Dematerialization and the social materiality of art : experimental forms in Argentina, 1955-1968 / Elize Mazadiego.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mazadiego, Elize, 1981- author.

Series:

Foro Hispánico ; 62.

Foro Hispánico ; 62

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Argentine--20th century.

Art, Argentine.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics)--Argentina--History--20th century.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics).

Art and society--Argentina--History--20th century.

Art and society.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill Rodopi, [2021]

Summary:

"Dematerialization and the Social Materiality of Art reconceptualizes mid-twentieth-century avant-garde practices in Argentina with a focus on the changing material status of the art object in relation to the country's intense period of modernization. Elize Mazadiego presents Oscar Masotta's notion of dematerialization as a concept for interpreting experimental art practices that negated the object's primacy, while identifying their promise within the sociopolitical transformations of the 1950s and 1960s. She argues that, in abandoning the traditional art object, the avant-garde developed new materialities rooted in Buenos Aires' changing social life. A critical examination of art's materiality and its social role within Argentina, this important study paves the way for broader investigations of postwar Latin American art"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Outgrowth of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of California, San Diego, 2015, under the title: Dematerialization in the Argentine context : experiments in the avant-garde in the 1960s.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

90-04-45788-7

OCLC:

1233022347

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004457881 DOI