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This edited volume examines the history of abstract art across
Latin America after 1945. This form of art grew in popularity
across the Americas in the postwar period, often serving to affirm
a sense of being modern and the right of Latin America to assume
the leading role Europe had played before World War II. Latin
American artists practiced gestural and geometric abstraction,
though the history of art has favored the latter. Recent
scholarship, for instance, has focused on geometric abstraction
from Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela. The book aims to expand the
map and consider this phenomenon as it developed in neglected
regions such as Central America and the Andes, investigatinghow
this style came to stand in for Latin American contemporary art.
This edited volume examines the history of abstract art across
Latin America after 1945. This form of art grew in popularity
across the Americas in the postwar period, often serving to affirm
a sense of being modern and the right of Latin America to assume
the leading role Europe had played before World War II. Latin
American artists practiced gestural and geometric abstraction,
though the history of art has favored the latter. Recent
scholarship, for instance, has focused on geometric abstraction
from Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela. The book aims to expand the
map and consider this phenomenon as it developed in neglected
regions such as Central America and the Andes, investigatinghow
this style came to stand in for Latin American contemporary art.
The 1950s and early 1960s in Brazil gave birth to a period of
incredible optimism and economic development. In The Affinity of
Neoconcretism, Mariola V. Alvarez argues that the Neoconcretists-a
group of artists and poets working together in Rio de Janeiro from
1959 to 1961-formed an important part of this national
transformation. She maps the interactions of the Neoconcretists and
discusses how the artists and poets collaborated to challenge
existing divides between high and low art and between fields such
as fine art and dance. This book reveals how art and intellectual
work in Brazil occurred within a local political and social context
and also emerged from the transnational movement of artists,
artworks, published materials, and ideas.
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