Joaquín Torres-García
Subtitle: the Arcadian modern
By: Luis Pérez-Oramas ; Alexander Alberro, Sergio Chejfec, Estrella de Diego, Geaninne Gutiérrez-Guimarães
Contributors: Torres-García, Joaquín, 1874-1949; Alberro, Alexander, writer of added commentary; Chejfec, Sergio, writer of added commentary; Diego, Estrella de, writer of added commentary; Gutiérrez-Guimarães, Geaninne, writer of added commentary; Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.); Espacio Fundación Telefónica (Madrid, Spain); Museo Picasso Málaga
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780870709753
Subjects: Exhibitions; Uruguayan Drawing; Uruguayan Painting
Other titles: Arcadian modern
Description: The work of Joaquín Torres-García opened up transformative possibilities for modernist art on both sides of the Atlantic. A Uruguyan who lived in South America, North America, and Europe, Torres-García anticipated the cultural breadth of today's art world not only in his life but in his equal concerns with the avant-garde and the primitive, the schematic and the utopian. Published alongside the first major American retrospective of Torres-García work since the 1970s, this book richly illustrates his paintings, drawings, sculptures, and manuscripts offering a full overview of his long and wide-ranging career.
Notes: Published in conjunction with the exhibition Joaquín Torres-García : the Arcadian modern, at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 25, 2015-February 15, 2016, organized by Luis Pérez-Oramas, the Museum's Estrellita Brodsky Curator of Latin American Art, and traveling to the Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, May 19-September 11, 2016, and the Museo Picasso, Málaga, October 10, 2016-January 29, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-221).
Table of contents: title: The anonymous rule: Joaquín Torres-García, The schematic impulse, and arcadian modernity / Luis Pérez-Oramas; title: Spirit of America: Joaquín Torres-García in New York, 1920-1922 / Geaninne Gutiérrez-Guimarães; title: Return to the native land: The invention of an origin / Estrella de Diego; title: To find, to create, to reveal: Torres-García and the models of invention in mid-1940s Rio de la Plata / Alexander Alberro; title: Torres-García's other workshop / Sergio Chejfec; title: Chronology / Karen Elizabeth Grimson; title: Catalogue of the exhibition.