary searches in these databases:

• Art & Architecture Source
• Google Scholar: an alternative to Summon
  • info about using Scholar 
  • video intro to Scholar (3 mins)

For introductory articles:

• Grove Art Online: for instance includes one article about each nation on the Latin American mainland, plus some but not all island nations. All include bibliographies.

For women artists:

• Amalgama  'a women-led platform committed to disrupting the status quo for women artists from Latin America'
• Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985: a research guide from UCLA
• SIA women artists guide for more options

The focus of the SIA collections, and of this guide, is English-language or bilingual material. However if you read Spanish or Portuguese, it is worth running searches in those languages too. For instance you could search for "arte contemporáneo mexicano" as well as “Mexican contemporary art”. You can do this in Summon, Art & Architecture Source, the catalogues of other libraries, or any other databases.