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Author:

Benezra, Karen, 1982- author.

Title:

Dematerialization : art and design in Latin America / Karen Benezra.

Publisher:

University of California Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

xii, 236 pages ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Masotta, Oscar,--1930-1979--Criticism and interpretation.
Paz, Octavio,--1914-1998--Criticism and interpretation.
Duchamp, Marcel,--1887-1968--Criticism and interpretation.
Duchamp, Marcel,--1887-1968.
Masotta, Oscar,--1930-1979.
Paz, Octavio,--1914-1998.
Art, Latin American--20th century.
Art critics--Argentina--20th century.
Group work in art--Mexico--History--20th century.
Industrial design--Chile--History--20th century.
Art critics.
Art, Latin American.
Group work in art.
Industrial design.
Argentina.
Chile.
Mexico.
1900-1999
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- Oscar Masotta: materialism and dematerialization -- To reconcile art and the people: Paz on Duchamp -- Los Grupos: collectivism and commodity form -- Cybersyn: style, management, and the object of design -- Conclusion.

Summary:

"Dematerialization studies experimental works and critical discourses that questioned the organicity, social autonomy, and techniques of modern art and industrial design in Argentina, Mexico, and Chile in the 1960s and 70s. More than merely describing the appearance of the object, the book proposes dematerialization as a concept that allows us to see how their work mobilized the materiality of art and design as a way of figuring the movement by which the social reflects upon its historical conditions and by which the aesthetic qualities and contingent sociocultural content of art and design objects function as the inextricable 'stuff' of this thought"--Provided by publisher.

Series:

Studies on Latin American art ; 2

ISBN:

0520307062
9780520307063

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1107058847

LCCN:

2019020044

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)