Overview

Conceptualism played a different role in Latin American art during the 1960s and 1970s than in Europe and the United States, where conceptualist artists predominantly sought to challenge the primacy of the art object and art institutions, as well as the commercialization of art. Latin American artists turned to conceptualism as a vehicle for radically questioning the very nature of art itself, as well as art's role in responding to societal needs and crises in conjunction with politics, poetry, and pedagogy. Because of this distinctive agenda, Latin American conceptualism must be viewed and understood in its own right, not as a derivative of Euroamerican models. In this book, one of Latin America's foremost conceptualist artists, Luis Camnitzer, offers a firsthand account of conceptualism in Latin American art. Placing the evolution of conceptualism within the history Latin America, he explores conceptualism as a strategy, rather than a style, in Latin American culture. He shows how the roots of conceptualism reach back to the early nineteenth century in the work of Simon Rodriguez, Simon Bolivar's tutor. Camnitzer then follows conceptualism to the point where art crossed into politics, as with the Argentinian group Tucuman arde in 1968, and where politics crossed into art, as with the Tupamaro movement in Uruguay during the 1960s and early 1970s. Camnitzer concludes by investigating how, after 1970, conceptualist manifestations returned to the fold of more conventional art and describes some of the consequences that followed when art evolved from being a political tool to become what is known as ""political art.""

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Author:   Luis Camnitzer
Publisher:   University of Texas Press
Imprint:   University of Texas Press
Dimensions:   Width: 20.30cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   1.334kg
ISBN:  

9780292716292

ISBN 10:   029271629
Pages:   364
Publication Date:   01 June 2007
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Salpicon (Medley) and Compota (Sweetmeats): A Second Introduction 2. Agitation or Construction? 3. The Terms: Indefinitions and Differences 4. Conceptual Art and Conceptualism in Latin America 5. Simon Rodriguez 6. The Tupamaros 7. Tucuman arde: Politics in Art 8. The Aftermath of Tucuman arde 9. Figuration, Abstraction, and Meanings 10. The Intellectual Context 11. The Input of Pedagogy 12. The Importance of Literature 13. Poetry and Literature 14. The Markers of Latin American Conceptualism 15. Postpoetry 16. Postfiguration 17. Postpolitics 18. The Destruction and Survival of Locality 19. From Politics to Identity 20. Diaspora 21. The Historical Unfitting 22. From Politics into Spectacle and Beyond 23. Beyond Art Notes Bibliography Index

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Luis Camnitzer, an award-winning artist, essayist, and critic, is Professor Emeritus of Art at SUNY Old Westbury. He served as Viewing Program Curator at the Drawing Center in New York City from 1999 to 2006. His work is in the permanent collections of major museums in the United States, Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East.

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