From Frida Kahlo to Lygia Clark, Vanguardistas surveys more than seventy women artists from Latin America.

This major survey of Latin American avant-garde women artists traces an arc from modernism, to abstraction and Pop Art, to contemporary practice. With key works by more than seventy artists across more than a hundred years, it showcases art made in Latin America, from Argentina to Mexico.

Featuring avant-garde women artists from twelve countries, this volume brings together works by outstanding—and in some cases rediscovered—artists of different generations, revealing the diversity of their artistic languages. Particular attention is paid to the significance of these forms of expression for female self-empowerment, social change, and plural identities. The book opens a fascinating chapter in global art histories and offers many striking new discoveries.