Arvey Foundation Book Award, Association for Latin American Art,
2018 Many Latin American artists and critics in the 1920s drew on
the values of modernism to question the cultural authority of
Europe. Modernism gave them a tool for coping with the mobility of
their circumstances, as well as the inspiration for works that
questioned the very concepts of the artist and the artwork and
opened the realm of art to untrained and self-taught artists,
artisans, and women. Writing about the modernist works in
newspapers and magazines, critics provided a new vocabulary with
which to interpret and assign value to the expanding sets of
abstracted forms produced by these artists, whose lives were shaped
by mobility. The Mobility of Modernism examines modernist artworks
and criticism that circulated among a network of cities, including
Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Havana, and Lima. Harper Montgomery maps
the dialogues and relationships among critics who published in
avant-gardist magazines such as Amauta and Revista de Avance and
artists such as Carlos Merida, Xul Solar, and Emilio Pettoruti,
among others, who championed esoteric forms of abstraction. She
makes a convincing case that, for these artists and critics,
modernism became an anticolonial stance which raised issues that
are still vital today-the tensions between the local and the
global, the ability of artists to speak for blighted or
unincorporated people, and, above all, how advanced art and its
champions can enact a politics of opposition.
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