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Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext An authoritative, firsthand account of conceptualism in Latin American art of the 1960s and 1970s by an artist who was at the forefront of the movement. Zusammenfassung Presents an account of conceptualism in Latin American art. Placing the evolution of conceptualism within the history Latin America, this work explores conceptualism as a strategy, rather than a style, in Latin American culture. It shows how the roots of conceptualism reach back to the early nineteenth century in the work of Simon Rodriguez. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Salpicón (Medley) and Compota (Sweetmeats): A Second Introduction2. Agitation or Construction?3. The Terms: "Indefinitions" and Differences4. Conceptual Art and Conceptualism in Latin America5. Simón Rodríguez6. The Tupamaros7. Tucumán arde: Politics in Art8. The Aftermath of Tucumán arde9. Figuration, Abstraction, and Meanings10. The Intellectual Context11. The Input of Pedagogy12. The Importance of Literature13. Poetry and Literature14. The Markers of Latin American Conceptualism15. Postpoetry16. Postfiguration17. Postpolitics18. The Destruction and Survival of Locality19. From Politics to Identity20. Diaspora21. The Historical Unfitting22. From Politics into Spectacle and Beyond23. Beyond ArtNotesBibliographyIndex
