New Geographies of Abstract Art in Postwar Latin America

Introduction [Mariola V. Alvarez and Ana M. Franco] Part I: Gestural Abstractions 1. "Informalism Between Surrealism and Concrete Art. Aldo Pellegrini and the Promotion of Modern Art in Buenos Aires during the 1950s" [Maria Amalia Garcia] 2."Calligraphic Abstraction and Postwar Brazilian Informalist Painting" [Mariola V. Alvarez] 3. "The Painting Devoured: El Techo de la Ballena and the Destruction of Venezuelan Informalism" [Sean Nesselrode Moncada] Part II: New Visions of Geometric Abstraction 4/ "The Fotoforma Exhibition at MASP, 1951: Geraldo de Barros and the Museum-School" [Heloisa Espada] 5. "Negotiating Afro-Brazilian Abstraction: Rubem Valentim in Rio, Rome, and Dakar, 1957-1966" [Abigail Lapin Dardashti] 6. "Fighting for the Abstract: Manuel de la Cruz Gonzalez and Geometric Abstraction in Costa Rica" [Lauran Bonilla-Merchav] 7. "Beyond Abstraction: The Work of Vicente Rojo, Kazuya Sakai, and Manuel Felguerez during the 1970s" [Daniel Garza Usabiaga] Part III: Nuestra America: Abstraction between Latin America and the United States 8. "Andean Abstraction as Displayed at the Organization of American States" [Michele Greet] 9. "The Politics of Abstraction in Colombian Art during the Cold War" [Ana M. Franco] 10. "Public 'Lifescapes': Gonzalo Fonseca's Designs for Life and Play (1964-1969)" [Maria Laura Steverlynck] Part IV: Abstraction and the Avant-garde 11. "From Sacrilegious Black to Chromatic System: The Argentinean Monochrome" [Daniel R. Quiles] 12. "Antagonistic Environments: Gendered Spaces and the Kinetic Installations of Colombian Artists Feliza Bursztyn, Jacqueline Nova, and Julia Acuna" [Gina McDaniel Tarver] 13. "Vontade Construtiva: Latin America's Geometric Abstract Identity" [Camila Maroja]