Due momenti della critica d'arte latinoamericana del Novecento

This article aims to analyse the most significant epistemological changes in Latin American criticism between the decades of the 1970s and 90s via the comparison of two of the most important compendiums of Latin American art criticism: America Latina en sus Artes, published by UNESCO in 1974, and Beyond the Fantastic, published by the British Institute InlVA in 1995. In doing so, this article deepens: The consideration of Latin America as a place' from where to announce a discourse about art practices, the relation of the idea of 'Latin American Art' with the questioning of the autonomy of art, and the relation between this idea and the change in the study of art practices, from a discipline as Art History to different fields of studies as 'Visual Studies' and 'Latin American Studies'.