Acknowledgements
My foremost gratitude to María Cristina Novo for her unwavering patience and great care in editing this manuscript.
My sincere thanks to Gaudencio Fidelis, Wilfrido Corral, Masha Chlenova, Paloma Duong, and Álvaro Cepero for their kindness in reading all or parts of the manuscript and offering valuable insights. I am equally grateful to the anonymous reviewers, whose feedback at various stages of revision helped to improve the argument and ideas presented in this book.
I am indebted to Fernando Citara, Azita Panahpour, Caridad Kenna, Amalia Popell, Inés Loscalzo, and María Esperanza Hernández for their assistance and encouragement throughout the course of my research.
Special thanks to Bárbaro Martínez-Ruiz for his academic guidance during my graduate studies. He taught me to ask important questions about art in Latin America.
Finally, my eternal gratitude to my beloved family, my constant source of strength and support.