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The first collection of writings in English by the acclaimed Uruguayan artist and curator whose work, after years of marginalization, has achieved international recognition, including exhibition in the Whitney Biennial and Documenta 11.

Table of Contents
  • Foreword by Rachel Weiss
  • Part I: On and Against Translation
    • Introduction
    • 1. Contemporary Colonial Art (1969)
    • 2. The Sixties (1998)
    • 3. Exile (1983)
    • 4. Political Pop (1998)
    • 5. Access to the Mainstream (1987)
    • 6. Wonder Bread and Spanglish Art (1989)
    • 7. Cultural Identities Before and After the Exit of Bureau-Communism (1991)
    • 8. Art and Politics: The Aesthetics of Resistance (1994)
    • 9. The Artist's Role and Image in Latin America (2004)
    • 10. Out of Geography and Into the Moiré Pattern (1996)
    • 11. The Reconstruction of Salami (2003)
    • 12. Printmaking: A Colony of the Arts (1999)
    • 13. My Museums (1995)
    • 14. The Forgotten Individual (1996)
    • 15. Free-trade Diaspora (2003)
  • Part II: Other Histories
    • Introduction
    • 16. Pedro Figari (1991)
    • 17. Resoftenings and Softenings in Uruguayan Art (1991)
    • 18. An Ode to Aquatint (2003)
    • 19. Revisiting Tautology (2006)
    • 20. The Museo Latinoamericano and MICLA (1992)
    • 21. Flying in Weightlessness (2004)
    • 22. Brazil in New York (2001)
    • 23. The Keeper of the Lens (2005)
    • 24. The Two Versions of Santa Anna's Leg and the Ethics of Public Art (1995)
    • 25. The Biennial of Utopias (1999)
    • 26. Introduction to the Symposium "Art as Education/Education as Art" (2007)
  • Index

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      Publisher: University of Texas Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/10/2009
      ISBN13: 9780292760905, 978-0292760905
      ISBN10: 0292760906

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The first collection of writings in English by the acclaimed Uruguayan artist and curator whose work, after years of marginalization, has achieved international recognition, including exhibition in the Whitney Biennial and Documenta 11.

      Table of Contents
      • Foreword by Rachel Weiss
      • Part I: On and Against Translation
        • Introduction
        • 1. Contemporary Colonial Art (1969)
        • 2. The Sixties (1998)
        • 3. Exile (1983)
        • 4. Political Pop (1998)
        • 5. Access to the Mainstream (1987)
        • 6. Wonder Bread and Spanglish Art (1989)
        • 7. Cultural Identities Before and After the Exit of Bureau-Communism (1991)
        • 8. Art and Politics: The Aesthetics of Resistance (1994)
        • 9. The Artist's Role and Image in Latin America (2004)
        • 10. Out of Geography and Into the Moiré Pattern (1996)
        • 11. The Reconstruction of Salami (2003)
        • 12. Printmaking: A Colony of the Arts (1999)
        • 13. My Museums (1995)
        • 14. The Forgotten Individual (1996)
        • 15. Free-trade Diaspora (2003)
      • Part II: Other Histories
        • Introduction
        • 16. Pedro Figari (1991)
        • 17. Resoftenings and Softenings in Uruguayan Art (1991)
        • 18. An Ode to Aquatint (2003)
        • 19. Revisiting Tautology (2006)
        • 20. The Museo Latinoamericano and MICLA (1992)
        • 21. Flying in Weightlessness (2004)
        • 22. Brazil in New York (2001)
        • 23. The Keeper of the Lens (2005)
        • 24. The Two Versions of Santa Anna's Leg and the Ethics of Public Art (1995)
        • 25. The Biennial of Utopias (1999)
        • 26. Introduction to the Symposium "Art as Education/Education as Art" (2007)
      • Index

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