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The Mobility of Modernism

Art and Criticism in 1920s Latin America

By (author) Harper Montgomery
Format: Hardback
Publisher: University of Texas Press, Austin, TX, United States
Published: 4th Jul 2017
Dimensions: w 152mm h 229mm d 32mm
Weight: 662g
ISBN-10: 1477312536
ISBN-13: 9781477312537
Barcode No: 9781477312537
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Winner, Arvey Foundation Book Award, Association for Latin American Art, 2018 Many Latin American artists and critics in the 1920s drew on the values of modernism to question the cultural authority of Europe. Modernism gave them a tool for coping with the mobility of their circumstances, as well as the inspiration for works that questioned the very concepts of the artist and the artwork and opened the realm of art to untrained and self-taught artists, artisans, and women. Writing about the modernist works in newspapers and magazines, critics provided a new vocabulary with which to interpret and assign value to the expanding sets of abstracted forms produced by these artists, whose lives were shaped by mobility. The Mobility of Modernism examines modernist artworks and criticism that circulated among a network of cities, including Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Havana, and Lima. Harper Montgomery maps the dialogues and relationships among critics who published in avant-gardist magazines such as Amauta and Revista de Avance and artists such as Carlos Merida, Xul Solar, and Emilio Pettoruti, among others, who championed esoteric forms of abstraction. She makes a convincing case that, for these artists and critics, modernism became an anticolonial stance which raised issues that are still vital today-the tensions between the local and the global, the ability of artists to speak for blighted or unincorporated people, and, above all, how advanced art and its champions can enact a politics of opposition.

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"Montgomery is persuasive in showing the part played by magazines in the circulation of art and criticism in Spanish America." * Hispanic American Historical Review *