The Art of Joaquín Torres-García

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 Joaquín Torres-García.

Autorentext

Aarnoud Rommens is BeIPD-COFUND/Marie Curie Post-Doctoral Fellow at Faculté de Philosophie et Lettres, University of Liège, Belgium.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: The Routes to Roots of Joaquín Torres-García's South American Abstraction

2. Constructive Universalism's 'Theoretical Eye': Vitalism, Arkhétectonics and Grafismo

3. Tactics of A-Semiosis

4. Writing/Drawing the Universal by Hand: Abstraction's Unruliness

5. Emblematics, "The School of the South" and the Inversion of Maps

6. Thick Grids and the Scrapbooking of the Universal

Conclusion: Reverting South