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"Modern and Contemporary Masterworks from Malba - Fundación Costantini highlights affinities among modern and contemporary Latin American artworks from MALBA (Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires). The book includes an in-depth interview by Mari Carmen Ramírez with Eduardo Costantini, an internationally renowned art collector and the founder of MALBA"--
The present museum guide of one of the most important collections of modern and contemporary Latin American art is also a major referential text on the region's art history during the different movements of the 20th century. "The present guide contains a selection of the most important works of the collection of Malba, a large part exposed in the permanent room of Latin American art of the 20th century. The publication is chronologically organized and divided in conceptual and stylistic nucleus following historical periods for a better understanding of the processes of art in the region from 1900 to the decade of the 1990's."--P. 11.
A new edition of the most in-depth guide available to Argentina that takes you beyond the tango traps to the must-dos and hidden gems, from urban luxury to awesome natural landscapes.
La extraordinaria vitalidad del arte del siglo XX en Amrica Latina y el inters cada vez mayor que despierta en el pblico ha quedado de manifiesto en numerosas exposiciones y publicaciones recientes.
Published by the University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach in association with Getty Publications The renowned Argentine conceptual artist David Lamelas (born 1946) has an expansive oeuvre of sensory, restive, and evocative work. This book, published to coincide with the first monographic exhibition of the artist’s work in the United States, offers an incisive look into Lamelas’s art. The guiding analytic theme is the artist’s adaptability to place and circumstance, which invariably influences his creative production. Lamelas left Argentina in the mid-1960s to study at Saint Martin’s in London. Since then, he has divided his time among various cities. While the typical narrative invoked about artists like Lamelas is one of “internationalism,” his nomadic movement from one place or conceptual framework to the next has always been more “postnational” than “international.”
The most European of South American cities, Buenos Aires evokes exile and nostalgia. A nineteenth-century replica of Paris or Madrid set adrift in an alien continent, its identity is neither of the Old World nor the New. The citys rootlessness has famously found expression in the melancholy of tango and, more recently, in a vogue for psycho-analysis even more widespread than New Yorks.
From its independence in 1810 until the economic crisis of 2001, Argentina has been seen, in the national and international collective imaginary, as a modern country with a powerful economic system, a massive European immigrant population, an especially strong middle class, and an almost nonexistent indigenous culture. In some ways, the early history of Argentina strongly resembles that of the United States, with its march to the prairies and frontier ideology, the image of the cowboy as a national symbol (equivalent to the Argentine gaucho), the importance of the immigrant population, and the advanced and liberal ideas of the founding fathers. But did Argentine history truly follow a linear...