The stone and the thread: Andean roots of abstract art

"Shows that precolumbian tectonic forms (especially as found in sculpture and weaving) appear to be an overlooked source, or anticipation, of much of the art of the 20th century. Second part of book deals with artifacts as American art and addresses reception of ancient tectonics in the 20th ce...

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1. Verfasser: Paternosto, César (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Spanish
Veröffentlicht: Austin Univ. of Texas Press 1996
Ausgabe:1. ed.
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Zusammenfassung:"Shows that precolumbian tectonic forms (especially as found in sculpture and weaving) appear to be an overlooked source, or anticipation, of much of the art of the 20th century. Second part of book deals with artifacts as American art and addresses reception of ancient tectonics in the 20th century. Emphasizes intense relationship that some members of the New York School (particularly Barnett Newman and Adolph Gottlieb) had during 1940s with the aboriginal arts of the North American part of the hemisphere and thus the affinities between their work and the work of the older Torres García in Montevideo, at the other end of the continent"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.. - http://www.loc.gov/hlas/
Beschreibung:XXI, 272 S. Ill., Kt.
ISBN:0292765657

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