The plastic in folk art and contemporary modern art in Guatemala

Abstract

Since the last century, particularly after the Second World War, Central America, as many national territories called III World or as part of the so-called underdeveloped countries, has suffered more acutely than ever the excessive and abusive penetration interests economic and political powers of the self-styled "overdeveloped" in terms of penetration of their markets for industrial products, in the context of the modern technologies auxiliándose usufruct tariff export / import favorable mono- and polipólicas mega-industries at the expense of the poor and weak economies of the Third World peoples.