Making the Americas Modern: Hemispheric Art 1910-1960
This book presents an audacious account of the ways in which the arts in the Americas were modernized during the first half of the 20th century. Rather than viewing modernization as a steady progression from one "ism" to another, Edward Sullivan adopts a comparative approach, drawing his examples from North America, the Caribbean, Central, and South America.

By considering the Americas in this hemispheric sense he is able to tease out many stories of art and focus on the ways in which artists from different regions not only adapted and experimented with visual expression, but also absorbed trans-national as well as international influences. He shows how this rich diversity is most evident in the various forms of abstract art that emerged throughout the Americas and which in turn had an impact on art throughout the world.
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Making the Americas Modern: Hemispheric Art 1910-1960
This book presents an audacious account of the ways in which the arts in the Americas were modernized during the first half of the 20th century. Rather than viewing modernization as a steady progression from one "ism" to another, Edward Sullivan adopts a comparative approach, drawing his examples from North America, the Caribbean, Central, and South America.

By considering the Americas in this hemispheric sense he is able to tease out many stories of art and focus on the ways in which artists from different regions not only adapted and experimented with visual expression, but also absorbed trans-national as well as international influences. He shows how this rich diversity is most evident in the various forms of abstract art that emerged throughout the Americas and which in turn had an impact on art throughout the world.
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Making the Americas Modern: Hemispheric Art 1910-1960

Making the Americas Modern: Hemispheric Art 1910-1960

by Edward J. Sullivan
Making the Americas Modern: Hemispheric Art 1910-1960

Making the Americas Modern: Hemispheric Art 1910-1960

by Edward J. Sullivan

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This book presents an audacious account of the ways in which the arts in the Americas were modernized during the first half of the 20th century. Rather than viewing modernization as a steady progression from one "ism" to another, Edward Sullivan adopts a comparative approach, drawing his examples from North America, the Caribbean, Central, and South America.

By considering the Americas in this hemispheric sense he is able to tease out many stories of art and focus on the ways in which artists from different regions not only adapted and experimented with visual expression, but also absorbed trans-national as well as international influences. He shows how this rich diversity is most evident in the various forms of abstract art that emerged throughout the Americas and which in turn had an impact on art throughout the world.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781786271556
Publisher: Laurence King Publishing
Publication date: 03/27/2018
Series: Global Perspectives Art History Series
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 6.60(w) x 9.50(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Edward J Sullivan is the Helen Gould Sheppard Professor of Art History at New York University. He has written numerous books on 19th- and 20th-century art of the Americas and the Iberian Peninsula.

Table of Contents

Prologue: Fragmentary Histories of Hemispheric Art, 1910-1960 7

Exhibiting Modern Art, 1910-1960 9

Time Frames 11

Divisions of the Story 13

End of the Story 16

Chapter 1 The Expanding Mind: Symbolist Imagery in the Americas 19

American Decadence and Redemption, c.1910-1930 20

North American Visionaries 34

Cannibals in the Southern Cone: Alejandro Xul Solar and Tarsila do Amaral 41

Chapter 2 A Sense of Place: Landscapes, Cityscapes, and Topographies of the Self 49

The Year 1916 50

Landscapes of the Mind 61

Southwest Reveries 64

Canadian Wilderness 69

Mexican Volcanoes 73

Cityscapes 74

South of the U.S. Border 84

Chapter 3 Visualizing Blackness in the Americas 89

Blackness in the Modernist Imagination 90

Blackness, Dance, Music, and Ritual 96

Black Faces, Black Bodies 103

Labor and Struggle 110

Black Abstractions 118

Chapter 4 Cross-Border Dialogues 125

Revolutionary Art: Between Exaltation and Despair 126

Public Arts on Both Sides of the Border 137

Muralism, Teaching, and Learning 143

Chapter 5 Labor, Anxiety, and a New Social Order 153

Anxiety 156

Lynchings 159

Clouds of War 165

Eye Witness 169

Labor and Exile 174

Exile and Migrations 183

Chapter 6 The Liberated Line: Toward Abstracted Form 187

Alternative Histories 192

Abstracted Nature 200

Surrealism into Abstraction 207

Site-Specific Abstraction 214

Chapter 7 The Cube, Sphere, and Cone: Constructed Abstractions in the Americas 223

American Responses to Geometric Form, c.1910-1920 225

Joaquin Torres-Garcia, the Torres-García Workshop, and Arithmetical Proportion 229

Geometric Manhattan 234

Río de la Plata: Beyond Torres-Experimentation in the 1940s 237

Brazil Builds 244

Havana-Paris-New York-Montreal 250

Chapter 8 Modern Visionaries and the Intuitive Imagination 265

Trans-American Surrealism 268

The 1940s and 50s in Latin America: Surrealist Affinities 270

From Mexico to Manhattan and Beyond 285

Dance, Visual Art, and Visionary Modernity 289

Popular Arts, the Intuitive Eye, and Modernity 292

Epilogue Into the Future 301

Pop Art and Revolution 301

Art for All 307

Environments and Total Participation 310

Art and Terror 312

Endnotes 316

Further Reading 327

Index 329

Picture Credits 335

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