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Inverted Utopias

Avant-garde Art in Latin America

By: Héctor Olea Galaviz,Mari Carmen Ramírez,Mari Carmen Ramirez,Héctor Olea,Hector Olea Hernandez

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Inverted Utopias

Avant-garde Art in Latin America

By: Héctor Olea Galaviz,Mari Carmen Ramírez,Mari Carmen Ramirez,Héctor Olea,Hector Olea Hernandez

In the twentieth century, avant-garde artists from Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean created extraordinary and highly innovative paintings, sculptures, assemblages, mixed-media works, and installations. This innovative book presents more than 250 works by some seventy of these artists (including Gego, Joaquin Torres-Garcia, Xul Solar, and Jose Clemente Orozco) and artists' groups, along with interpretive essays by leading authorities and newly translated manifestoes and other theoretical documents written by the artists. Together the images and texts showcase the astonishing artistic achievements of the Latin American avant-garde. The book focuses on two decisive periods: the return from Europe in the 1920s of Latin American avant-garde pioneers; and the expansion of avant-garde activities throughout Latin America after World War II as artists expressed their independence from developments in Europe and the United States. As the authors explain, during these periods Latin American art was fueled by the belief that artistic creations could present a form of utopia - an inversion of the original premise that drove the European avant-garde - and serve as a model for

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Yale University Press

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0300102690

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9780300102697

Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?

By: Mari Carmen Ramirez,Tomas Ybarra-Frausto,Hector Olea

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Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?

By: Mari Carmen Ramirez,Tomas Ybarra-Frausto,Hector Olea

DIV This first volume of the Critical Documents of 20th-Century Latin American and Latino Art series published by the International Center for the Arts of the Americas at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, presents 168 crucial texts written by influential artists, critics, curators, journalists, and intellectuals whose writings shed light on questions relating to what it means to be "Latin American" and/or "Latino." Reinforced within a critical framework, the documents address converging issues, including: the construct of "Latin-ness" itself; the persistent longing for a continental identity; notions of Pan–Latin Americanism; the emergence of collections and exhibitions devoted specifically to "Latin American” or "Latino" art; and multicultural critiques of Latin American and Latino essentialism. The selected documents, many of which have never before been published in English, span from the late fifteenth century to the present day. They encompass key protagonists of this comprehensive history as well as unfamiliar figures, revealing previously unknown facets of the questions and issues at play. The book series complements the thousands of seminal documents now available through the ICAA Documents of 20th-Century Latin American and Latino Art digital archive, http://icaadocs.mfah.org. Together they establish a much-needed intellectual foundation for the exhibition, collection, and interpretation of art produced in Latin America and among Latino populations in the United States. /div

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0300187157

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9780300187151

The São Paulo Neo-Avant-Garde

Radical Art and Mass Print Media in Cold War Brazil

By: Mari Rodríguez Binnie

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The São Paulo Neo-Avant-Garde

Radical Art and Mass Print Media in Cold War Brazil

By: Mari Rodríguez Binnie

How artists challenged a military dictatorship through mass print technologies in 1970s and 1980s São Paulo. Throughout the 1970s and into the 1980s, during Brazil's military dictatorship, artists shifted their practices to critique the government and its sanitized images of Brazil, its use of torture, and its targeted persecutions. Mari Rodríguez Binnie's The São Paulo Neo-Avant-Garde examines these artworks and their engagement with politics and mainstream art institutions and practices. As Binnie skillfully shows, artists appropriated processes like photocopy, offset lithography, and thermal and heliographic printing, making newly available technologies of mass production foundational to their work of resistance against both the dictatorship and the established art world. Often working collaboratively, these artists established alternative networks of exchange locally and internationally to circulate their work. As democracy was reestablished in Brazil, and in the decades that followed, their works largely fell out of sight. Here, in the first English-language book to focus entirely on conceptual practices in São Paulo in the 1970s and 1980s, Binnie unearths a scene critical to the development of contemporary Brazilian Art.

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University of Texas Press

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1477329889

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Modern and Contemporary Masterworks from Malba - Fundación Costantini

By: Mari Carmen Ramírez,Marcelo Eduardo Pacheco,Eduardo Costantini,Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires

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Modern and Contemporary Masterworks from Malba - Fundación Costantini

By: Mari Carmen Ramírez,Marcelo Eduardo Pacheco,Eduardo Costantini,Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires

Modern and Contemporary Masterworks from Malba - Fundación Costantini highlights affinities among modern and contemporary Latin American artworks from MALBA (Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires). The book includes an in-depth interview by Mari Carmen Ramírez with Eduardo Costantini, an internationally renowned art collector and the founder of MALBA"--

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135

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Museum of Fine Arts Houston

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0300181000

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9780300181005

Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?

