Avant-Garde, Internationalism, and Politics - 9780822338772

Avant-Garde, Internationalism, and PoliticsArgentine Art in the Sixties\nAuthor(s): Andrea Giunta, Peter Kahn\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Duke University Press, United States\nImprint: Duke University Press\nISBN-13: 9780822338772, 978-0822338772\nSynopsis\nThe 1960s were heady years in Argentina. Visual artists, curators, and critics sought to fuse art and politics; to broaden the definition of art to encompass happenings and assemblages; and, above all, to achieve international recognition for new, cutting-edge Argentine art. A bestseller in Argentina, Avant-Garde, Internationalism, and Politics is an examination of the 1960s as a brief historical moment when artists, institutions, and critics joined to promote an international identity for Argentinas visual arts. The renowned Argentine art historian and critic Andrea Giunta analyzes projects specifically designed to internationalize Argentinas art and avant-garde during the 1960s: the importation of exhibitions of contemporary i.