Art from Latin America
Subtitle: modern and contemporary
By: Laurens Dhaenens ; with contributions by Laura Malosetti Costa [and four others]
Contributors: Kern, Maria Lúcia Bastos, author; Rossi, Cristina, author; Vidal Mackinson, Sebastián, author; Everaert, John, author
Publisher: Lannoo
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9789401420136
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Katoen Natie (Firm); Art collections; Catalogs; Latin American Art
Description: "For the first time Katoen Natie, a global logistics service provider, shows its collection of unique modern and contemporary art from Latin America, the biggest collection in Europe. Renowned experts such as Laura Malosetti Costa and Christina Rossi discuss the art history of the continent and the 44 artists from the collection with toppers such as Joaquín Torres García and Diego Rivera. This lavishly illustrated catalogue is a kaleidoscope showing the artistic diversity of a fascinating continent that has been ignored for too long." -- Publisher's description
Table of contents: title: Flamencos in Latin America / John Everaert; title: Introduction / Laurens Dhaenens; title: An overall picture of 19th century painting in Latin America / Laura Malosetti Costa; title: The Latin American avant-garde: political and aesthetic projects / Maria Lucia Bastos Kern; title: Constructive universalism: Torres García and the School of the South / Cristina Rossi; title: Constructive abstraction from Latin America by Cristina Rossi; title: Art in Latin America from 1960s onwards / Sebastián Vidal Mackinson; title: Art from Latin America in the Katoen Natie Collection.