Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations

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Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations

David Craven

Art and Revolution in Latin America, 1910–1990

Glossary Terms and Abbreviations

Author

David Craven

PublisherYale University Press

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00020.003

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-15774

Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations

Mexico

Amauta	Journal (1926–30) founded and edited in Lima, Perú by José Carlos Mariátegui, who published on Diego Rivera.
ARM	Alianza Revolucionaria Mexicanista. An extreme right-wing group comprising the Camisas Doradas (Gold Shirts).
Ayala	Plan de Ayala. The Revolutionary manifesto of the Zapatistas drawn up in November 1911.
Casa del Obrero Mundial	Left-wing union (1912–1917).
CGOCM	Confederación General de Obreros y Campesinos de Mexico (1932–36). Founded by Vincente Lombardo Toledano, it became the CTM in 1936.
CNC	Confederación Nacional Campesina (1936–66). Founded by Lázaro Cárdenas.
CROM	Confederación Regional de Obreros Mexicanos (1918–35). Founded by Luis Morones.
CTM	Confederación de Trabajadores Mexicanos (1936 to present) (see CGOCM).
ENAP	Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas (in Mexico City). 1929 name for old Academia de San Carlos (1783 to present) which is called Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes.
ENP	Escuela Nacional Preparatoria (in Mexico City).
INBA	Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, a ministry of culture.
LEAR	Liga de Escritores y Artistas Revolucionarios (1934–38). Popular front organization that published Frente a Frente.
Maximato	The period 1928–35 when Plutarco Calles dominated the federal government, even though not elected to the presidency.
PNR	Partido Nacional Revolucionario (1928–36).
PRI	Partido Revolucionario Institutionalizado (1946 to present).
PRM	Partido de la Revolución Mexicano (1936–46).
SEP	Secretaría de Educación Pública (1921 to present).
SOTPE	Sindicato de Obreros Técnicos, Pintores y Escultores (1922–24). Journal: El Machete.
TGP	Taller de Gráfica Popular (1937–77).
UNAM	Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Includes such institutes as the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas (1936 to present).

Cuba

Casa de la Américas	Cultural institute and research center founded in 1959. Publishes a journal of the same name.
CNC	Consejo Nacional de Cultura (1960–76). Replaced by the Ministerio de Cultura.
COR	Comisión de Orientación Revolucionaria (1959 to present). Publicity wing of the PCC.
ICAIC	Instituto Cubano de Arte y Industria Cinematográfico (1959 to present).
OCLAE	Organización Contemporánea de Latin-americanos Estudentiles.
OSPAAAL	Organización en Solidaridad con el Pueblo de Africa, Asia y América Latina.
PCC	Partido Communista da Cuba (1961 to present).
PSC	Partido Socialista de Cuba. The official Soviet-backed party until it was replaced in 1961/62 by the PCC.
UNEAC	Unión de Escritores y Artistas Cubanos.

Nicaragua

AMNLAE	Asociación de Mujeres Nicaragüenses “Luis Amanda Espinoza.”
ASTC	Asociación Sandinista de Trabajadores Culturales (1979–89). Umbrella sindicate for all the FSLN artists unions.
ATC	Asociación de Trabajadores Campesinos. Largest rural union.
CDS	Comités de Defensa Sandinista. Neighbor militias.
CPC	Centros Populares de Culture (1979–90).
CST	Confederación Sandinista de Trabajadores. Largest urban union.
ENAP	Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas. Before 1979 the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes.
FSLN	Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional.
TGE	Taller de Gráfica Experimental (1981–88). Printmakers collective.
TSJ	Taller San Jacinto (1979–81). Printmakers collective.
UNAD	Unión Nacional de Artes Plásticas (member of ASTC).

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BOOKArt and Revolution in Latin America, 1910–1990

David Craven

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00020

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-15771

In this uniquely wide-ranging book, David Craven investigates the extraordinary impact of three Latin American revolutions on the visual arts and on cultural policy. The three great upheavals—in Mexico (1910–1940), in Cuba (1959–1989), and in Nicaragua (1979–1990)—were defining moments in twentieth-century life in the Americas. Craven discusses the structural logic of each movement’s artistic project—by whom, how, and for whom artworks were produced—and assesses their legacies. In each case, he demonstrates how the consequences of the revolution reverberated in the arts and cultures far beyond national borders.

The book examines not only specific artworks originating from each revolution’s attempt to deal with the challenge of “socializing the arts,” but also the engagement of the working classes in Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua with a tradition of the fine arts made newly accessible through social transformation. Craven considers how each revolution dealt with the pressing problem of creating a “dialogical art”—one that reconfigures the existing artistic resource rather than one that just reproduces a populist art to keep things as they were. In addition, the author charts the impact on the revolutionary processes of theories of art and education, articulated by such thinkers as John Dewey and Paulo Freire. The book provides a fascinating new view of the Latin American revolutionaries—from artists to political leaders—who defined art as a fundamental force for the transformation of society.

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Author

David Craven

PublisherYale University Press

Print publication date July 2002 (out of print)

Print ISBN 9780300082111

EISBN 9780300234343

Illustrations 193 illus.

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