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Overview"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." Full Product DetailsAuthor: Aarnoud RommensPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Weight: 0.367kg ISBN: 9781032179445ISBN 10: 1032179449 Pages: 200 Publication Date: 30 September 2021 Audience: College/higher education , Tertiary & Higher Education Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents"1. Introduction: The Routes to Roots of Joaquín Torres-García’s South American Abstraction 2. Constructive Universalism’s ‘Theoretical Eye’: Vitalism, Arkhétectonics and Grafismo 3. Tactics of A-Semiosis 4. Writing/Drawing the Universal by Hand: Abstraction’s Unruliness 5. Emblematics, ""The School of the South"" and the Inversion of Maps 6. Thick Grids and the Scrapbooking of the Universal Conclusion: Reverting South"ReviewsAuthor InformationAarnoud Rommens is BeIPD-COFUND/Marie Curie Post-Doctoral Fellow at Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres, University of Liège, Belgium. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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