New Geographies of Abstract Art in Postwar Latin America

ISBN-13: 9780367787004 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 268 str.

Mariola V. Alvarez; Ana M. Franco

Opis

This edited volume examines the history of abstract art across Latin America after 1945. The book aims to expand the map and consider this phenomenon as it developed in neglected regions such as Central America, the Caribbean, and the Andes, investigating how this style came to stand in for Latin American contemporary art.

Spis treści

Introduction [Mariola V. Alvarez and Ana M. Franco]  Part I: Gestural Abstractions 1. "Informalism Between Surrealism and Concrete Art. Aldo Pellegrini and the Promotion of Modern Art in Buenos Aires during the 1950s" [María Amalia García] 2."Calligraphic Abstraction and Postwar Brazilian Informalist Painting" [Mariola V. Alvarez] 3. "The Painting Devoured: El Techo de la Ballena and the Destruction of Venezuelan Informalism" [Sean Nesselrode Moncada] Part II: New Visions of Geometric Abstraction 4/ "The Fotoforma Exhibition at MASP, 1951: Geraldo de Barros and the Museum-School" [Heloisa Espada] 5. "Negotiating Afro-Brazilian Abstraction: Rubem Valentim in Rio, Rome, and Dakar, 1957-1966" [Abigail Lapin Dardashti] 6. "Fighting for the Abstract: Manuel de la Cruz González and Geometric Abstraction in Costa Rica" [Lauran Bonilla-Merchav] 7. "Beyond Abstraction: The Work of Vicente Rojo, Kazuya Sakai, and Manuel Felguérez during the 1970s" [Daniel Garza Usabiaga] Part III: Nuestra América: Abstraction between Latin America and the United States 8. "Andean Abstraction as Displayed at the Organization of American States" [Michele Greet] 9. "The Politics of Abstraction in Colombian Art during the Cold War" [Ana M. Franco] 10. "Public ‘Lifescapes’: Gonzalo Fonseca’s Designs for Life and Play (1964-1969)" [María Laura Steverlynck] Part IV: Abstraction and the Avant-garde  11. "From Sacrilegious Black to Chromatic System: The Argentinean Monochrome" [Daniel R. Quiles] 12. "Antagonistic Environments: Gendered Spaces and the Kinetic Installations of Colombian Artists Feliza Bursztyn, Jacqueline Nova, and Julia Acuña" [Gina McDaniel Tarver]  13. "Vontade Construtiva: Latin America’s Geometric Abstract Identity" [Camila Maroja]

O autorze

Mariola V. Alvarez is Assistant Professor at Temple University.

Ana M. Franco is Associate Professor at Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá.