Kinesthesia : Latin American kinetic art, 1954-1969 / Dan Cameron ; with essays by Jesus Fuenmayor, Maria Jose Herrera, Frederico Morais, Hector Olea, Cristina Rossi, Isabel Plante.
Includes bibliographical references and index. Published in conjunction with an exhibition held at the Palm Springs Art Museum, August 26, 2017-January 15, 2018 as part of Pacific Standard Time LA/LA.
Contents:
Foreword / Elizabeth Armstrong -- Acknowledgments / Dan Cameron -- Plates / Martha Boto -- Electric Shadows / Dan Cameron -- Plates / Carlos Cruz-Diez -- Invention and Movement / Cristina Rossi -- Plates / Jesus Rafael Soto -- Argentina's "Tandem Scene" of Kinetic Art / Maria Jose Herrera -- Plates / Horacio Garcia-Rossi -- Plates / Julio Le Parc -- A Universal Vocation : Paris as a Cultural Arena for South American Geometric Abstraction from the Postwar Period to the 1960s / Isabel Plante -- Plates / Gregorio Vardanega -- Abraham Palatnik : A Pioneer of Technological Art / Frederico Morais -- Plates / Abraham Palatnik -- Kosice Defines the Undefinable : The Poetics of The Hydrospatial City / Hector Olea -- Plate / Gyula Kosice -- Kinetic Utopias : On the Road to the Magic Zone / Jesus Fuenmayor -- Plates / Alejandro Otero.
Summary:
Kinesthesia: Latin American Kinetic Art, 1954-1969 examines the influential and visually stunning work of South American kinetic artists. While Southern California was becoming the North American epicenter for Light and Space art in the 1960s, separate yet closely related technical experiments had been unfolding in a handful of major cities of South America, as well as in Paris, the European center for kinetic art. 'Kinesthesia' highlights the broad differences that emerged among the two principal South American centers of activity: Argentina, where kinetic art grew out of local debates about painting; and Venezuela, where pioneering notions of modern architecture stimulated a synthesis of art and design. Featured in this volume are kinetic sculptures and installations by Jesus Rafael Soto, Julio Le Parc, Carlos Cruz-Diez, Martha Boto, and others, as well as essays that explore the history of this movement, examine the artists' reception by European and American audiences in the context of the Cold War, and link their achievements to 21st-century artists and their work. Exhibition: Palm Springs Art Museum, USA (26.08.2017 - 15.01.2018).
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