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In 1970, Marcel Broodthaers claimed that Mallarma is the source of all contemporary art. Those words serve as a departure point for the exhibition and catalogue, Art and Utopia. Based on Marcel Broodthaers's interpretation of and Mallarma's influence on such seminal figures of modernity as Artaud and Apollinaire, this book reinterprets 20th century art, from Cubism to the historical avant-garde movements to the art of the 1970s, questioning the very idea of modernity. The information contained in this catalogue is highly varied--in addition to an essay by Jean-Francois Chevrier, the...

This in-depth look at Latin American art explores the complexity of the contemporary aesthetic and cultural milieu in this vast and diverse region of the world, focusing on a critical re-reading of the Baroque in Latin America and its curious function as an important cultural metaphor. The diversity of artists represented--hailing from South America, Mexico, the Caribbean, and the United States--serves to critique and recuperate this concept of the Baroque that has become increasingly clichéd and misunderstood. With art by Ruben Ortiz Torres, Miguel Calderon, Rochelle Costi, Arturo Duclos,...

Esta notable obra transita por los documentos autobiográficos más representativos de Hispanoamérica: revisa los Recuerdos de provincia de Domingo Faustino Sarmiento; la Autobiografía de Victoria Ocampo, y el Ulises criollo de José Vasconcelos, entre otras obras, para ofrecer al público una perspectiva renovadora de los escritos de vida, verdadera conmemoración ritual de las existencias personales, en donde las reliquias de una persona se secularizan y se representan como sucesos compartidos que se desarrollan en la fabulación del Yo.

Con su estilo ágil y ameno, con el tono audaz y libre de prejuicios que le caracterizan, Robert Hughes ha erigido en este libro un monumento a Francisco de Goya.