Research Catalog

Title

Avant-garde, internationalism, and politics : Argentine art in the sixties / Andrea Giunta ; translated by Peter Kahn.

Author

Giunta, Andrea

Publication

Durham : Duke University Press, 2007.

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Details

Description

xv, 406 p. : ill. (some col.); 25 cm.

Summary

The 1960s were heady years in Argentina. Visual artists, curators, and critics sought to fuse art and politics; to broaden the definition of art to encompass happenings and assemblages; and, above all, to achieve international recognition for new, cutting-edge Argentine art.

Series Statement

Latin America otherwise

Uniform Title

• Vanguardia, internacionalismo y política. English
• Latin America otherwise

Alternative Title

• Vanguardia, internacionalismo y política.
• Argentine art in the sixties

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Art, Argentine > 20th century
• Art > Political aspects > Argentina
• Avant-garde (Aesthetics) > Argentina > History > 20th century
• Argentina > History > 1955-1983

Genre/Form

• Electronic books.
• History

Note

• Translated from the Spanish.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-395) and index.

Language (note)

• Translated from the Spanish.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Modern art on the margins of Peronism -- Proclamations and programs during the Revolución Libertadora -- The "new" art scene -- The avant-garde as problem -- The decentering of the modernist paradigm -- Strategies of internationalization -- The avant-garde between art and politics.

ISBN

• 9780822338772 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0822338777 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9780822338932 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0822338939 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2006102942

OCLC

• 77520698
• SCSB-11221989

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library