Miriam Basilio

Areas of Research/Interest

Art, propaganda, cultural property and national identity in Spain, modern Spanish and Latin American art, and the reception of Latin American art in the United States.

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Other publications for which I was a contributor are available via Amazon:

“Evolving Taxonomies at The Museum of Modern Art in the 1930s and ‘40s and the Definitions of the “Latin American Collection,”” in Edward J. Sullivan, ed. The Americas Revealed: Collecting Colonial and Latin American Art in the United States (University Park, PA: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018), pp. 28-43

“The Alcázar of Toledo: Ritual, Tourism and Propaganda in Franco’s Spain, 1936-1940.” In Architecture & Tourism: Spectacle, Performance, and Space D. Medina Lasansky, Brian McLaren, Eds. (Oxford: Berg, 2004), pp. 93-107, (Spanish Ed. Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 2006)

“”First Win the War!” Kati Horna, Gendered Images, and Political Discord During the Spanish Civil War,” in Gabriela Rangel, Ed. Told and Untold: The Photo Stories of Kati Horna in the Illustrated Press (New York: Americas Society, 2016), pp. 56-73

“Museums for the People: David Seymour’s Photographs of The Duque of Alba’s Palace in Madrid, 1936,” in Cynthia Young, Ed. The Mexican Suitcase (New York: International Center of Photography, 2010), pp. 69-70.

“Catalans! Catalunya: Posters and Propaganda in Catalonia During the Spanish Civil War.” In William H. Robinson, Jordi Falgàs, and Carmen Belen Lord eds. Barcelona & Modernity: Gaudí, Picasso, Miró, Dalí (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006), pp. 436-449