Aarnoud Rommens

The Art of Joaquín Torres-García (eBook, PDF)

Constructive Universalism and the Inversion of Abstraction

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Intertwining art history, aesthetic theory, and Latin American studies, Aarnoud Rommens challenges contemporary Eurocentric revisions of the history of abstraction through this study of the Uruguayan artist Joaquín Torres-García.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315527567
• Artikelnr.: 45683034

Autorenporträt

Aarnoud Rommens is BeIPD-COFUND/Marie Curie Post-Doctoral Fellow at Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres, University of Liège, Belgium.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: The Routes to Roots of Joaquín Torres-García's South
American Abstraction
2. Constructive Universalism's 'Theoretical Eye': Vitalism, Arkhétectonics
and Grafismo
3. Tactics of A-Semiosis
4. Writing/Drawing the Universal by Hand: Abstraction's Unruliness
5. Emblematics, "The School of the South" and the Inversion of Maps
6. Thick Grids and the Scrapbooking of the Universal
Conclusion: Reverting South