"Highly insightful and theoretically sophisticated, Dematerialization presents an original perspective on how artists, designers, and critics working in Latin America sparked a far-reaching transformation in twentieth-century art."--Pedro Erber, author of Breaching the Frame: The Rise of Contemporary Art in Brazil and Japan "Approaching dematerialization as an interpretative framework, this monograph is both a highly original critical study as well as an exploration of a transformative period in Latin American art, design, and criticism."--Claire F. Fox, author of Making Art Panamerican: Cultural Policy and the Cold War "In Dematerialization , Karen Benezra breaks new ground by examining Latin American artists and critics who were concerned less with transformations of the art object itself and more with art's capacity for reflecting on the social--and for generating social transformation. With laser-sharp focus, this smart, concise study pushes against broad brush applications of the label of 'dematerialization' and instead insists that specifically Latin American responses to late capitalism fundamentally foregrounded the question of art's relationship to society."--Rachel Price, author of Planet/Cuba: Art, Culture, and the Future of the Island.