From the Book - Revised & Expanded Edition.
Modernismo and the break with academic art, 1890-1934
The avant-garde of the 1920s : Cosmopolitan or national identity?
Social, ideological, and nativist art : the 1930s, 1940s, and after
Surrealism, wartime, and new world imagery, 1928-1964
Torres-García's constructive universalism and the abstract legacy
New museums, the São Paulo Biennial, and abstract art
Functionalism, integration of the arts, and the postwar architectural boom
Geometric, optical, and kinetic art from the 1950s through the 1970s
Brazilian concrete and neoconcrete art and their offshoots
Neofiguration, pop, and environments : the 1960s and 1970s
Graphic art, painting, and conceptualism as ideological tools
Some trends of the 1980s and early 1990s