The Art of Joaquín Torres-García: Constructive Universalism and the Inversion of Abstraction

by Aarnoud Rommens

Intertwining art history, aesthetic theory, and Latin American studies, Aarnoud Rommens challenges contemporary Eurocentric revisions of the history of abstraction through this study of the Uruguayan artist Joaqu?n Torres-Garc?a. After studying and painting (for decades) in Europe, Torres-Garc?a returned in 1934 to his native home, Montevideo, with the dream of reawakening and revitalizing what he considered the true indigenous essence of Latin...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032179449
• ISBN13: 9781032179445
• Release Date: September 2021
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.7" x 9.6"