在这部经典的概述（现在进行了更新，并使用了全彩图像）中，Edward Lucie-Smith介绍了1900年至今的拉丁美洲艺术。他详细讨论了迭戈•里维拉（Diego Rivera）和弗里达•卡洛（Frida Kahlo）等重要人物，以及数十位不太知名的艺术家。那些流亡了一生的人物，以及居住在南美的欧洲和美国艺术家，例如Leonora Carrington，在这本广泛、全面的概述中都有介绍。书中介绍的这些艺术家寻求本土的根源和当地的传统。探索抽象，表现主义和新媒介（视频，装置艺术，表演）；与欧洲和北美运动展开对话，同时坚持让他们的作品吸引广大观众；并在当今整个拉美大陆创造了一个充满活力，创新和形形色色的艺术界。新的章节将讨论延伸到二十一世纪，总结了过去二十年的主要趋势和最**的人物。不变的主题是拉丁美洲艺术家对实验性和新事物的拥抱。

In this classic survey, now updated and with full-colour images throughout, Edward Lucie-

Smith introduces the art of Latin America from 1900 to the present day. He discusses in detail major figures such as Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, as well as dozens of less well-

known artists. Those who spent their lives in exile, and artists from Europe and the US who lived in South America, such as Leonora Carrington, are all included in this broad, comprehensive view. The artists featured here have sought for indigenous roots and a local tradition; explored abstraction, expressionism and new media (video, installation, performance); entered dialogue with European and North American movements, while insisting on reaching a wide popular audience for their work; and created an energetic, innovative and very varied art scene across the continent today. A new chapter extends the discussion into the twenty-first century, summarizing key trends and most notable figures of the last two decades. A constant theme is the embrace of the experimental and the new by artists across Latin America.