Twentieth-Century Art of Latin America

Revised and Expanded Edition

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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The product of Jacqueline Barnitz’s more than forty years of studying and teaching, Twentieth-Century Art of Latin America surveys the major currents in and artists of Mexico, the Caribbean, and South America (including Brazil). This new edition has been refreshed throughout to include new scholarship on several modern movements, such as abstraction in the River Plate region and the Cuban avant-garde. A new chapter covers art since 1990. In all, 30 percent of the images in this edition are new, and thirty-four additional artists are discussed and illustrated.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2015-11-01
Mått216 x 279 x 28 mm
Vikt1 728 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor435
FörlagUniversity of Texas Press
ISBN9781477308042

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Jacqueline Barnitz (1923–2017) was a professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Texas at Austin. Patrick Frank first taught the history of Latin American modern art in a university context in 1995. He is the author of several books and articles on the subject, focusing especially on graphic art and art in Argentina. He is also the author or coauthor of two widely used introductory textbooks on art.

List of IllustrationsPreface to the Second Edition (Jacqueline Barnitz)Preface to the Second Edition (Patrick Frank)AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: An Overview of the Nineteenth CenturyChapter 1. Modernismo and the Break with Academic Art, 1890–1934Chapter 2. The Avant-Garde of the 1920sChapter 3. Social, Ideological, and Nativist Art: The 1930s, 1940s, and AfterChapter 4. Surrealism, Wartime, and New World Imagery, 1928–1964Chapter 5. Torres-GarcÍa's Constructive Universalism and the Abstract LegacyChapter 6. New Museums, the SÃo Paulo Biennial, and Abstract ArtChapter 7. Functionalism, Integration of the Arts, and the Postwar Architectural BoomChapter 8. Geometric, Optical, and Kinetic Art from the 1950s through the 1970sChapter 9. Brazilian Concrete and Neoconcrete Art and Their OffshootsChapter 10. Neofiguration, Pop, and Environments: The 1960s and 1970sChapter 11. Graphic Art, Painting, and Conceptualism as Ideological ToolsChapter 12. Some Trends of the 1980s and Early 1990sChapter 13. Toward a New CenturyNotesSelected BibliographyIllustration CreditsIndex

. . . this is a thorough account of Latin American art and of the social and political issues that influenced it. (Choice) Without a doubt, Twentieth-Century Art of Latin America was when first published and remains to date the clearest, least dogmatic, and most evenhanded survey of this material in English, for the academic as well as the general reader. (Hispanic American Historical Review) Twentieth-Century Art of Latin America provides an engaging and balanced introduction to the major moments of modern and contemporary art in Latin America for the students and nonspecialists for whom it was written. (Latin American Research Review)