{"product_id":"the-art-of-joaqun-torres-garca-aarnoud-rommens-9781032179445","title":"The Art of Joaquín Torres-García: Constructive Universalism and the Inversion of Abstraction","description":"\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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Aarnoud Rommens\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1032179449\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781032179445\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/30\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.73lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.43d","brand":"Aarnoud Rommens","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44075488641279,"sku":"9781032179445","price":48.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_5e5342c3-7bf0-442a-a103-7c396b980d0c.jpg?v=1685459722","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-art-of-joaqun-torres-garca-aarnoud-rommens-9781032179445","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}