Innovators and Iconoclasts: Six Books on Latin American Modern and Contemporary Art

This essay reviews the following works:   Abstraction in Reverse: The Reconfigured Spectator in Mid-Twentieth-Century Latin American Art. By Alexander Alberro. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. 368. $50.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9780226393957.   Twentieth-Century Art of Latin America. Revise...

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Main Author: Harper Montgomery
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Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press 2019-12-01
Series:Latin American Research Review
Online Access:https://larrlasa.org/articles/675
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description This essay reviews the following works:   Abstraction in Reverse: The Reconfigured Spectator in Mid-Twentieth-Century Latin American Art. By Alexander Alberro. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. 368. $50.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9780226393957.   Twentieth-Century Art of Latin America. Revised and expanded edition. By Jacqueline Barnitz and Patrick Frank. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015. Pp. 435. $55.00 paperback. ISBN: 9781477308042.   Manifestos and Polemics in Latin American Modern Art. Edited and translated by Patrick Frank. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2017. Pp. 320. $29.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780826357885.   Painting in a State of Exception: New Figuration in Argentina, 1960–1965. By Patrick Frank. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2018. Pp. 256. $40.00 paperback. ISBN: 9780813062495.   Constructing an Avant-Garde: Art in Brazil, 1949–1979. By Sérgio B. Martins. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2013. Pp. 248. $43.95 hardcover. ISBN: 9780262019262.   The New Iconoclasts: From Art of a New Reality to Conceptual Art in Colombia, 1961–1975. By Gina McDaniel Tarver. Bogotá: Facultad de Artes y Humanidades, Universidad de los Andes, 2016. Pp. 342. $130.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9789587742909.
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spelling doaj.art-1c42614c4f09431ba33c0e03b9ea20572022-12-22T04:33:27ZengCambridge University PressLatin American Research Review1542-42782019-12-0154410.25222/larr.675231Innovators and Iconoclasts: Six Books on Latin American Modern and Contemporary ArtHarper Montgomery0Hunter CollegeThis essay reviews the following works:   Abstraction in Reverse: The Reconfigured Spectator in Mid-Twentieth-Century Latin American Art. By Alexander Alberro. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017. Pp. 368. $50.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9780226393957.   Twentieth-Century Art of Latin America. Revised and expanded edition. By Jacqueline Barnitz and Patrick Frank. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015. Pp. 435. $55.00 paperback. ISBN: 9781477308042.   Manifestos and Polemics in Latin American Modern Art. Edited and translated by Patrick Frank. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2017. Pp. 320. $29.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780826357885.   Painting in a State of Exception: New Figuration in Argentina, 1960–1965. By Patrick Frank. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2018. Pp. 256. $40.00 paperback. ISBN: 9780813062495.   Constructing an Avant-Garde: Art in Brazil, 1949–1979. By Sérgio B. Martins. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2013. Pp. 248. $43.95 hardcover. ISBN: 9780262019262.   The New Iconoclasts: From Art of a New Reality to Conceptual Art in Colombia, 1961–1975. By Gina McDaniel Tarver. Bogotá: Facultad de Artes y Humanidades, Universidad de los Andes, 2016. Pp. 342. $130.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9789587742909.https://larrlasa.org/articles/675
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