Contemporary Mexican Painting in a Time of Change
Title | Contemporary Mexican Painting in a Time of Change PDF eBook |
Author | Shifra M. Goldman |
Publisher | |
Pages | 264 |
Release | 1995 |
Genre | Art |
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United by their belief in the importance of the human image in art, they distanced themselves both from the social realism of their predecessors and from the pure abstraction of many of their contemporaries. Shifra Goldman begins with a brief examination of the era and issues of muralism and the art of Rufino Tamayo. She then focuses on the confrontation between socially conscious art and "pure painting" that began in the late 1950s and resulted in the formation of Nueva Presencia.
Dimensions of the Americas
Title | Dimensions of the Americas PDF eBook |
Author | Shifra M. Goldman |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 596 |
Release | 1994 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780226301242 |
This volume presents an overview of the social history of modern and contemporary Latin American and Latino art. This collection of thirty-three essays focuses on Latin American artists throughout Mexico, Central and South America, the Caribbean, and the United States. The author provides a chronology of modern Latin American art; a history of "social art history" in the United States; and synopses of recent theoretical and historical writings by major scholars from Mexico, Cuba, Brazil, Peru, Uruguay, Chile, and the United States. In her essays, she discusses a vast array of topics including: the influence of the Mexican muralists on the American continent; the political and artistic significance of poster art and printmaking in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and among Chicanos; the role of women artists such as Guatemalan painter Isabel Ruiz; and the increasingly important role of politics and multinational businesses in the art world of the 1970s and 1980s. She explores the reception of Latin American and Latino art in the United States, focusing on major historical exhibits as well as on exhibits by artists such as Chilean Alfredo Jaar and Argentinean Leandro Katz. Finally, she examines the significance of nationalist and ethnic themes in Latin American and Latino art.
New Geographies of Abstract Art in Postwar Latin America
Title | New Geographies of Abstract Art in Postwar Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | Mariola V. Alvarez |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 515 |
Release | 2018-09-27 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1351062123 |
This edited volume examines the history of abstract art across Latin America after 1945. This form of art grew in popularity across the Americas in the postwar period, often serving to affirm a sense of being modern and the right of Latin America to assume the leading role Europe had played before World War II. Latin American artists practiced gestural and geometric abstraction, though the history of art has favored the latter. Recent scholarship, for instance, has focused on geometric abstraction from Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela. The book aims to expand the map and consider this phenomenon as it developed in neglected regions such as Central America and the Andes, investigatinghow this style came to stand in for Latin American contemporary art.
Contemporary Mexican Artists
Title | Contemporary Mexican Artists PDF eBook |
Author | Agustín Velázquez Chávez |
Publisher | |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 1969 |
Genre | Art |
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Aspects of Contemporary Mexican Painting
Title | Aspects of Contemporary Mexican Painting PDF eBook |
Author | Edward J. Sullivan |
Publisher | America's Society Art Gallery |
Pages | 118 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Art |
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Contemporary Mexican Painting
Title | Contemporary Mexican Painting PDF eBook |
Author | Fort Worth Art Center |
Publisher | |
Pages | 22 |
Release | 1959 |
Genre | Art, Abstract |
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Readings in Latin American Modern Art
Title | Readings in Latin American Modern Art PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick Frank |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 283 |
Release | 2008-10-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0300133332 |
This important and welcome volume is the first English-language anthology of writings on Latin American modern art of the twentieth century. The book includes some fifty seminal essays and documents—including statements, interviews, and manifestoes by artists—that encompass the broad diversity of this emerging field. Many of these materials are difficult to access and some are translated here for the first time. Together the selections explore the breadth and depth of Latin American modern art as well as its distinctive evolution apart from American and European art history. Included in this collection are fascinating ideas and insights on the impact of the avant-garde in the 1920s, the Mexican mural movement, Surrealism and other fantasy-based styles, modern architecture, geometric and optical art, concrete and neo-concrete art, and political conceptualism. For students and scholars of Latin American art, the volume offers an invaluable collection of primary and secondary sources.