Inverted utopias : avant-garde art in Latin America /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ramírez, Mari Carmen, 1955-
Corporate Author: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Other Authors: Olea, Héctor
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Haven : [Houston, Tex.] : Yale University Press ; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, [2004]
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Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • THE CHANGING CONSTELLATIONS
  • A highly topical Utopia: some outstanding features of the Avant-Garde in Latin America / Mari Carmen Ramírez
  • UNIVERSAL AND VERNACULAR
  • Anthropophagic Utopia: barbarian metaphysics / Benedito Nunes
  • Xul's innermost experience: the verbivocovisual presentiment / Héctor Olea
  • Inversions: the school of the south / Mari Carmen Ramíez
  • PLAY AND GRIEF
  • Of terrorism in the arts / Ángel Rama
  • Posh art and post-historic art: Argentina (1957-1965) / Marcelo Pacheco
  • The anti-aesthetics of an art of chaos / Héctor Olea
  • Furniture as frame / Marta Traba
  • PROGRESSION AND RUPTURE
  • Vital structures: the constructive nexus in South America / Mari Carmen Ramírez
  • The ruptura Group and Concrete art / Ana Maria Belluzzo
  • VIBRATIONAL AND STATIONARY
  • The vertical screen / Olivier Debroise
  • Neither here nor there / Ariel Jiménez
  • Gego and the analytic context of Cinetismo / Luis Pérez Oramas
  • TOUCH AND GAZE
  • Julio Le Parc, promoter of technological art / Saúl Yurkiévich
  • The hand and the glove / Paulo Herkenhoff
  • To return earth unot the earth: a paradox of containment / Guy Brett
  • CRYPTIC AND COMMITTED
  • On the subject of Waldemar Cordeiro's popcretos / Max Bense
  • The critical painting of José Balmes / Justo Pastor Mellado
  • León Ferrari: from the drawing of texts to the texture of poetry / Méctor Olea
  • Tactics for thriving on adversity: conceptualism in Latin America, 1960-80 / Mari Carmen Ramírez
  • DOCUMENTS
  • Versions, inversions, subversions: the artist as theoretician / Héctor Olea.