书名： Radical Form: Modernist Abstraction in South America / 激进形式：南美洲的现代抽象主义
定价：458.0
ISBN：9780300254020
作者：Megan A. Sullivan
版次：1
出版时间：2022-06

内容提要：

题 目：Radical Form: Modernist Abstraction in South America / 激进形式：南美洲的现代抽象主义

作 者：Megan A. Sullivan

出 版：Yale University Press，2022

装 帧：精装，232页

尺 寸：20.8*25.1 cm

语 种：英语

 

 

A timely reassessment of some of the most daring projects of abstraction from South America

 

Emphasizing the open-ended and self-critical nature of the projects of abstraction in South America from the 1930s through the mid-1960s, this important new volume focuses on the artistic practices of Joaquín Torres-García, Tomás Maldonado, Alejandro Otero, and Lygia Clark. Megan A. Sullivan positions the adoption of modernist abstraction by South American artists as part of a larger critique of the economic and social transformations caused by Latin America’s state-led programs of rapid industrialization.

 

Sullivan thoughtfully explores the diverse ways this skepticism of modernization and social and political change was expressed. Ultimately, the book makes it clear that abstraction in South America was understood not as an artistic style to be followed but as a means to imagine a universalist mode of art, a catalyst for individual and collective agency, and a way to express a vision of a better future for South American society.