{"product_id":"the-mobility-of-modernism-harper-montgomery-9781477312544","title":"The Mobility of Modernism: Art and Criticism in 1920s Latin America","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eArvey Foundation Book Award, Association for Latin American Art, 2018\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMany Latin American artists and critics in the 1920s drew on the values of modernism to question the cultural authority of Europe. Modernism gave them a tool for coping with the mobility of their circumstances, as well as the inspiration for works that questioned the very concepts of the artist and the artwork and opened the realm of art to untrained and self-taught artists, artisans, and women. Writing about the modernist works in newspapers and magazines, critics provided a new vocabulary with which to interpret and assign value to the expanding sets of abstracted forms produced by these artists, whose lives were shaped by mobility.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Mobility of Modernism\u003c\/i\u003e examines modernist artworks and criticism that circulated among a network of cities, including Buenos Aires, Mexico City, Havana, and Lima. Harper Montgomery maps the dialogues and relationships among critics who published in avant-gardist magazines such as \u003ci\u003eAmauta\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRevista de Avance\u003c\/i\u003e and artists such as Carlos M駻ida, Xul Solar, and Emilio Pettoruti, among others, who championed esoteric forms of abstraction. She makes a convincing case that, for these artists and critics, modernism became an anticolonial stance which raised issues that are still vital today--the tensions between the local and the global, the ability of artists to speak for blighted or unincorporated people, and, above all, how advanced art and its champions can enact a politics of opposition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Harper Montgomery\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1477312544\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781477312544\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Texas Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/04\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 344\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.14lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/01\/2018","brand":"Harper Montgomery","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43985709727999,"sku":"9781477312544","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7e28f4fc-449a-421a-b2dc-1f0d0e41a626.jpg?v=1683279107","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-mobility-of-modernism-harper-montgomery-9781477312544","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}