Artist, educator, curator, and critic Luis Camnitzer has been
writing about contemporary art ever since he left his native
Uruguay in 1964 for a fellowship in New York City. As a transplant
from the "periphery" to the "center," Camnitzer has had to confront
fundamental questions about making art in the Americas, asking
himself and others: What is "Latin American art"? How does it
relate (if it does) to art created in the centers of New York and
Europe? What is the role of the artist in exile? Writing about
issues of such personal, cultural, and indeed political import has
long been an integral part of Camnitzer's artistic project, a way
of developing an idiosyncratic art history in which to work out his
own place in the picture.
This volume gathers Camnitzer's most thought-provoking
essays--"texts written to make something happen," in the words of
volume editor Rachel Weiss. They elaborate themes that appear
persistently throughout Camnitzer's work: art world systems versus
an art of commitment; artistic genealogies and how they are
consecrated; and, most insistently, the possibilities for artistic
agency. The theme of "translation" informs the texts in the first
part of the book, with Camnitzer asking such questions as "What is
Latin America, and who asks the question? Who is the artist, there
and here?" The texts in the second section are more historically
than geographically oriented, exploring little-known moments,
works, and events that compose the legacy that Camnitzer draws on
and offers to his readers.
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