Memories of Underdevelopment, set within the context of Latin America from the 1960s to the 1980s, explores how Latin American artists responded to the unraveling of the utopian promise of modernization.
By the 1960s political oppression and brutal military dictatorships had disabused many of their political and artistic hopes. Artists sought out new ways to connect to the public, with conceptual and performance strategies emerging as productive alternatives to older styles, particularly geometric abstraction. This is the first significant survey of these crucial decades, This is the first significant survey of these crucial decades, highlighting the work of well-known artists such as Lina Bo Bardi, Hélio Oiticica, and Lygia Pape as well as lesser-known artists from Colombia, Peru, Chile, and Uruguay.
Language
Spanish
Publisher
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
Release
May 07, 2022
ISBN
0934418039
Memories of Underdevelopment: Art and the Decolonial Turn in Latin America, 1960-1985
Memories of Underdevelopment, set within the context of Latin America from the 1960s to the 1980s, explores how Latin American artists responded to the unraveling of the utopian promise of modernization.
By the 1960s political oppression and brutal military dictatorships had disabused many of their political and artistic hopes. Artists sought out new ways to connect to the public, with conceptual and performance strategies emerging as productive alternatives to older styles, particularly geometric abstraction. This is the first significant survey of these crucial decades, This is the first significant survey of these crucial decades, highlighting the work of well-known artists such as Lina Bo Bardi, Hélio Oiticica, and Lygia Pape as well as lesser-known artists from Colombia, Peru, Chile, and Uruguay.