Research Catalog

Title

Contra el canon : el arte contemporáneo en un mundo sin centro / Andrea Giunta.

Author

Giunta, Andrea

Publication

• Buenos Aires, Argentina : Siglo Veintiuno Editores, [2020]
• ©2020

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Description

238 pages : illustrations, facsimiles; 23 cm

Summary

The fall of Paris during World War II marks a turning point in cultural history: the art world becomes a centerless space. With Europe devastated, the utopian impulse, the imagination that it was possible to delineate a future for forms, moves and begins to take place in different settings. After the postwar period, and especially since the sixties, the transformation of languages,typical of the avant-garde and neo-avant-garde unfolds from different scenes in a plot of simultaneities: everywhere and at the same time. Focusing on Latin American art, Andrea Giunta uses a comparative view that manages to break the evolutionary model and demonstrate that innovation does not occur in one place and then replicates in another, as a mechanism that radiates from the centers to the peripheries. The territory in which he tests his hypotheses is broad: the post-war avant-gardes in Buenos Aires, Mexico and Brazil; indigenismo and its reappropriation of traditions, from Xul Solar and Torres García to Punto Poncho; the postcolonial plot in Mohamedi's work and the Brazilian abstraction; Joan Miró and solidarity with Chile; the arguments and platform of second wave feminism in the Ramona de Berni series and Godard's filmography; the sixties and the explosion of the happening, between the Cold War, revolution and dictatorships.

Series Statement

Arte y pensamiento

Uniform Title

Arte y pensamiento

Alternative Title

Arte contemporáneo en un mundo sin centro

Subject

• 2000-2099
• Art, Modern > 21st century
• Aesthetics, Modern > 21st century
• Aesthetics, Modern
• Art, Modern

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Language (note)

• In Spanish.

Contents

Introducción -- Adiós a la periferia. La multiplicación de los centros en el arte de la posguerra -- Indigenismo abstracto. Citas prehispánicas y metáforas de enraizamiento: un archivo visual de las vanguardias y las neovanguardias -- Abstracciones simultaneas. Nasreen Maohamedi y la abstracción brasileña: lecturas modernas, decoloniales y comparativas -- Joan Miro y la solidaridad con Chile. Las obras que el artista donó al pueblo de Chile como un manifiesto contra de la dictadura -- Ramona vive su vida. Antonio Berni, Jean-Luc Godard,: derechos, moral y violencia en las representaciones de la prostitución en los años sesenta -- Pueblo, masa, multitud. Tres nociones en ficción en los imaginarios de la revolución -- La comunicación como un happeningʺ global. La imaginación predigital en el arte de los anos setenta: simultaneidades y anticipaciones entre la Guerra Fría, la revolución y las dictaduras -- Imaginarios de la desestabilización. Paranoia y complot como matrices de la crítica de las instituciones de arte.

ISBN

• 9876299859
• 9789876299855

OCLC

• on1159125964
• 1159125964
• SCSB-9741401

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library