Abstract Crossings: Cultural Exchange between Argentina and Brazil

Toward the middle of the 1950s, abstract art became a dominant trend in the Latin American cultural scene. Many artists incorporated elements of abstraction into their rigorous artistic vocabularies, while at the same time, the representation of geometric lines and structures filtered into everyday life, appearing in textiles, posters, murals, and landscapes. The translation of a field—changing Spanish—language book, Abstract Crossings analyzes the relationship between, on the one hand, the...