1st Edition
The Art of Joaquín Torres-García Constructive Universalism and the Inversion of Abstraction
By Aarnoud Rommens
Copyright 2017
200 Pages
44 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
200 Pages
44 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
200 Pages
44 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Intertwining art history, aesthetic theory, and Latin American studies, Aarnoud Rommens challenges contemporary Eurocentric revisions of the history of abstraction through this study of the Uruguayan artist Joaquín Torres-García. After studying and painting (for decades) in Europe, Torres-García returned in 1934 to his native home, Montevideo, with the dream of reawakening and revitalizing what... Read more
1. Introduction: The Routes to Roots of Joaquín Torres-García’s South American Abstraction
2. Constructive Universalism’s ‘Theoretical Eye’: Vitalism, Arkhétectonics and Grafismo
3. Tactics of A-Semiosis
4. Writing/Drawing the Universal by Hand: Abstraction’s Unruliness
5. Emblematics, "The School of the South" and the Inversion of Maps
6. Thick Grids and the Scrapbooking of the Universal
Conclusion: Reverting South
Biography
Aarnoud Rommens is BeIPD-COFUND/Marie Curie Post-Doctoral Fellow at Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres, University of Liège, Belgium.
