Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction – Jewish Latin American Artists: Perspectives from the Global South -- Laura Fattal -- 1 The Camera as Compass: Kati Horna’s Photographic Exiles -- Michel Otayek -- 2 Ruminating on Rupture: Unraveling Metallic Threads in the Work of Gertrude Goldschmidt (GEGO) -- Laura Fattal -- 3 Krajcberg’s Canopy: Practises and Expressions -- Laura Fattal -- 4 Gyula Kosice’s The Hydrospatial City , Social Justice, and Repairing the World -- Rachel Mohl -- 5 Myra Landau and the Wisdom of the Senses -- Francine Birbragher-Rozencwaig -- 6 José Gurvich: “With Fire in My Hands …” -- Cecilia de Torres -- 7 Spectacle and Spirituality: the Cacophony of Objects, Nelson Leirner (1932–2020) -- Laura Fattal -- 8 Feliza Bursztyn: the Feminist Welder -- Francine Birbragher-Rozencwaig -- 9 Guillermo Kuitca: the Conscious and Subconscious Mind -- Lynn Zelevansky -- Conclusion – Transcending Borders: the Jewish Artist Diaspora in Latin America -- Estrellita B. Brodsky -- Index.

Jewish visual artists living and working in Latin America during the 20th and 21st centuries broaden an appreciation of the art of the Americas. The anthology addresses an often underacknowledged Jewish presence as part of the aesthetic of the global south providing the general public and scholars with in-depth insights. The artists’ dynamic prints, sculptures, paintings, and photographs explore aspects of modernist abstraction, and at times, indigenous materials, sardonic commentary on consumerism, and utopian ideals in their works of art. The anthology begins to fill a void of the contribution of Jewish Latin American artists born in Europe who immigrated to Latin America and others born there.

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