Modern masters from Latin America : the Pérez Simón collection /

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Imprint:[San Diego, California] : The San Diego Museum of Art, [2017]
Madrid, Spain : Ediciones El Viso, [2017]
©2017
Description:205 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 31 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11451144
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Other authors / contributors:Velásquez Martínez del Campo, Roxana, editor, contributor.
Guerrero, Rocío, contributor.
Mosquera, Gerardo, contributor.
San Diego Museum of Art, issuing body, publisher, host institution.
Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA (Project)
ISBN:9780937108574
093710857X
9788494746666
8494746669
Notes:Published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name held at The San Diego Museum of Art, October 21, 2017-March 11, 2018.
"[P]art of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, a far-reaching and ambitious exploration of Latin American and Latino art in dialogue with Los Angeles, taking place from September 2017 through January 2018 ..."--Colophon.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-205).
"Modern Masters from Latin America: the Pérez Simón Collection" : October 21, 2017-March 11, 2018, The San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California, United States.
Text in English.
Summary:This catalogue will accompany the exhibition that will take place at the San Diego Museum of the Arts, celebrating the multifaceted history of Latin American modernism with an exhibition given by one of the most important private collections in the world. "Modern Masters from Latin America: The Pérez Simón Collection" traces the trajectory from the late 1800s to the first decade of our century, expressing the work of seminal figures from countries such as Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Peru, Brazil and Uruguay. Among the artists participating in this exhibition are Fernando Botero, Alfredo Castañeda, Pedro Figari, Gunther Gerzso, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Frida Kahlo, Wifredo Lam, Roberto Matta, Alfredo Ramos Martinez, Diego Rivera, Kazuya Sakai, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Jesús Rafael Soto, Lino Eneas Spilimbergo, Rufino Tamayo and Joaquín Torres-García.
Table of Contents:
  • Director's foreword
  • Collector's foreword
  • Identity of a Thousand Faces / Roxana Veláquez Martínez del Campo
  • Art from Latin American / Gerardo Mosquera
  • Artistic Latin Americanisms: Latin American Geo-Aesthetic Spaces of Enunciation / Rocío G. Guerrero Mondoño
  • I. Landscape
  • National Identity
  • New Worlds / Rocío G. Guerrero Mondoño
  • II. The Avant-Garde Explosion
  • The Latin American Diaspora
  • Urban Iconography / Rocío G. Guerrero Mondoño
  • III. Breaking Boundaries: Post-1960s Diversity & Dystopia
  • Ruptures
  • Transgressions / Rocío G. Guerrero Mondoño
  • Artist Biographies / Rocío G. Guerrero Mondoño
  • Bibliography
  • Exhibition credits
  • Photography credits.