Argentina Travel Guide

The comprehensive catalogue published in 1994 for the exhibition of "Art from Argentina 1920-1994", held at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, claimed to be the first book on twentieth-century Argentine art ever to appear in Europe. The exhibition organizers put this down to the fact that, while Argentina is the Latin American country that appears to be most like Europe, the reality is more alien: that of a new, fast-growing but isolated nation, searching for a modern identity against a background of permanent insecurity, political violence, entrenched conservatism and generalized chaos. Surprisingly little has yet to be written in English-speaking countries, even the United States, about the plastic arts in Argentina, despite the country's massive, sometimes innovative and often fascinating production over two centuries of nationhood