Neocolonial : inventing modern Latin American nations / Jorge F. Rivas Pérez and Lynda Klich.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Rivas, Jorge, organizer, contributor, writer of introduction, etc.

Klich, Lynda, organizer, contributor, writer of introduction, etc.

Heinrich, Christoph, writer of introduction, etc.

Garone Gravier, Marina, contributor.

López Uribe, Cristina, contributor.

Ramos, Horacio, contributor.

Kusunoki, Ricardo, editor.

Denver Art Museum, host institution.

Conference Name:

Mayer Center Symposium (20th : 2022 : Denver Art Museum), creator.

Mayer Center Symposium.

Series:

Readings in Latin American studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art, Latin American--20th century--Congresses.

Art, Latin American.

Art, Latin American--Spanish influences--Congresses.

Design--Latin America--20th century--Congresses.

Design.

Architecture--Latin America--20th century--Congresses.

Architecture.

Colonization in art--20th century--Congresses.

Colonization in art.

Congresses and conventions.

conferences.

Physical Description:

vii, 131 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm.

Distribution:

Norman, Oklahoma : University of Oklahoma Press

Place of Publication:

Denver, Colorado : Denver Art Museum, [2024]

Summary:

In the first half of the 1900s, Latin American artists, architects, and designers searched for visual languages that matched the modern identities of their young nations. Surprisingly, many found their answers in the aesthetics of their colonial past. This symposium explores the paradoxical nature of this neocolonialism by examining a wide array of art, from painting and architecture to furniture and graphic design. A group of international scholars will probe the meanings, cultural agendas, and contradictions that emerged when artists in democratic nations grounded their work in the visual regime of imperial Spain at a time of rising consciousness of Indigenous cultures and Panamericanism.

Contents:

Foreword / Christoph Heinrich

Introduction / Jorge F. Rivas Pérez and Lynda Klich

Neocolonial Architecture for a Modern Captial: Carlos Raúl Villanueva's Urban Renewal of El Silencio in Caracas (1942-45) / Jorge F. Rivas Pérez

Casa Zuno: Revolutionary Gesamtkunstwerk / Lynda Klich

Antagonisms: Neocolonial vs. Functionalism in Mexico / Cristina López Uribe

Adobe Modernism: Enrique Camino Brent and Colonial Architecture in Modern Peru / Horacio Ramos

Aesthetics of Excess: Lima's Neocolonial Imaginary (1870-1950) / Ricardo Kusunoki Rodriguez

Martín Noel: Cultural Routes and Pictorial Maps / Carla Guillermina García

Neocolonial Design in Mexico, 1940-1970: From a Lost Heritage to a Modern Vocabulary / Ana Elena Mallet

The Neocolonial in the History of Books and Publishing in Postrevolutionary Mexico / Marina Garone Gravier

Acknowledgments.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1945483156

9781945483158

OCLC:

1431973357