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Manufacturer: University of Texas Press

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 709.80904
EAN: 9780292708587
ISBN: 0292708580
Label: University of Texas Press
Manufacturer: University of Texas Press
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: 2001-03-15
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Studio: University of Texas Press

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The twentieth-century art of Latin America is art in the western tradition, and its leading figures--Wifredo Lam, Roberto Matta, Diego Rivera, Joaquín Torres-García, to name only a few--have achieved international stature. Yet much of the writing about this art has offered either a victimized view of an art tradition dominated by foreign models or a romanticized view of what Latin American art should be. This pathfinding book, by contrast, seeks not to "invent" Latin American art but to look at it from the points of view of its own artists and critics. Drawing on some forty years of studying and teaching Latin American art, Jacqueline Barnitz surveys the major currents and artists of the twentieth century in Mexico, the Caribbean, and South America (including Brazil). She progresses chronologically from modernismo and the break with nineteenth-century academic art to some of the trends of the 1980s, setting each movement within its historical and cultural contexts. This grand survey of modern Latin American art will thus be the essential guide to a vibrant art tradition, as well as a vital teaching tool. Lavishly illustrated with color and black-and-white reproductions of major works, it will be useful to artists, collectors, historians, writers, and social scientists, as well as art historians.

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Customer Rating: Summary: Best Latin American Contemporary Art Book! Comment: This is certainly one of the most important ane best works on Latin American Art ever written. Her vast experience in the field and extensive research contibutes to the excellent layout and structure of the book. Great as personal reference or college textbook!

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