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The mobility of modernism : art and criticism in 1920s Latin America / Harper Montgomery.
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Montgomery, Harper
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Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/Created
Austin : University of Texas Press, [2017]
©20
©2017
Description
xi, 318 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.
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N6502.57.M63 M66 2017
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Subject(s)
Arts, Latin American
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20th century
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Modernism (Art)
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Latin America
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20th century
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Arts and society
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Latin America
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History
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20th century
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Art criticism
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Latin America
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History
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20th century
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Series
Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture.
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Summary note
Many Latin American artists and critics in the 1920s drew on the values of modernism to question the cultural authority of Europe. Modernism gave them a tool for coping with the mobility of their circumstances, as well as the inspiration for works that questioned the very concepts of the artist and the artwork and opened the realm of art to untrained and self-taught artists, artisans, and women. Writing about the modernist works in newspapers and magazines, critics provided a new vocabulary with which to interpret and assign value to the expanding sets of abstracted forms produced by these artists, whose lives were shaped by mobility. Harper Montgomery examines modernist artworks and criticism that circulated among a network of cities, including Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Havana, and Lima. She maps the dialogues and relationships among critics who published in avant-gardist magazines such as Amauta and Revista de Avance and artists such as Carlos Merida, Xul Solar, and Emilio Pettoruti, among others, who championed esoteric forms of abstraction. She makes a convincing case that, for these artists and critics, modernism became an anticolonial stance which raised issues that are still vital today-the tensions between the local and the global, the ability of artists to speak for blighted or unincorporated people, and, above all, how advanced art and its champions can enact a politics of opposition.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (pages 279-302) and index.
Contents
Circulation : Latin American art in Amauta
Relocation : Carlos Mérida moves to Mexico City
Homecoming : Emilio Pettoruti and Xul Solar return to Buenos Aires
Dissemination : woodcuts reproduce artistic labor
Reproduction : Norah Borges draws modern femininity
Pedagogy : Mexican children's art becomes revolutionary
Conclusion.
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ISBN
9781477312537 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
1477312536 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
9781477312544 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
1477312544 ((pbk. ; : alk. paper))
SuDoc no.
Z UA380.8 M766mo
LCCN
2016049900
OCLC
961153399
Other standard number
40027407672
40027288278
RCP
C - S
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