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Jose Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913), a Mexican graphic artist, lived
during one of Mexico's most chaotic times. The graphic
illustrations he produced for the 'broadsheets', the tabloids of
the day, distributed on the streets of Mexico City became icons of
Revolutionary Mexico, portraying murder, suicides, robberies, and
disasters endured by the citizens, especially the Mestizo, of
Mexico City.
The product of Jacqueline Barnitz's more than forty years of
studying and teaching, Twentieth-Century Art of Latin America
surveys the major currents in and artists of Mexico, the Caribbean,
and South America (including Brazil). This new edition has been
refreshed throughout to include new scholarship on several modern
movements, such as abstraction in the River Plate region and the
Cuban avant-garde. A new chapter covers art since 1990. In all, 30
percent of the images in this edition are new, and thirty-four
additional artists are discussed and illustrated.
This important and welcome volume is the first English-language
anthology of writings on Latin American modern art of the twentieth
century. The book includes some fifty seminal essays and documents
- including statements, interviews, and manifestoes by artists -
that encompass the broad diversity of this emerging field. Many of
these materials are difficult to access and some are translated
here for the first time. Together the selections explore the
breadth and depth of Latin American modern art as well as its
distinctive evolution apart from American and European art history.
Included in this collection are fascinating ideas and insights on
the impact of the avant-garde in the 1920s, the Mexican mural
movement, Surrealism and other fantasy-based styles, modern
architecture, geometric and optical art, concrete and neo-concrete
art, and political conceptualism. For students and scholars of
Latin American art, the volume offers an invaluable collection of
primary and secondary sources.
Bringing together sixty-five primary documents vital to
understanding the history of art in Latin America since 1900,
Patrick Frank shows how modern art developed in Latin America in
this important new work complementing his previous book,
Twentieth-Century Art of Latin America, Revised and Expanded
Edition. Besides autobiographies, manifestos, interviews, and
artists' statements, the editor has assembled material from videos,
blogs, handwritten notebooks, flyers, lectures, and even an
after-dinner speech. As the title suggests, many of the texts have
a polemical or argumentative cast. In these documents, many of
which appear in English for the first time, the artists themselves
describe what they hope to accomplish and what they see as
obstacles. Designed to show how modern art developed in Latin
America, the documents begin with early modern expressions in the
early twentieth century, then proceed through the avant-garde of
the 1920s, the architectural boom of midcentury, and the Cold War
years, and finally conclude with the postmodern artists in the new
century.
Bringing together sixty-five primary documents vital to
understanding the history of art in Latin America since 1900,
Patrick Frank shows how modern art developed in Latin America in
this important new work complementing his previous book,
Twentieth-Century Art of Latin America, Revised and Expanded
Edition. Besides autobiographies, manifestos, interviews, and
artists' statements, the editor has assembled material from videos,
blogs, handwritten notebooks, flyers, lectures, and even an
after-dinner speech. As the title suggests, many of the texts have
a polemical or argumentative cast. In these documents, many of
which appear in English for the first time, the artists themselves
describe what they hope to accomplish and what they see as
obstacles. Designed to show how modern art developed in Latin
America, the documents begin with early modern expressions in the
early twentieth century, then proceed through the avant-garde of
the 1920s, the architectural boom of midcentury, and the Cold War
years, and finally conclude with the postmodern artists in the new
century.
Although it is one of Latin America's most significant postwar art
movements, Nueva Figuracion has long been overlooked in studies of
modern art. In this first comprehensive examination of the
movement, Patrick Frank explores the work of four artists at its
heart--Jorge de la Vega, Luis Felipe Noe, Romulo Maccio, and
Ernesto Deira--to demonstrate the importance of their work in the
transnational development of modern art. The artists were
responding directly to a difficult and chaotic period characterized
by civil strife, frequent changes of government, and economic
shocks. They broke new ground in Latin American art, not only in
their technique, but also in the way they engaged the social,
political, and cultural climate in an Argentina still recovering
from the Peron years. Building on postwar expressionism by working
with unprecedented urgency and abandon, they combined spontaneous
techniques of abstraction with collage elements and figural
subjects. Their works exercised a creative freedom that broke
taboos about the role of the artist in society. Frank combines
analyses of each artist's paintings with discussions of their
social, political, and artistic contexts. He reveals the works'
connections to literature, popular culture, and film, broadening
our understanding of modern art in the early 1960s.
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