Inventing Latin America Under the Good Neighborhood Policy: The Case of the MoMA Collection, 1943

This article describes the strategies of North American government to help establish a Latin Collection in Museum Modern Art (MoMA) and role that Lincoln Kirstein had as collector works made up collection. The dialogue with various personalities culture tasks exhibition collection is analyzed. We emphasize how fine arts were spaces political weighting, areas usable by Good Neighbor politics. Finally, it explained what kind art was collected make 1943, idea America represented through selection. research uses primary sources from MoMA Archives, Rockefeller Personal New York Public Library Archives. comparative method history used review different cases