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Abstraction in Reverse: The Reconfigured Spectator in Mid-Twentieth-Century Latin American Art
Alexander Alberro
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 368 pages, 58 color plates, 17 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KL; 3JJ; ACXD9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 177. .
During the mid-twentieth century, Latin American artists working in several different cities radically altered the nature of modern art. Reimagining the relationship of art to its public, these artists granted the spectator a greater role than ever before in the realization of the artwork. The first book to explore this phenomenon on an international scale, Abstraction in Reverse traces the movement as it evolved across South America and parts of Europe. Alexander Alberro demonstrates that artists such as Tomas Maldonado, Jesus Soto, Julio Le Parc, and Lygia Clark, in breaking with the core tenets of the form of abstract art known as Concrete art, redefined the role of both the artist and the spectator. Instead of manufacturing autonomous artworks prior to the act of viewing, these artists presented a range of projects that required the spectator in order to be complete. Importantly, as Alberro shows, these artists set aside regionalist art in favor of a modernist approach that transcended the traditions of any nation-state. Along the way, the artists fundamentally altered the concept of the subject and of how art should address its audience, a revolutionary development with parallels in the greater art world.
Product Details
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226393957
SKU
V9780226393957
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About Alexander Alberro
Alexander Alberro is the Virginia Wright Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at Barnard College and Columbia University.
Reviews for Abstraction in Reverse: The Reconfigured Spectator in Mid-Twentieth-Century Latin American Art
Alberro's impressive approach to post-Concrete Latin American art sets the stage for a new understanding of modernity as it demonstrates how artists, by reconceiving the spectatorial functioning of abstraction, critically dismantled the modern myth of art autonomy.
Luis P rez-Oramas, Latin American Art Curator, The Museum of Modern Art In this stimulating book Alexander Alberro mines fields well known to scholars of modern Latin American artists in a way that sheds new light. . .Alberro's book is an invigorating refresher course for those deeply immersed in this material and of immense use to the neophyte in matters of mid-twentieth-century art in the Americas.
The Burlington Magazine This book nuances the history of modernist abstraction...the art reproduced is wonderful to see. Recommended.
Choice Abstraction in Reverse deftly traces South American cultural processes and their ties to European traditions without neglecting the specifics of their individual trajectories. This is a compelling read.
Mar a Amalia Garc a, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cient ficas y T cnicas Abstraction in Reverse is a must-read for anyone interested in abstract art, its histories, and the different narratives we tell when faced with an increasingly global world.
Kaira M. Caba as, author of Off-Screen Cinema: Isidore Isou and the Lettrist Avant-Garde Engaging and accessible, Abstraction in Reverse astutely explores the question of art's place in society and the surprising extent to which seemingly speculative debates about the framing of modern art can impact the political agenda of the revolutionary Left.
Bruno Bosteels, author of Marx and Freud in Latin America: Politics, Psychoanalysis, and Religion in Times of Terror Abstraction in Reverse offers an urgently needed postcolonial perspective for the study of Latin American art and provides new concepts for exploring visual culture at the crossroads of modernity and globalization.
Andrea Giunta, author of Avant-Garde, Internationalism, and Politics: Argentine Art in the Sixties
Luis P rez-Oramas, Latin American Art Curator, The Museum of Modern Art In this stimulating book Alexander Alberro mines fields well known to scholars of modern Latin American artists in a way that sheds new light. . .Alberro's book is an invigorating refresher course for those deeply immersed in this material and of immense use to the neophyte in matters of mid-twentieth-century art in the Americas.
The Burlington Magazine This book nuances the history of modernist abstraction...the art reproduced is wonderful to see. Recommended.
Choice Abstraction in Reverse deftly traces South American cultural processes and their ties to European traditions without neglecting the specifics of their individual trajectories. This is a compelling read.
Mar a Amalia Garc a, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cient ficas y T cnicas Abstraction in Reverse is a must-read for anyone interested in abstract art, its histories, and the different narratives we tell when faced with an increasingly global world.
Kaira M. Caba as, author of Off-Screen Cinema: Isidore Isou and the Lettrist Avant-Garde Engaging and accessible, Abstraction in Reverse astutely explores the question of art's place in society and the surprising extent to which seemingly speculative debates about the framing of modern art can impact the political agenda of the revolutionary Left.
Bruno Bosteels, author of Marx and Freud in Latin America: Politics, Psychoanalysis, and Religion in Times of Terror Abstraction in Reverse offers an urgently needed postcolonial perspective for the study of Latin American art and provides new concepts for exploring visual culture at the crossroads of modernity and globalization.
Andrea Giunta, author of Avant-Garde, Internationalism, and Politics: Argentine Art in the Sixties