Francisco Matto : the modern & the mythic /
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| Imprint: | Austin, Tex. : Blanton Museum of Art, 2009. |
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| Description: | 120 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7839510 |
| Summary: | Establishing congruences between Modernist abstraction and the Pre-Columbian traditions of the ancient Americas, Uruguayan artist Francisco Matto (1911-1995) was a pioneer of Latin American art, and one of the most significant students of El Taller Torres-Garc a, the workshop school established by Joaqu n Torres-Garc a. Matto remained in his native Montevideo, Uruguay for all of his life, and was financially secure enough to not need to sell or promote his work; consequently, it rarely circulates in international exhibitions, instead remaining in the estate of the artist and a few private collections in Montevideo, New York, Houston and Belgium. The Modern and the Mythic is the first comprehensive U.S. publication on Matto, and presents more than five decades of artistic production, from the artist's early work under Torres-Garc a to his late works of the 1990s. |
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| Item Description: | "Published by the Blanton Museum of Art, the University of Texas at Austin, on the occasion of the exhibition Francisco Matto: The Modern and the Mythic, June 21 to September 27, 2009"--T.p. verso. |
| Physical Description: | 120 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780981573830 0981573835 |
