1960: Arte español en Nueva York: Un modelo de promoción institucional de la vanguardia

Abstract

The exposition New Spanish Painting and Sculpture, celebrated in 1960s in New York, and roving for the United States, it was an important milestone in the international promotion of the Spanish art during the Franco years. Promoted by the MOMA of New York, counted on the collaboration active of the Spanish authorities, which showed a great interest in her; considering it a diplomatic success of a regime that, a year before, had received the visit of the President of the United States. The work analyzes some vicissitudes of the organization of such sample and provides, as appendices, the text of the catalogue of the exposition and a written of Vicente Aguilera, Cemi, with the same destination, that it did not arrive to be published.