By: Mari Carmen Ramirez,Tomas Ybarra-Frausto,Hector Olea

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By: Mari Carmen Ramirez,Tomas Ybarra-Frausto,Hector Olea

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Cosmopolitan Routes

Houston Collects Latin American Art

By: Gilbert Vicario,Mari Carmen Ramírez,Elizabeth Cerejido

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Cosmopolitan Routes

Houston Collects Latin American Art

By: Gilbert Vicario,Mari Carmen Ramírez,Elizabeth Cerejido

Summary: "Cosmopolitan routes" situates 20th-century Latin American art as an evolving discourse of individual impulses, universal themes, and shared ideas. It further illustrates the parallels between works produced in Latin America and the artistic movements that have come to define modern and contemporary art on a global level. Showcased in detail are nearly 100 masterworks from Houston collections, ranging from early Modernist and postwar pieces to contemporary creations by artists from Uruguay, Brazil, Venezuela, and Mexico. From the Constructive Universalism of Uruguayan artist Joaquin Torres-Garcia to the figurative and Surrealist work of artists such as Remedios Varo, Leonora Carrington, and Pedro Friedeberg, a host of diverse movements are represented. All of the works demonstrate the depth and quality of Latin American artistic expression as well as the spirit of diversity and exploration involved in the quest for collecting art.

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0300167563

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9780300167566

Inverted Utopias

Avant-garde Art in Latin America

By: Héctor Olea Galaviz,Mari Carmen Ramírez,Mari Carmen Ramirez,Héctor Olea,Hector Olea Hernandez

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Inverted Utopias

Avant-garde Art in Latin America

By: Héctor Olea Galaviz,Mari Carmen Ramírez,Mari Carmen Ramirez,Héctor Olea,Hector Olea Hernandez

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0300102690

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Questioning the Line

Gego in Context

By: Gego,Mari Carmen Ramírez,Theresa Papanikolas

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Questioning the Line

Gego in Context

By: Gego,Mari Carmen Ramírez,Theresa Papanikolas

From the late 1950s until the 1980s, the German-born Venezuelan artist Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt) made drawings, prints, three-dimensional works, hanging-net pieces (reticulareas), and wire constructions (drawings without paper) of extraordinary quality. Taken as a whole, these works illustrate the issue at the core of her production: the liberation of line from volume and form into space. Though little known outside of Latin America, Gego's work enjoyed a dialogue with twentieth-century artists and movements active not only in Venezuela, but also worldwide. In a series of essays examining her art in relation to Modernism, Informalism, kinetic art, and other tendencies, this volume--the second in the MFAH International Center for the Arts of the Americas series--situates Gego in her international context.

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University of Texas Press

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0890901198

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9780890901199

Hélio Oiticica

The Body of Color

By: Mari Carmen Ramírez,Luciano Figueiredo,Hélio Oiticica

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Hélio Oiticica

The Body of Color

By: Mari Carmen Ramírez,Luciano Figueiredo,Hélio Oiticica

One the most creative artists of the twentieth century, Hélio Oiticica (1937-1980) played a key role in the Tropicalia movement in Brazil, and in the overall development of Latin American art and culture. Beginning with formal, abstract works on paper, he progressed to creating labyrinths, works that could be worn as clothing, structures hung from the ceiling, and works that featured pure, vivid pigments. The large-scale environments he created toward the end of his career opened up new sensory worlds for gallery visitors, inviting them to take off their shoes and walk in sand or share the exhibition space with live, brilliantly colored tropical parrots. Drawing on new research and including previously unseen works, this is the most extensive publication yet on this crucial Latin American artist."--Amazon.

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Museum of Fine Arts (Houston)

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0890901503

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The São Paulo Neo-Avant-Garde

Radical Art and Mass Print Media in Cold War Brazil

By: Mari Rodríguez Binnie

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Radical Art and Mass Print Media in Cold War Brazil

By: Mari Rodríguez Binnie

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Inverted Utopias

Inverted Utopias

Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?

Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?

The São Paulo Neo-Avant-Garde

The São Paulo Neo-Avant-Garde

Modern and Contemporary Masterworks from Malba - Fundación Costantini

Modern and Contemporary Masterworks from Malba - Fundación Costantini

Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?

Resisting Categories: Latin American and/or Latino?

Cosmopolitan Routes

Cosmopolitan Routes

Inverted Utopias

Inverted Utopias

Questioning the Line

Questioning the Line

Hélio Oiticica

Hélio Oiticica

The São Paulo Neo-Avant-Garde

The São Paulo Neo-Avant-Garde

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