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Item Details
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JOAQUIN TORRES-GARCIA
CONSTRUCTING ABSTRACTION WITH WOOD |
| By: |
Mari Carmen Ramirez, Margit Rowell, Cecilia De Torres |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£45.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0300154011 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780300154016 |
| Publisher: |
YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
20 October, 2009 |
| Series: |
Menil Collection |
| Pages: |
256 |
| Description: |
Joaquin Torres-Garcia (1874-1949) is one of the most influential artists to have emerged from Latin America in the early 20th century. This book focuses on Torres-Garcia's wood constructions and accompanies the first exhibition held in North America of these works and the solo exhibition of the artist in the United States. |
| Synopsis: |
Joaquin Torres-Garcia (1874-1949) is one of the most influential artists to have emerged from Latin America in the early 20th century. His unique innovations in the medium of wood - constructed three-dimensional grids and planes known as maderas - foreshadow later artistic developments in Europe and the Americas (such as the work of Louise Nevelson). Torres-Garcia was also much celebrated for his work as a modernist painter, teacher, and author. This handsome catalog focuses on Torres-Garcia's wood constructions and accompanies the first exhibition held in North America of these works and the first solo exhibition of the artist in the United States in over forty years. It includes essays by prominent scholars that discuss the creation of the maderas and their place in the debates surrounding abstract art in Paris in the late 1920s and early 1930s and in Montevideo, his hometown in Uruguay, in the late 1930s and 40s. It also includes newly translated writings by the artist. |
| Illustrations: |
200 black-&-white + colour illustrations |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Yale University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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