Latin American Abstraction
Upending Joaqu n Torres-Garc a's Inverted Map
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5161902 |
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| Authors | Aarnoud Rommens (0000-0003-2464-6095, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 51 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 35-58 |
| Publication date | 2018-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mosaic (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0027-1276 • E-ISSN: 1925-5683 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/mos.2018.0016 |
| OpenAlex | W4379616132 |
| Language | EN |
This essay nuances the legibility of Joaquín Torres-García's Inverted Map of South America as the supposed symbol of Latin America's cultural independence. Rather than a transparent "illustration," I argue that the Inverted Map traces an ambiguous routing of mestizaje constantly disavowed in the artist's discourse while animating his visual praxis
Abstraction · Art · Closeness · Epistemology · Garcia · Humanities · Independence (probability theory) · Latin Americans · Legibility · Linguistics · Symbol (formal) · Visual arts · Latin American history and culture · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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