Studies on Latin American Art #04: Immanent Vitalities

Meaning and Materiality in Modern and Contemporary Art

Studies on Latin American Art #04: Immanent Vitalities
Kaira M Cabanas
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6 Apr 2021 US
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9780520356221
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A new reality for the art object has emerged in the world of contemporary art: it is now experienced less as an autonomous, inanimate form and more as an active material agent. In this book, Kaira M. Cabanas describes how such a shift in conceptions of art' s materiality came to occur, exploring key artistic practices in Venezuela, Brazil, and Western Europe from the mid-twentieth century to the present. Immanent Vitalities expands the discourse of new materialisms by charting how artists, ranging from Gego to Laura Lima, distance themselves from dualisms such as mind-matter, culture-nature, human-nonhuman, and even Western-non-Western in order to impact our understanding of what is animate. Tracing migrations of people, objects, and ideas between South America and Europe, Cabanas historicizes changing perceptions about art' s agency while prompting readers to remain attentive to the ethical dimensions of materiality and of social difference and lived experience.

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Immanent Vitalities: Meaning and Materiality in Modern and Contemporary Art

Kaira M. Cabanas is Professor of Global Modern and Contemporary Art History at the University of Florida, Gainesville. She is the author of The Myth of Nouveau Realisme: Art and the Performative in Postwar France;Off-Screen Cinema: Isidore Isou and the Lettrist Avant-Garde; and Learning from Madness: Brazilian Modernism and Global Contemporary Art.
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ISBN-13: 9780520356221
Published: 6 Apr 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: University of California Press
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Hardback
Height: 229mm
Width: 178mm
Pages: 240

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