Radical Form: Modernist Abstraction in South America Sullivan Megan A.
Radical Form: Modernist Abstraction in South America Sullivan Megan A. A timely reassessment of some of the most daring projects of abstraction from South America.Emphasizing the open-ended and…
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Radical Form: Modernist Abstraction in South America Sullivan Megan A.
A timely reassessment of some of the most daring projects of abstraction from South America.Emphasizing the open-ended and self-critical nature of the projects of abstraction in South America from the 1930s through the mid-1960s, this important new volume focuses on the artistic practices of Joaqun Torres-Garca, Toms Maldonado, Alejandro Otero, and Lygia Clark. Megan A. Sullivan thoughtfully explores the diverse ways this skepticism of modernization and social and political change was expressed. Sullivan positions the adoption of modernist abstraction by South American artists as part of a larger critique of the economic and social transformations caused by Latin America's state-led programs of rapid industrialization.
Ultimately, the book makes it clear that abstraction in South America was understood not as an artistic style to be followed but as a means to imagine a
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