ABSTRACT
This edited volume examines the history of abstract art across Latin America after 1945. This form of art grew in popularity across the Americas in the postwar period, often serving to affirm a sense of being modern and the right of Latin America to assume the leading role Europe had played before World War II. Latin American artists practiced gestural and geometric abstraction, though the history of art has favored the latter. Recent scholarship, for instance, has focused on geometric abstraction from Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela. The book aims to expand the map and consider this phenomenon as it developed in neglected regions such as Central America and the Andes, investigatinghow this style came to stand in for Latin American contemporary art.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|57 pages
Gestural Abstractions
chapter 1|14 pages
Informalism between Surrealism and Concrete Art
chapter 3|25 pages
The Painting Devoured
part II|70 pages
New Visions of Geometric Abstraction
chapter 5|20 pages
Negotiating Afro-Brazilian Abstraction
chapter 6|17 pages
Fighting for the Abstract
chapter 7|16 pages
Beyond Abstraction
part III|51 pages
Nuestra América
part IV|51 pages
Abstraction and the Avant-Garde