The sites of Latin American abstraction =
Subtitle: Los sitios de la abstracción latinoamericana
By: Juan Ledezma.
Contributors: Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection.; Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation.
Edition: 2nd rev. ed.
Publisher: Charta; CIFO
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Milano; New York; Miami
Language: eng; spa
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9788881586646
Subjects: Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection -- Exhibitions; Art, Abstract -- Latin America -- Exhibitions; Geometry in art -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions.
Other titles: Sitios de la abstracción latinoamericana; Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection
Description: "The history of Latin American abstraction has not yet been completely written, but what has been written owes much to the Miami-based Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation. This substantial new publication includes 146 abstract geometric artworks from the 1930s-1970s--drawings, paintings, sculptures and photography from such cultural centers as Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Uruguay and Venezuela. It also elaborates on a new perspective: that Latin American identity greatly affected the art of the Modernist period. Art historian and curator Juan Ledezma creates unexpected connections and visual analogies across generational and national boundaries, offering, for example, socio-political corollaries between Latin American Concrete art and concurrent movements like Russian Constructivism and Suprematism."--Amazon

La historia de la abstracción latinoamericana aún no ha sido completamente escrito, pero lo que se ha escrito debe mucho a la Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation con sede en Miami. Esta nueva publicación sustancial incluye 146 obras de arte abstracto geométrico de los 1930s-1970 - dibujos, pinturas, esculturas y fotografía de los centros culturales tales como Argentina, Brasil, México, Uruguay y Venezuela. También elabora sobre una nueva perspectiva: que la identidad latinoamericana afectada en gran medida el arte de la época modernista. El historiador de arte y comisario Juan Ledezma crea conexiones inesperadas y analogías visuales a través de fronteras generacionales y nacionales, ofreciendo, por ejemplo, corolarios socio-políticas entre el arte concreto de América Latina y los movimientos simultáneos como el constructivismo ruso y el suprematismo.
Notes: This catalog was originally published in conjunction wit the exhibition "The sites of Latin American Abstraction held at CIFO, the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, Dec. 6, 2006-Feb. 18, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references.

Parallel text in English and Spanish.