Radical Form Modernist Abstraction in South America

A timely reassessment of some of the most daring projects of abstraction from South America. Emphasizing the open-ended and self-critical nature of the projects of abstraction in South America from the 1930s through the mid-1960s, this important new volume focuses on the artistic practices of Joaquìn Torres-Garcìa, Tomás Maldonado, Alejandro Otero, and Lygia Clark. Megan A. Sullivan positions the adoption of modernist abstraction by South American artists as part of a larger critique of the economic and social transformations caused by Latin America's state-led programs of rapid industrialization. Sullivan thoughtfully explores the diverse ways this skepticism of modernization and social and political change was expressed. Ultimately, the book makes it clear that abstraction in South America was understood not as an artistic style to be followed but as a means to imagine a universalist mode of art, a catalyst for individual and collective agency, and a way to express a vision of a better future for South American society.

ISBN:	9780300254020
Publisher:	Yale University Press
Imprint:	Yale University Press
Published date:	28 Jun 2022
DEWEY:	709.80904
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Sales rank:	9328
Number of pages:	224
Weight:	500g
Height:	213mm
Width:	263mm
Spine width:	26mm

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