Lo que es revelación
Subtitle: selección de textos críticos y curatoriales
By: Germaine Derbecq ; con introducción de Florencia Qualina y cierre de Federico Baeza
Contributors: Qualina, Florencia, 1977- writer of foreword; Baeza, Federico, writer of supplementary textual content
Edition: Primera edición.
Series: Serie maravillosa energía universal; Serie maravillosa energía universal
Publisher: Ivan Rosado
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Rosario, Argentina
Language: spa
Number of pages: 117
ISBN-13: 9789873708787
Subjects: Art criticism; History; Modern Art
Work titles: Prose works
Description: A selection of critical texts by Germaine Derbecq (Paris 1899 - Buenos Aires 1973). Derbecq arrived in Buenos Aires in the early 1950's to become a key figure in an artistic field immersed in a furious modernization process. From her place as critic, or known today as curator, she promoted a renewal of the local aesthetic standards. In 1922 she married the Argentine sculptor Pablo Curatella Manes with whom she had a son. In 1951 they settled permanently in Buenos Aires and two years later she began her work as an art critic in the newspaper Le Quotidien, a profession that she would keep for almost twenty years. Between 1960 and 1963 she was curator and director of the Lirolay Gallery,she later collaborated with the Guernica Gallery. She was a jury of prestigious awards, including the Premio Braque organized by the French Embassy in Argentina. In 1970, together with Silvia de Ambrosini, Odile Barón Supervielle and Lidy Prati, they founded the magazine Artinf. The book comprises 24 texts by Derbecq. In her critical articles, originally published in "Le quotidien" and "Artinf"," she defends abstract art and argues with its detractors; proposes the construction of a museum of modern art in Buenos Aires in 1953, which she imagines as "the city of art of South America"; explores the difference between "trade" and "technical" in the development of artistic work; and explains the historical relevance of informal art, among other topics. The volume also includes curatorial texts written for exhibitions.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introducción. Ascesis. Algunas notas sobre Germaine Derbecq / Florencia Qualina; title: Arte abstracto "Esa abominación", 1953; title: Buenos Aires podría ser la ciudad del arte de América del Sur, 1953; title: Ser célebre, 1953; title: Usted también puede ser coleccionista, 1953; title: Artes y bellas artes, 1954; title: Consideraciones sobre una exposición de arte moderno religioso, 1954; title: ¿Puede ser el arte para el pueblo?, 1955; title: Norah Borges en la Galeria Bonino, 1955; title: Butler en Bonino, 1956; title: Tomás Maldonado, profesor en la Escuela Superior de la Forma de Ulm, 1956; title: ...Academismo, disidente y arte abstracto, 1957; title: Exposición de miembros del jurado de la nueva asociación "Estímulo de Bellas Artes", 1957; title: Thibon de Libian y sus amigos. 1960; title: Arte nuevo en el Museo Sivori, 1960; title: Alrededor del arte informal, 1960; title: 14 pintores de la nueva generación, 1960; title: Alberto Greco, el mago de Buenos Aires, 1960; title: Una experiencia plástica exitosa conduce necesariamente al cuadro, 1960; title: Blaszko o la constancia, 1961; title: De la Vega o la realidad del espejismo, 1961; title: Egocentrísmo pictórico de Haloua, 1961; title: Los argentinos en el arte de sistemas, 1971; title: Conferencia en el Lenguas Vivas, s/f (sobre la vida y obra de Pablo Curatella Manes); title: Iconografia de 40.000 años de desnudo para leer, s/f; title: Cierre. Frenéticamente decidida a ir hacia adelante / Federico Baeza.