Alejandro Xul Solar

Author : Mario H. Gradowczyk
Publisher : ABRAMS
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015037421149

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Alejandro Xul Solar by Mario H. Gradowczyk Pdf

This is the first full-scale study of the life and work of Argentine artist Xul Solar (1887-1963), who was born Oscar Agustin Alejandro Schulz Solari in Buenos Aires. A gregarious eccentric, Xul Solar played a prominent role in the Argentine avant-garde of the 1920s, which included Jorge Luis Borges and such visiting luminaries as Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, the Italian Futurist leader. Xul Solar went on to create a number of interrelated verbal and visual languages that expressed his identity as an Argentine/Latin American artist as well as a utopian desire for universal brotherhood. Xul Solar left Argentina in 1911 on his way to the Far East, but he went only as far as Europe, where he remained for twelve years. There he absorbed modernist ideas - Symbolism, Expressionism, and Constructivism - and distilled them in a mixture of wit and whimsy. Xul Solar's first exhibition in Europe was held in Milan in 1910; he returned to Buenos Aires in 1924. By 1918 he had formulated a system of pictorial writing called neocriollo (Neo-Creole), designed to be understood all over Latin America. Xul Solar continued to study languages throughout his life, along with philosophy, astrology, Asian religions, and mysticism, and all of these were reflected in his art. His later works included visionary architectural projects and paintings composed mainly of messages.

Author : Alejandro Xul Solar,Dawn Ades,Courtauld Institute Galleries
Publisher : Conran Octopus
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015056234480

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Xul Solar by Alejandro Xul Solar,Dawn Ades,Courtauld Institute Galleries Pdf

Author : Alejandro Xul Solar,Patricia Artundo
Publisher : Other Distribution
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015063300704

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Xul Solar by Alejandro Xul Solar,Patricia Artundo Pdf

Brings together approximately 150 works of art, books, documents, and manuscripts from Xul Solar's personal archive as well as from public and private collections. This book provides an in-depth study of this artist, one of the most influential in Latin American avant-garde art. It also includes an artistic and biographical chronology.

Author : Alejandro Xul Solar,Jorge Luis Borges,Mario H. Gradowczyk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1990-01-01
Category : Painting
ISBN : 9509976210

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Xul Solar by Alejandro Xul Solar,Jorge Luis Borges,Mario H. Gradowczyk Pdf

Author : Alejandro Xul Solar,Jorge Luis Borges,Americas Society. Art Gallery,Phoenix Art Museum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Painting
ISBN : 1879128829

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Xul Solar and Jorge Luis Borges by Alejandro Xul Solar,Jorge Luis Borges,Americas Society. Art Gallery,Phoenix Art Museum Pdf

Author : Eleni Kefala
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780822988519

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Buenos Aires Across the Arts by Eleni Kefala Pdf

By 1920 Buenos Aires was the largest and most cosmopolitan city of Latin America due to mass immigration from Europe in the previous decades. Unbridled urban expansion had drastic effects on the social and cultural topography of the Argentine capital, raising ideological and aesthetic issues that shaped the modernist landscape of the country. Artists across disciplines responded to these changes with conflicting depictions of urban space. Centering these conflicts as a cognitive map of modernity’s new realities in the city, Buenos Aires across the Arts looks at the interaction between modernity and modernism in literature, photography, film, and painting during the interwar period. This was a time of profound change and heightened cultural activity in Argentina. Eleni Kefala analyzes works by Jorge Luis Borges, Oliverio Girondo, José Ferreyra, Xul Solar, Roberto Arlt, and Horacio Coppola, with a focus on the city of Buenos Aires as a playground of modernity.

Author : Marta Traba
Publisher : Inter-American Development Bank
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780940602731

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Art of Latin America by Marta Traba Pdf

Marta Traba, one of Latin America's most controversial art critics, examines the works of over 1,000 artists from the first 80 years of the 20th century. This book is an indispensable reference for anyone interested in studying the evolution of Latin American art.

Author : Marilyn G. Miller
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-13
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780822377238

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Tango Lessons by Marilyn G. Miller Pdf

From its earliest manifestations on the street corners of nineteenth-century Buenos Aires to its ascendancy as a global cultural form, tango has continually exceeded the confines of the dance floor or the music hall. In Tango Lessons, scholars from Latin America and the United States explore tango's enduring vitality. The interdisciplinary group of contributors—including specialists in dance, music, anthropology, linguistics, literature, film, and fine art—take up a broad range of topics. Among these are the productive tensions between tradition and experimentation in tango nuevo, representations of tango in film and contemporary art, and the role of tango in the imagination of Jorge Luis Borges. Taken together, the essays show that tango provides a kaleidoscopic perspective on Argentina's social, cultural, and intellectual history from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first centuries. Contributors. Esteban Buch, Oscar Conde, Antonio Gómez, Morgan James Luker, Carolyn Merritt, Marilyn G. Miller, Fernando Rosenberg, Alejandro Susti

Author : Robin Fiddian
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2020-01-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1108470440

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Jorge Luis Borges in Context by Robin Fiddian Pdf

Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) is Argentina's most celebrated author. This volume brings together for the first time the numerous contexts in which he lived and worked; from the history of the Borges family and that of modern Argentina, through two world wars, to events including the Cuban Revolution, military dictatorship, and the Falklands War. Borges' distinctive responses to the Western tradition, Cervantes and Shakespeare, Kafka, and the European avant garde are explored, along with his appraisals of Sarmiento, gauchesque literature and other strands of the Argentine cultural tradition. Borges' polemical stance on Catholic integralism in early twentieth-century Argentina is accounted for, whilst chapters on Buddhism, Judaism and landmarks of Persian literature illustrate Borges's engagement with the East. Finally, his legacy is visible in the literatures of the Americas, in European countries such as Italy and Portugal, and in the novels of J. M. Coetzee, representing the Global South.

