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The Art of Joaquin Torres-Garcia
- Constructive Universalism and the Inversion of Abstraction
Engelsk
Bogcover for The Art of Joaquin Torres-Garcia af Aarnoud Rommens, 9781032179445
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
200
ISBN-13:
9781032179445
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1032179449
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
30 sep 2021
Størrelse i cm:
24,6 x 17,4
Oplagsdato:
30 sep 2021
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The Art of Joaquin Torres-Garcia

- Constructive Universalism and the Inversion of Abstraction
Engelsk
Paperback 2021
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Intertwining art history, aesthetic theory, and Latin American studies, Aarnoud Rommens challenges contemporary Eurocentric revisions of the history of abstraction through this study of the Uruguayan artist Joaquín Torres-García. After studying and painting (for decades) in Europe, Torres-García returned in 1934 to his native home, Montevideo, with the dream of reawakening and revitalizing what he considered the true indigenous essence of Latin American art: "Abstract Spirit." Rommens rigorously analyses the paradoxes of the painter''s aesthetic-philosophical doctrine of Constructive Universalism as it sought to adapt European geometric abstraction to the Americas. Whereas previous scholarship has dismissed Torres-García''s theories as self-contradictory, Rommens seeks to recover their creative potential as well as their role in tracing the transatlantic routes of the avant-garde. Through the highly original method of reading Torres-García''s artworks as a critique on the artist''s own writings, Rommens reveals how Torres-García appropriates the colonial language of primitivism to construct the artificial image of "pure" pre-Columbian abstraction. Torres-García thereby inverts the history of art: this book teases out the important lessons of this gesture and the implications for our understanding of abstraction today.

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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
200
ISBN-13:
9781032179445
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1032179449
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
30 sep 2021
Størrelse i cm:
24,6 x 17,4
Oplagsdato:
30 sep 2021
Forfatter(e):
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