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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The Art of Joaquín Torres-García: Constructive Universalism and the Inversion of Abstraction
Aarnoud Rommens
The Art of Joaquín Torres-García: Constructive Universalism and the Inversion of Abstraction, Tapa suave


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Formato | Tapa suave |
Número de Páginas | 200 |
Lenguaje | Inglés |
Editorial | Routledge |
Fecha de Publicación | 2021-09-30 |
Dimensiones | 9.61" x 6.69" x 0.43" pulgadas |
Letra Grande | No |
Con Ilustraciones | Si |
Temas | América Latina |
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Aarnoud Rommens is BeIPD-COFUND/Marie Curie Post-Doctoral Fellow at Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres, University of Liège, Belgium.
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Peso | 0.73lb |
SKU | 9781032179445 |
Publicado en Unimart.com | 22-01-25 |
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