Twentieth-Century Art of Latin America

Name: Twentieth-Century Art of Latin America
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ISBN: 9780292708587

ISBN-10: 0292708580

ISBN-13: 9780292708587

Edition: 2001

Authors: Jacqueline Barnitz

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"An exciting and invaluable work of synthesis and interpretation, Barnitz's grand survey greatly enhances understanding of the extraordinary cultural mix that infuses Latin American art with its soulfulness and vigor. " Booklist "With ease and agility, Barnitz navigates an entire century's worth of art produced in the varied regions and cultures of Latin America." ARTnews "For breadth of reference and range of coverage, this book will stand for some time as the most comprehensive study to date of modern Latin American art from the Caribbean basin to the Southern cone countries." David Craven, author of Diego Rivera as Epic Modernist The twentieth-century art of Latin America is…

Book details

List price: $45.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 3/15/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 424
Size: 8.00" wide x 11.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 4.180
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction and an Overview of the Nineteenth Century



Modernismo and the Break with Academic Art, 1890-1934


The Avant-garde of the 1920s: Cosmopolitan or National Identity?


Social, Ideological, and Nativist Art: The 1930s, 1940s, and After


Surrealism, Wartime, and New World Imagery, 1928-1964


Torres-Garcï¿½a's Constructive Universalism and the Abstract Legacy



New Museums, the Sï¿½o Paulo Biennial, and Abstract Art


Functionalism, Integration of the Arts, and the Postwar Architectural Boom


Geometric, Optical, and Kinetic Art from the 1950s through the 1970s


Concrete and Neoconcrete Art and Their Offshoots in the Brazilian Context


Neofiguration, Representational Art, Pop, and Environments: The 1960s and 1970s


Political Art: Graphic Art, Painting, and Conceptualism as Ideological Tools


Some Trends of the 1980s


Notes


Map


Timeline


Bibliography


Index