Research Catalog

Title

Joaquín Torres García : obra viva / director, Alejandro Díaz Lageard, Beatriz Bustos Oyanedel.

Publication

[Santiago, Chile] : Centro Cultural La Moneda, [2019]

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Additional Authors

• Bustos Oyanedel, Beatriz,
• Centro Cultural Palacio La Moneda (Chile), issuing body, host institution.
• Díaz, Alejandro,
• Museo Torres-García, issuing body.
• Torres-García, Joaquín, 1874-1949.

Description

163 pages, 18 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits; 26 cm +

Summary

Joaquín Torres García (1874-1949) was born in Montevideo and emigrated to Barcelona with his parents at the age of 17. His life was marked by travel and constant uprooting: Madrid, Paris, and New York gave him new perspectives on the city and on modern ways of life. The exhibitionœs approach is unprecedented, product of a co-curatorship between Alejandro Díaz, director of the Museo Torres García de Montevideo -institution that houses most of the artistœs work- and the CCLM team, headed by Beatriz Bustos Oyanedel. Interwined troughout ten chapters and over 150 works are glimpses of the artistœs complementary facets as a painter, mentor, and father, accurately reflecting the wide span of his intellectual ideas. Works form his early period, closer to pictorial tradition, such as Retrato del Señor Gandelbeu (made when he was 12 years old), are featured in dialogue with other paintings executed on canvas, paper, cardboard and wood; collages; articulated toys; letters; conferences; photographs; publications; and the desk that supported his creative process. Featured in the exhibition is also the emblematic artwork América Invertida (1943); the eloquent drawing summarizes his postulates and represents an invitation for artists to emphatically observe the aesthetic production of indigenous people and, only from there looking at Latin America from Latin America to create and advance an avant-garde that is genuinely new for the continent.

Uniform Title

• Joaquín Torres García.
• Joaquín Torres García. English.

Alternative Title

• Obra viva
• Tradición del hombre abstracto : doctrina constructiva.

Subject

• Torres-García, Joaquín, 1874-1949
• Torres-García, Joaquín, 1874-1949 > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs

Note

• Issued with facsimile booklet "La tradición del hombre abstracto : doctrina constructiva" - Montevideo, 1938.
• Published on the occasion of the exhibition held between April 12 and July 28, 2019 at the La Moneda Cultural Center in Santiago, Chile.
• "Exposición organizada por el Centro Cultural La Moneda en colaboración con el Museo Torres Garcia, abril- julio 2019"--Facing Title Page.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• Texts in Spanish and English.

Contents

• TEXTOS EN INGLÉS -- Art and Life: Joaquín Torres García / Beatriz Bustos Oyanedel -- A lesson from the teacher / Alejandro Diaz Lageard -- Children and the Canon / Rodrigo Fló -- Training course for artistic awareness / Joaquín Torres García.
• Presentación -- Arte y vida: Joaquín Torres García / Beatriz Bustos Oyanedel -- Una lección del maestro / Alejandro Diaz Lageard -- El niño y el canon / Rodrigo Fló -- Curso para la formación de la conciencia artística / Joaquín Torres García -- I. Consideraciones generales -- II. Lo que debe proponerse el maestro con la enseñanza del dibujo -- III. Método que podría proponerse para conseguir la finalidad de lo que debe ser el dibujo en la escuela -- .

ISBN

• 9789568529611
• 9568529616

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries