Antonio Berni : Juanito and Ramona / by Mari Carmen Ramírez and Marcelo E. Pacheco ; with essays by Guillermo David, Andrea Giunta, Héctor Olea, Marcelo E. Pacheco, Mari Carmen Ramírez and Michael Wellen ; edited by Héctor Olea and Mari Carmen Ramírez.
"This book was published to accompany the exhibition of the same title that was presented at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, November 10, 2013-January 26, 2014. This exhibition was organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and Malba - Fundacion Costantini, Buenos Aires."--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Juanito Laguna and Ramona Montiel, Two Extinct Creations / Marcelo E. Pacheco -- Berni and His Reality without "isms" / Hector Olea -- Antonio Berni's Savage Mind: Social Lyricism, Dreamlike Kitsch, and Technical Innovation / Guillermo David -- Ramona Lives Her Life / Andrea Giunta -- Juanito and Ramona in Paris: Everyday Myths or Third-World Icons? /Mari Carmen Ramirez -- Reaching New Jersey: Antonio Berni in the United States / Michael Wellen -- Plates -- Period Texts -- Chronology of Juanito and Ramona, 1959-1980 /Victoria Giraudo and Ines Berni.
Summary:
"Argentinian figurative artist Antonio Berni (1905-1981) is known for his aesthetic originality and for art steeped in social commentary. In the 1950s, he inaugurated a series of works that documented the lives of two fictional characters, Juanito Laguna and Ramona Montiel. Through the stories of Juanito, a denizen of Argentina's shantytowns, and Ramona, who rises from the working class to the upper echelons of society, Berni addressed topics from industrialization to neocolonialism to economic backwardness and their effects on the population of underdeveloped countries. Written by leading scholars of Latin American art, this handsome volume presents the first comprehensive survey of the internationally acclaimed Juanito and Ramona series. Richly illustrated with more than 250 color images, the volume brings together nearly two decades of Berni's monumental, mixed-media reliefs and assemblages, experimental works on paper, and sculptural constructions made of found, everyday objects. "-- Provided by publisher. ""Antonio Berni (1905-1981), the painter, writer, printmaker, and master of the innovative medium of assemblage, not only influenced several generations of Argentine artists but was also a paradigm for Latin American art of the twentieth century"--Provided by publisher"-- Provided by publisher.
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