Readings in Latin American modern art / edited by Patrick Frank.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Frank, Patrick, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Latin American--20th century.

Art, Latin American.

Physical Description:

xii, 271 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2004]

Summary:

This important and welcome volume is the first English-language anthology of writings on Latin American modern art of the twentieth century. The book includes some fifty seminal essays and documents -- including statements, interviews, and manifestoes by artists -- that encompass the broad diversity of this emerging field. Many of these materials are difficult to access, and some are translated here for the first time. Together the selections explore the breadth and depth of Latin American modern art as well as its distinctive evolution apart from American and European art history.

Included in this collection are fascinating ideas and insights on the impact of the avant-garde in the 1920s, the Mexican mural movement, Surrealism and other fantasy-based styles, modern architecture, geometric and optical art, concrete and neoconcrete art, and political conceptualism. For students and scholars of Latin American art, the volume offers an invaluable collection of primary and secondary sources.

Contents:

The Cuban-Chinese Cook Patrick Frank ix

1. Early Modern Currents

Saturnino Herran: "Our Gods" Mural Project / Jacinto Quirarte 3

Dr. Atl / MacKinley Helm 5

Untitled Statements / Armando Reveron 10

Manifesto of Martin Fierro 12

Don Pedro Figari / Ricardo Guiraldes 14

Regional Autonomy / Pedro Figari 17

Emilio Pettoruti / Xul Solar 19

The Situation of the Modern Artist / Emilio Pettoruti 22

Anthropophagite Manifesto / Oswald de Andrade 24

Manifesto of the Grupo Minorista: Havana, 7 May 1927 28

2. Figural Realist Styles

Manifesto of the Union of Mexican Workers, Technicians, Painters, and Sculptors 33

Rockefellers Ban Lenin in RCA Mural and Dismiss Rivera 36

Diego Rivera's Mural in the Palace of Fine Arts / Rafael Angel Herrerias 43

Orozco "Explains" / Jose Clemente Orozco 48

Francisco Goitia: Tata Jesucristo / Hayden Herrera 51

Los Tres Jircas (The Three Peaks) / Enrique Lopez Albujar 54

Latin America Faces the Quincentenary: An Interview with Oswaldo Guayasamin / Fred Murphy 61

3. Fantasy and Surrealism in the Mid-Twentieth Century

Haitian Art ... How It Started / DeWitt Peters 67

A Visit with Hector Hyppolite / Selden Rodman 73

A World Created by Magic: Excerpts from a Conversation with Andre Pierre / Donald Cosentino 76

Frida Kahlo's Bus Accident / Martha Zamora 79

Leonora Carrington / Marie-Pierre Colle 81

Two Theories of Contemporary Mexican Painting / Marta Traba 86

Syncretism and Syntax in the Art of Wifredo Lam / Lowery S. Sims 91

4. Major Architectural Projects

Aula Magna Hall / Paulina Villanueva 103

Olympic Stadium / Paulina Villanueva 105

Modernity in Mexico: The Case of the Ciudad Universitaria / Celia Ester Arredando Zambrano 107

Brasilia / Valerie Fraser 117

5. Non-Objective and Informalist Modes of Abstraction

The New Art of America / Joaquin Torres-Garcia 135

Inventionist Manifesto 142

The Founding of Madi / Gyula Kosice 144

Madi Manifesto / Gyula Kosice 146

An Interview with Fernando de Szyszlo / Alvaro Medina 148

Alejandro Obregon / Marta Traba 154

6. Constructivist and Neo-Concrete Art

GRAV Manifesto: Transforming the Current Situation in Plastic Art 161

Color and the History of Painting / Carlos Cruz-Diez 164

Reflections on Color / Carlos Cruz-Diez 166

Artist's Statement / Alejandro Otero 168

Serialization / Jesus Rafael Soto 170

Artist's Statement / Jesus Rafael Soto 171

Neo-Concrete Manifesto / Ferreira Gullar 172

Beasts [Bichos] 1960 / Lygia Clark 176

Tropicalia: March 4, 1968 / Helio Oiticica 177

"Tropicalia" / Caetano Veloso 180

Afro-Brazilian Symbolism in the Art of Rubem Valentim / Henry John Drewal 182

7. Postwar Figural Art

The Cactus Curtain / Jose Luis Cuevas 187

Chaos as a Structure / Luis Felipe Noe 194

A Latin Answer to Pop / Jacqueline Barnitz 199

The Perils of Popularity: An Interview with Fernando Botero / Cristina Carrillo de Albornoz 203

The Death of a Mural Movement / Eva Cockcroft 209

An Interview with Luis Cruz Azaceta / Friedhelm Mennekes 212

In the Studio: Miguel Von Dangel / Ricardo Pau-Llosa 218

8. As a New Century Turns

Cries from the Wilderness / Lawrence Wechsler 223

Everyone Needs a Madonna: A Visit with Gonzalo Diaz 227

The Catherwood Project / Leandro Katz 230

Miami No Es Los Estados Unidos / Susan Valdes-Dapena 233

Miguel Angel Rios: Epics from the Earth / Frederick Ted Castle 237

Impossible Weavings / Cecilia Vicuna 242

Nahum Zenil's Con Todo Respeto / Eduardo de Jesus Douglas 247

Marks of the Journey: Roberto Merino and Eugenio Dittborn 250.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-266) and index.

ISBN:

0300102550

OCLC:

53361340