{"product_id":"the-art-of-joaquin-torres-garcia-constructive-universalism-and-the-inversion-of-abstraction-9781472471437","title":"The Art of Joaquín Torres-García: Constructive Universalism and the Inversion of Abstraction","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Aarnoud Rommens\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Routledge\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Movements - Modernism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntertwining 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. After studying and painting (for decades) in Europe, Torres-García returned in 1934 to his native home, Montevideo, with the dream of reawakening and revitalizing what he considered the true indigenous essence of Latin American art: \"Abstract Spirit.\" Rommens rigorously analyses the paradoxes of the painter's aesthetic-philosophical doctrine of Constructive Universalism as it sought to adapt European geometric abstraction to the Americas. Whereas previous scholarship has dismissed Torres-García's theories as self-contradictory, Rommens seeks to recover their creative potential as well as their role in tracing the transatlantic routes of the avant-garde. Through the highly original method of reading Torres-García's artworks as a critique on the artist's own writings, Rommens reveals how Torres-García appropriates the colonial language of primitivism to construct the artificial image of \"pure\" pre-Columbian abstraction. Torres-García thereby inverts the history of art: this book teases out the important lessons of this gesture and the implications for our understanding of abstraction today.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Routledge","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46931721781399,"sku":"9781472471437","price":12867.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781472471437.webp?v=1771615659","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-art-of-joaquin-torres-garcia-constructive-universalism-and-the-inversion-of-abstraction-9781472471437","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}