Author : León Ferrari,Luis Pérez Oramas
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 0870707507

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Tangled Alphabets by León Ferrari,Luis Pérez Oramas Pdf

This exhibition presents new insights into these artists' visual deconstructions of language and examines the connections and collisions among visual art, the word and the social world.

Author : Héctor Olea Galaviz,Mari Carmen Ramírez,Mari Carmen Ramirez,Héctor Olea,Hector Olea Hernandez
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300102697

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Inverted Utopias by Héctor Olea Galaviz,Mari Carmen Ramírez,Mari Carmen Ramirez,Héctor Olea,Hector Olea Hernandez Pdf

In the twentieth century, avant-garde artists from Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean created extraordinary and highly innovative paintings, sculptures, assemblages, mixed-media works, and installations. This innovative book presents more than 250 works by some seventy of these artists (including Gego, Joaquin Torres-Garcia, Xul Solar, and Jose Clemente Orozco) and artists' groups, along with interpretive essays by leading authorities and newly translated manifestoes and other theoretical documents written by the artists. Together the images and texts showcase the astonishing artistic achievements of the Latin American avant-garde. The book focuses on two decisive periods: the return from Europe in the 1920s of Latin American avant-garde pioneers; and the expansion of avant-garde activities throughout Latin America after World War II as artists expressed their independence from developments in Europe and the United States. As the authors explain, during these periods Latin American art was fueled by the belief that artistic creations could present a form of utopia - an inversion of the original premise that drove the European avant-garde - and serve as a model for

Author : Luis Camnitzer
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-07-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 029271629X

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Conceptualism in Latin American Art by Luis Camnitzer Pdf

Conceptualism played a different role in Latin American art during the 1960s and 1970s than in Europe and the United States, where conceptualist artists predominantly sought to challenge the primacy of the art object and art institutions, as well as the commercialization of art. Latin American artists turned to conceptualism as a vehicle for radically questioning the very nature of art itself, as well as art's role in responding to societal needs and crises in conjunction with politics, poetry, and pedagogy. Because of this distinctive agenda, Latin American conceptualism must be viewed and understood in its own right, not as a derivative of Euroamerican models. In this book, one of Latin America's foremost conceptualist artists, Luis Camnitzer, offers a firsthand account of conceptualism in Latin American art. Placing the evolution of conceptualism within the history Latin America, he explores conceptualism as a strategy, rather than a style, in Latin American culture. He shows how the roots of conceptualism reach back to the early nineteenth century in the work of Símon Rodríguez, Símon Bolívar's tutor. Camnitzer then follows conceptualism to the point where art crossed into politics, as with the Argentinian group Tucumán arde in 1968, and where politics crossed into art, as with the Tupamaro movement in Uruguay during the 1960s and early 1970s. Camnitzer concludes by investigating how, after 1970, conceptualist manifestations returned to the fold of more conventional art and describes some of the consequences that followed when art evolved from being a political tool to become what is known as "political art."

Author : Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Art, Latin American
ISBN : UOM:39076001341614

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Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century by Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) Pdf

Account of the rise of modernism in the art of Latin America, published to accompany the exhibition Latin American Artists of the Twentieth Century at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Author : David Hiley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Music
ISBN : 0198165722

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Western Plainchant by David Hiley Pdf

Plainchant is the oldest substantial body of music that has been preserved in any shape or form. It was first written down in Western Europe in the eighth to ninth centuries. Many thousands of chants have been sung at different times or places in a multitude of forms and styles, responding to the differing needs of the church through the ages. This book provides a clear and concise introduction, designed both for those to whom the subject is new and those who require a reference work for advanced study. It begins with an explanation of the liturgies that plainchant was designed to serve. It describes all the chief genres of chant, different types of liturgical book, and plainchant notations. After an exposition of early medieval theoretical writing on plainchant, Hiley provides a historical survey that traces the constantly changing nature of the repertory. He also discusses important musicians and centers of composition. Copiously illustrated with over 200 musical examples, this book highlights the diversity of practice and richness of the chant repertory in the Middle Ages. It will be an indispensable introduction and reference source on this important music for many years to come.

Author : The Getty Conservation Institute
Publisher : Getty Publications
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1991-02-28
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780892361816

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6th International Conference on the Conservation of Earthen Architecture by The Getty Conservation Institute Pdf

On October 14-19, 1990, the 6th International Conference on the Conservation of Earthen Architecture was held in Las Cruces, New Mexico. Sponsored by the GCI, the Museum of New Mexico State Monuments, ICCROM, CRATerre-EAG, and the National Park Service, under the aegis of US/ICOMOS, the event was organized to promote the exchange of ideas, techniques, and research findings on the conservation of earthen architecture. Presentations at the conference covered a diversity of subjects, including the historic traditions of earthen architecture, conservation and restoration, site preservation, studies in consolidation and seismic mitigation, and examinations of moisture problems, clay chemistry, and microstructures. In discussions that focused on the future, the application of modern technologies and materials to site conservation was urged, as was using scientific knowledge of existing structures in the creation of new, low-cost, earthen architecture housing.