Moderno: Design for Living in Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela, 1940-1978

Catalog of a traveling exhibition that opened at the America’s Society in New York in 2015. Published by Santillana. 4to, hardcover, 280 pages, with both full color and b/w illustrations, including a section of plates dedicated to the exhibit. With incisive essays by Gabriela Rangel, Jorge Rivas Perez, Lourdes Blanco, Ana Elena Mallet, Christina L. De Leon, Maria Cecilia Loschiavo Dos Santos, and Luis Canstaneda, along with historical texts by Clara Porset, Lina Bo Bardi and others, plus designer biographies. An important contribution to the understanding of Latin American postwar modernism and its relationship to American and European counterparts, especially noteworthy for its inclusion of Venezulan designers along with the more canonical figures from Brazil and Mexico. Minor bumping and rubbing to boards, some waviness to text block in production. Scarce.