Kinesthesia : Latin American kinetic art, 1954-1969 / Dan Cameron ; with essays by Jesús Fuenmayor, María José Herrera, Frederico Morais, Héctor Olea, Cristina Rossi, Isabel Plante.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Palm Springs Art Museum, organizer, host institution.

Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA (Project)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kinetic art--Latin America--Exhibitions.

Kinetic art.

Art, Argentine--20th century--Exhibitions.

Art, Argentine.

Art, Venezuelan--20th century--Exhibitions.

Art, Venezuelan.

Latin America.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

237 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm

Other Title:

Latin American kinetic art, 1954-1969

Place of Publication:

Palm Springs, California : Palm Springs Art Museum ; Munich ; New York, NY : DelMonico Books, an imprint of Prestel, 2017.

Summary:

Kinesthesia: Latin American Kinetic Art, 1954-1969 examines the influential and visually stunning work of South American kinetic artists. While Southern California was becoming the North American epicenter for Light and Space art in the 1960s, separate yet closely related technical experiments had been unfolding in a handful of major cities of South America, as well as in Paris, the European center for kinetic art. 'Kinesthesia' highlights the broad differences that emerged among the two principal South American centers of activity: Argentina, where kinetic art grew out of local debates about painting; and Venezuela, where pioneering notions of modern architecture stimulated a synthesis of art and design. Featured in this volume are kinetic sculptures and installations by Jesus Rafael Soto, Julio Le Parc, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Martha Boto, and others, as well as essays that explore the history of this movement, examine the artists' reception by European and American audiences in the context of the Cold War, and link their achievements to 21st-century artists and their work. Exhibition: Palm Springs Art Museum, USA (26.08.2017 - 15.01.2018).

Contents:

Foreword / Elizabeth Armstrong

Acknowledgments / Dan Cameron

Plates / Martha Boto

Electric Shadows / Dan Cameron

Plates / Carlos Cruz-Diez

Invention and Movement / Cristina Rossi

Plates / Jesús Rafael Soto

Argentina's "Tandem Scene" of Kinetic Art / Maria José Herrera

Plates / Horacio García-Rossi

Plates / Julio Le Parc

A Universal Vocation : Paris as a Cultural Arena for South American Geometric Abstraction from the Postwar Period to the 1960s / Isabel Plante

Plates / Gregorio Vardánega

Abraham Palatnik : A Pioneer of Technological Art / Frederico Morais

Plates / Abraham Palatnik

Kosice Defines the Undefinable : The Poetics of The Hydrospatial City / Héctor Olea

Plate / Gyula Kosice

Kinetic Utopias : On the Road to the Magic Zone / Jesús Fuenmayor

Plates / Alejandro Otero.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Palm Springs Art Museum, August 26, 2017-January 15, 2018 as part of Pacific Standard Time LA/LA.

Contains:

Cameron, Dan. Electric shadows.

ISBN:

9783791356730

3791356739

OCLC:

976036195