Art And Revolution In Latin America 1910-1990 - Couverture rigide

Craven, David

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0300082118 ISBN 13 : 9780300082111

Editeur : Yale University Press, 2002

Synopsis

In this uniquely wide-ranging book, David Craven investigates the extraordinary impact of three Latin American revolutions on the visual arts and on cultural policy. The three great upheavals - in Mexico (1910-40), in Cuba (1959-89), and in Nicaragua (1979-90) - were defining moments in twentieth century life in the Americas. Craven discusses the structural logic of each movement's artistic project - by whom, how, and for whom artworks were produced - and assesses their legacies. In each case, he demonstrates how the consequences of the revolution reverberated in the arts and cultures far beyond national borders. The book not only examines specific artworks originating from each revolution's attempt to deal with the challenge of "socializing the arts," but also the engagement of the working classes in Mexico, Cuba, and Nicaragua with a tradition of the fine arts made newly accessible through social transformation. Craven considers how each revolution dealt with the pressing problem of creating a "dialogical art" - one that reconfigures the existing artistic resource rather than one that just reproduces a populist art to keep things as they were. In addition, the author charts the impact on the revolutionary processes of theories of art and education, articulated by such thinkers as John Dewey and Paulo Freire. The book provides a fascinating new view of the Latin American revolutionaries - from artists to political leaders - who defined art as a fundamental force for the transformation of society and who bequeathed new ways of thinking about the relations among art, ideology, and class, within a revolutionary process.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

David Craven is professor of art history at the University of New Mexico, where he is a member of the Interdisciplinary Board at the Latin American and Iberian Institute. He has written six books - including The New Concept of Art and Popular Culture in Nicaragua (1989), Diego Rivera as Epic Modernist (1997), and Abstract Expressionism as Cultural Critique (1999) - along with catalog essays for the Tate Gallery (1992), the Studio Museum in Harlem (1998), and the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia (1999). His articles and review essays, which number almost one hundred, have been published in many of the leading journals of Latin America, Europe, Canada, and the United States. In addition to being a visiting fellow at Princeton University, a guest lecturer at Trinity College, Dublin, and a fellow of the Collegium Budapest in Hungary, he has also been a visiting professor at the University of Leeds, at Universität Bremen, and at the Instituto de Investigaciones Estéticas of UNAM, the Nacional Autonomous University of Mexico. He is currently on the International Advisory Board of Third Text (London) and ArteFacto (Managua).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Yale University Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0300082118
• ISBN 13: 9780300082111
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible