The Art Of Joaquín Torres García

Author : Aarnoud Rommens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781315527567

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The Art of Joaquín Torres-García by Aarnoud Rommens Pdf

Intertwining art history, aesthetic theory, and Latin American studies, Aarnoud Rommens challenges contemporary Eurocentric revisions of the history of abstraction through this study of the Uruguayan artist Joaquín Torres-García. After studying and painting (for decades) in Europe, Torres-García returned in 1934 to his native home, Montevideo, with the dream of reawakening and revitalizing what he considered the true indigenous essence of Latin American art: "Abstract Spirit." Rommens rigorously analyses the paradoxes of the painter's aesthetic-philosophical doctrine of Constructive Universalism as it sought to adapt European geometric abstraction to the Americas. Whereas previous scholarship has dismissed Torres-García's theories as self-contradictory, Rommens seeks to recover their creative potential as well as their role in tracing the transatlantic routes of the avant-garde. Through the highly original method of reading Torres-García's artworks as a critique on the artist's own writings, Rommens reveals how Torres-García appropriates the colonial language of primitivism to construct the artificial image of "pure" pre-Columbian abstraction. Torres-García thereby inverts the history of art: this book teases out the important lessons of this gesture and the implications for our understanding of abstraction today.

Author : Luis Pérez Oramas,Alexander Alberro,Sergio Chejfec,Estrella de Diego,Geaninne Gutiérrez-Guimarães
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Arte-
ISBN : 0870709755

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Arcadian Modern by Luis Pérez Oramas,Alexander Alberro,Sergio Chejfec,Estrella de Diego,Geaninne Gutiérrez-Guimarães Pdf

Joaquín Torres-García (Uruguayan, 1874-1949) is one of the most complex and emblematic modern masters from the first half of the 20th century, whose work determined transformational paths for modern art on both sides of the Atlantic. Manifesting a profound impulse toward the avant-garde as much as the primitive, and stressing a schematic impulsion alongside a permanent fascination with the notion of utopia, he participated in some of the most crucial intellectual and artistic discussions of the past century. His personal involvement with a significant number of early Modern and avant-garde movements, from Catalan Noucentismo to Cubism, Ultraism- Vibrationism, and Neo-Plasticism, make him an unparalleled figure in the history of modernism in the Americas. Published in conjunction with the first major, all-inclusive retrospective of the artist's work in the US since the 1970s, this richly illustrated publication presents Torres-García's long and wide-ranging career, from the late 19th century to the 1940s, and includes drawings, paintings, objects and sculptures. Combining a chronological presentation with a thematic approach, the book is organized into five separate essays with interspersed plates, following an illustrated chronology and an extensive bibliography.

Author : Aarnoud Rommens
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781315527550

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The Art of Joaquín Torres-García by Aarnoud Rommens Pdf

Intertwining art history, aesthetic theory, and Latin American studies, Aarnoud Rommens challenges contemporary Eurocentric revisions of the history of abstraction through this study of the Uruguayan artist Joaquín Torres-García. After studying and painting (for decades) in Europe, Torres-García returned in 1934 to his native home, Montevideo, with the dream of reawakening and revitalizing what he considered the true indigenous essence of Latin American art: "Abstract Spirit." Rommens rigorously analyses the paradoxes of the painter's aesthetic-philosophical doctrine of Constructive Universalism as it sought to adapt European geometric abstraction to the Americas. Whereas previous scholarship has dismissed Torres-García's theories as self-contradictory, Rommens seeks to recover their creative potential as well as their role in tracing the transatlantic routes of the avant-garde. Through the highly original method of reading Torres-García's artworks as a critique on the artist's own writings, Rommens reveals how Torres-García appropriates the colonial language of primitivism to construct the artificial image of "pure" pre-Columbian abstraction. Torres-García thereby inverts the history of art: this book teases out the important lessons of this gesture and the implications for our understanding of abstraction today.

Author : Joaquín Torres-García
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015041348528

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Joaquin Torres-Garcia (1874-1949) by Joaquín Torres-García Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Rizzoli Publications
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780847864027

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The Worlds of Joaquín Torres-García by Anonim Pdf

One of the most revered Latin American artists of the early 20th century, best known for his abstract and primitive paintings, with key works from private collections published for the first time. With 70 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper, this is the largest survey of Torres-García’s work to be on view in an American gallery since Joaquín Torres-García curated his own exhibition at the Sidney Janis Gallery in 1950. The book includes previously unpublished texts by the artist and iconic works that were kept by the family as representative examples of different moments in his career, first by the artist and later by family members who inherited them as a group. Torres-García founded the avant-garde group Circle and Square (Arp, Kandinsky, Léger, Mondrian), where he was inspired by indigenous art from the Americas, Africa, and Oceania, which reinforced his vision of symbols and cosmic order.

Author : Joaquín Torres-García,Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172100480180

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Joaquin Torres-García, 1874-1949 by Joaquín Torres-García,Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery Pdf

Author : Joaquín Torres-García,Rose Fried Gallery,Dario Suro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173023389180

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Joaquin Torres García, 1874-1949 by Joaquín Torres-García,Rose Fried Gallery,Dario Suro Pdf

Author : Joaquín Torres-García,Mari Carmen Ramírez,Margit Rowell
Publisher : Menil Foundation
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300154011

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Joaquín Torres-García by Joaquín Torres-García,Mari Carmen Ramírez,Margit Rowell Pdf

Joaqu�n Torres-Garc�a (1874-1949) is one of the most influential artists to have emerged from Latin America in the early 20th century. His unique innovations in the medium of wood--constructed three-dimensional grids and planes known as maderas--foreshadow later artistic developments in Europe and the Americas (such as the work of Louise Nevelson). Torres-Garc�a was also much celebrated for his work as a modernist painter, teacher, and author. This handsome catalogue focuses on Torres-Garc�a’s wood constructions and accompanies the first exhibition held in North America of these works and the first solo exhibition of the artist in the United States in over forty years. It includes essays by prominent scholars that discuss the creation of the maderas and their place in the debates surrounding abstract art in Paris in the late 1920s and early 1930s and in Montevideo, his hometown in Uruguay, in the late 1930s and 40s. It also includes newly translated writings by the artist.

Author : Joaquín Torres-García
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X006108881

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Joaquin Torres-Garcia, 1874-1949 by Joaquín Torres-García Pdf

Author : Joaquín Torres-García
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173023388960

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Joaquín Torres-García by Joaquín Torres-García Pdf

Author : Dario Suro,Badische Neueste Nachrichten
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258660938

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Joaquin Torres Garcia, 1874-1949 by Dario Suro,Badische Neueste Nachrichten Pdf

Author : Joaquín Torres-García
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:84943229

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Joaquin Torres Garcia by Joaquín Torres-García Pdf

Author : Héctor Olea Galaviz,Mari Carmen Ramírez,Mari Carmen Ramirez,Héctor Olea,Hector Olea Hernandez
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 51,6 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 : Joaquín Torres-García,Jorge Castillo,Theo van Doesburg
Publisher : Distributed Art Publishers (DAP)
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Photography
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173001045916

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The Antagonistic Link by Joaquín Torres-García,Jorge Castillo,Theo van Doesburg Pdf

Author : Claudio Palomares-Salas
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004406773

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The Spatiality of the Hispanic Avant-Garde by Claudio Palomares-Salas Pdf

The Spatiality of the Hispanic Avant-Ultraísmo & Estridentismo, 1918-1927 is a thorough and original exploration of place and space in the work of the Hispanic vanguards; a transatlantic study that will surely join international discussions on space and modernism.