Preface. Painting's near-death experience -- Early modernism. The mountain reborn / Dr. Atl -- Voices and demons / Armando Reverón -- Regional autonomy / Pedro Figari -- The avant-garde of the 1920s. Modern art week: complete program, municipal theater, São Paulo, Brazil, February 1922 -- Remembering modern art week / Emiliano Di Cavalcanti -- Anthropophagite manifesto / Oswald de Andrade -- Manifesto of Martin Fierro / Oliverio Girondo -- The great serpent / Xul Solar -- Manifesto of the Grupo Minorista, Havana, May 7, 1927 -- Criollismo and its virtual interpretation / Carlos Enríquez -- Politically committed muralism and indigenism. Manifesto of the union of Mexican workers, technicians, painters, and sculptors -- The revolution in painting / Diego Rivera -- The syndicate of painters and sculptors / José Clemente Orozco -- Religion, revolution, and painting: an interview with Francisco Goitia / Anaya Sarmiento -- Art, revolution, and decadence / José Carlos Mariátegui -- In defense of indigenist painting / José Sabogal -- The new realism / Antonio Berni -- Surrealism and related modes. On painting in Peru / César Moro -- An approach to a reality that we do not understand yet: an interview with Leonora Carrington / Hans Ulrich Obrist -- Speaking of one of my paintings / Frida Kahlo -- Genesis of La jungla: an interview with Wifredo Lam / Antonio Núñez Jiménez -- Notes on photomontage / Grete Stern -- A world created by magic: excerpts from a conversation with André Pierre / Donald Cosentino -- Constructive and informalist abstraction. The new art of America / Joaquín Torres-García -- Inventionist manifesto, Salon Peuser, Buenos Aires, March 1946 -- Madí manifesto / Gyula Kosice -- Madí and concrete-invention / Gyula Kosice -- Art has to be an adventure: an interview with Fernando de Szyszlo / M. Isabel Guerra -- Developing a conscience as a painter / Alejandro Obregón, as told to Fausto Panesso -- The necessary pluralism in Latin American art / Manuel Felguérez -- Midcentury architectural projects. Le corbusier, the education ministry, and Pampulha / Oscar Niemeyer -- Landscape art and paintings: an interviews with Roberto Burle Marx / Ana Rosa de Oliveira -- Integration of the arts / Carlos Raúl Villanueva -- What is the social significance of modern architecture in Mexico? / Juan O'Gorman -- Emotional architecture / Matías Goeritz -- Geometric, optical, and kinetic art. Statements on colorhythms and sculpture / Alejandro Otero -- Chance, reality, and perception / Jesús Rafael Soto -- Reflections on color / Carlos Cruz-Diez -- GRAV manifesto: transforming the current situation in plastic art / Julio Le Parc -- Neoconcrete art in Brazil. Neo-concrete manifesto / Ferreira Gullar -- Beasts [Bichos] / Lygia Clark -- My experiences with dance / Hélio Oiticica -- Postwar figuration and versions of pop. The cactus curtain / José Luis Cuevas -- A conversation about Alberto Gironella / Moderated by Rita Eder -- The so-called "new figuration" of Argentina / Luis Felipe Noé -- Marta Minujín against the easel -- Furniture and bad taste: an interview with Beatriz González / Katherine Chacón -- Painting violence: an interview with Fernando Botero / Valeria Shapira -- Political conceptualism, 1960s-1970s. Insertion into ideological circuits / Cildo Meireles -- Seventeen questions regarding art / Horacio Zabala -- The No Manifesto of Tribu No / Cecilia Vicuña -- Statements on crosses and feminism / Lotty Rosenfeld -- Can art change the world? An art interview with Alfredo Jaar / Cristián Warnken -- The Catherwood Project / Leandro Katz -- Trends of the 1970s and early 1980s. In the city of angels, chameleons, and phantoms: Asco, a case study of Chicano art in urban tones (or, Asco was a four-member word) / Harry Gamboa Jr. -- Art and politics of the poster: an interview with Rupert García -- Getting to painting through theater: an interview with Guillermo Kuitca / Graciela Speranza -- The weight of an island: an interview with Eugenio Dittborn and Roberto Merino -- Toward a new century. The personal and the political: an interview with Felix González-Torres / Robert Storr -- Printing shadows: an interview with Graciela Sacco / Marguerite Feitlowitz -- Art, ideology, and violence: a conversation with Doris Salcedo and Rocío Londoño Botero -- Shades of the tropics: a conversation with Beatriz Milhazes and Arto Lindsay -- Auotconstrucción, or self-construction / Abraham Cruzvillegas -- Real and virtual light of relational architecture: an interview with Rafael Lozano-Hemmer / Geert Lovink.
Summary:
"Bringing together sixty-five primary documents vital to understanding the history of art in Latin America since 1900, Patrick Frank shows how modern art developed in Latin America in this important new work complementing his previous book, Twentieth-Century Art of Latin America, Revised and Expanded Edition. Besides autobiographies, manifestos, interviews, and artists' statements, the editor has assembled material from videos, blogs, handwritten notes, flyers, lectures, and even an after-dinner speech. As the title suggests, many of the texts have a polemical or argumentative cast. In these documents, many of which appear in English for the first time, the artists themselves describe what they hope to accomplish and what they see as obstacles. Designed to show how modern art developed in Latin America, the documents begin with early modern expressions in the early twentieth century, then proceed through the avant-garde of the 1920s, the architectural boom of midcentury, and the Cold War years, and finally conclude with the postmodern artists in the new century." -- Publisher's description
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