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    Making the Americas modern : hemispheric art, 1910-1960 / Edward J. Sullivan.

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    • Title:Making the Americas modern : hemispheric art, 1910-1960 / Edward J. Sullivan.
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    • Author/Creator:Sullivan, Edward J., author.
    • Published/Created:London : Laurence King Publishing, 2018.
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    • Library of Congress Subjects:Modernism (Art)--America--20th century.
    • Description:336 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
    • Series:Global perspectives (Laurence King Publishing)
    • Summary:This book presents an audacious account of the ways in which the arts in the Americas were modernized during the first half of the twentieth century. Rather than viewing modernization as a steady progression from one ?ism? to another, Edward J. 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.
    • Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
    • ISBN:9781786271556 (hardcover)
      1786271559 (hardcover)
    • Contents:Prologue: Fragmentary histories of hemispheric art, 1910-1960 : Exhibiting modern art, 1910-1960
      Time frames
      Divisions of the story
      End of the story. 1 The expanding mind: symbolist imagery in the Americas : American decadence and redemption, c.1910-1930
      North American visionaries
      Cannibals in the southern cone: Alejandro Xul Solar and Tarsila do Amaral. 2 A sense of place: landscapes, cityscapes, and topographies of the self : The year 1916
      Landscapes of the mind
      Southwest reveries
      Canadian wilderness
      Mexican volcanoes
      Cityscapes
      South of the U.S. border. 3 Visualizing blackness in the Americas : Blackness in the modernist imagination
      Blackness, dance, music, and ritual
      black faces, black bodies
      Labor and struggle
      Black abstractions. 4 Cross-border dialogues : Revolutionary art: between exaltation and despair
      Public arts on both sides of the border
      Muralism, teaching, and learning. 5 Labor, anxiety, and a new social order : Anxiety
      Lynchings
      Clouds of war
      Eye witness
      Labor and exile
      Exile and migration. 6 The liberated line: toward abstracted form : Alternative histories
      Abstracted nature
      Surrealism into abstraction
      Site-specific abstraction. 7 The cube, sphere, and cone; constructed abstractions in the Americas : American responses to geometric form, c.1910-1920
      Joaquin Torres-García, the Torres-García workshop, and arithmetical proportion
      Geometric Manhattan
      Río de la Plata: beyond Torres - experimentation in the 1940s
      Brazil builds
      Havana - Paris - New York - Montreal. 8 Modern visionaries and the intuitive imagination : Trans-American surrealism
      The 1940s and 50s in Latin America: surrealist affinities
      From Mexico to Manhattan and beyond
      Dance, visual art, and visionary modernity
      Popular arts, the intuitive eye, and modernity. Epilogue: Into the future : Pop art and revolution
      Art for all
      Environments and total participation
      Art and terror.
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