Latin American Art of the Twentieth Century / Edition 2

by Edward Lucie-Smith

Overview

"Richly illustrated...brings to life the work of many lesser-known artists throughout the continent." Choice This comprehensive survey introduces an exceptionally rich, fascinating, and complex art that has gained great popularity in recent years. Edward Lucie-Smith discusses all the major subjects and issues: magic realism, expressionism, and other concepts shared with Latin American literature; the great muralists Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Jose Clemente Orozco; the interaction of politics, society, and art; the continuing interest in folk art; and the dialogue between avant-garde European and North American movements and "indigenist" thinking in the work of artists such as Wifredo Lam, Matta, Rufino Tamayo, and Frida Kahlo. Many other artists from the 1900s to the present day are included in this compelling look at a great body of brilliantly original and imaginative art. For the second edition, the text has been updated and a new final section introduces some of Latin America's leading contemporary artists: Jose Bedia (Cuba/USA), Doris Salcedo (Colombia), Ruben Ortiz Torres (Mexico), Miguel Calderan (Mexico), Ernesto Neto (Brazil), Diana Domingues (Brazil), and Beatriz Milhazes (Brazil). Several of these artists make use of the latest in modern technology, including interactive installations, photographs, and video art. 178 illustrations, 45 in color.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780500203569
Publisher:	Thames & Hudson
Publication date:	10/17/2004
Series:	World of Art
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	226
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.30(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Edward Lucie-Smith is well-known as a poet, novelist, biographer, broadcaster, and critic, and he is the author of numerous books, among them The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Art Terms, Furniture: A Concise History, Movements in Art Since 1945, Symbolist Art, and Sexuality in Western Art (all in the World of Art series).

Table of Contents

	Introduction	7
Chapter 1	Forerunners and Independents	21
Chapter 2	The First Modern Movements	37
Chapter 3	Mexican Muralism	49
Chapter 4	Muralism Beyond Mexico	69
Chapter 5	The Exiles	79
Chapter 6	Mexico: Four Women and One Man	96
Chapter 7	A Climate of Change	110
Chapter 8	Geometric Abstraction	121
Chapter 9	Informal Abstraction	144
Chapter 10	Expressionist Tendencies	152
Chapter 11	Realism, Pop Art and Surrealism	165
Chapter 12	The Present Day	187
	Select Bibliography	216
	List of Illustrations	218
	Index	222