Inverted Utopias: Avant-Garde Art in Latin America / Mari Carmen Ramirez, curator ; Hector OLea, curator ; Bense M ; Brett G ; Adorno T ; Agam Y ; Bann S ; Beckett S ; Blake W ; Borges J ; Cage J ; Camintzer L ; DeCampos A ; DeCampos H ; Clark L ; Dias A ; VanDoesburg T ; Duchamp M ; Ferrari L ; Fontana L ; Friedeberg P ; Goeritz M ; Grunewald JL ; Huidobro V ; Joyce J ; Kandinsky V ; Klee P ; Lissitzky E ; Malevich K ; Mallarme S ; Manzoni P ; McLuhan M ; Oiticica H ; Paz O ; Reverdy P ; Schendel M ; Tatlin V ; Torres-Garcia J ; Vigo EA ; Weiner L ; Wittgenstein L ; Solar X., 2004
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Scope and Contents
Curated by Mari Carmen Ramirez and Hector Olea who organized this first large-scale overview of the avant-garde in Latin America during the twentieth century. Many Latin American works predated artistic works from Europe and the United States and challenged traditional notions of art and science. the catalogue and exhibition are organized into six conceptual areas or "constellations": Universal and Vernacular: Play and Grief; Progression and Rupture; Vibrational and Stationary; Touch and Gaze; Cryptic and Committed. Leon Ferrari contributed an illustrated essay "The Written Word." Hector Olea's illustrated essay on Leon Ferrari is titled "From the Drawing to Texts to the Texture of Poetry." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.
Dates
- Creation: 2004
Creator
- Ramírez, Mari Carmen, 1955- (Person)
- Olea, Héctor (Person)
- Bense, Max, 1910-1990 (Person)
- Cage, John (Person)
- Bann, Stephen, 1942- (Person)
Extent
0 See container summary (1 hard cover book (586 pages) in dust jacket) : illustrations (mostly color) ; 30 x 24.9 x 4.5 cm
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Physical Location
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Custodial History
The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, on loan from Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.
General
Published: New Haven, Connecticut; Houston, Texas : Yale University Press; Museum of Fine Arts. Nationality of creator: Mexican. General: Added by: RUTH; updated by: MARVIN.
Genre / Form
Repository Details
Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository
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