Abstract Crossings. Cultural exchange between Argentina and Brazil

MARÍA AMALIA GARCÍA

University of California Press

Año: 2019 p. 304

9780520302198

El libro es una edición traducida al inglés y ampliada y corregida de mi libro El arte abstracto. Contactos culturales entre Argentina y Brasil, Buenos Aires, Siglo XXI, 2011. Traducción: Jane Brodie. This book analyzes the relationship between, on the one hand, the emergence of abstract visions among avant-garde groups and, on the other, the institutionalization and newfound hegemony of abstract poetics as part of the regions imaginary of modernization. I focus mainly on Argentina and Brazil because of the constant and abundant artistic-institutional exchange between the two countries, and because of the shared emphasis on abstraction, which a range of sectors in both countries viewed as an active force in the project of sociocultural transformation.