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This session invites proposals that address the study of modernism and avant-garde movements in Latin America. Papers may investigate the gradual incorporation of new media and technologies as practices that mediated between local and external discourses on art and modernity; and the way in which the avant-garde's experimentation with industrial
materials, for example, often responded to the artist's response to cosmopolitan modernism and his/her identification or rejection of national stereotypes. Studies may also look at the debates and the significance of abstraction as a language denoting universal and
aesthetic principles, and figuration as a way to express ideologies and explicit references to cultural authenticity. Following Oswald de Andrade's concept of Antropofagia this session will therefore present an opportunity to address the significance of visual culture in Latin America, as a means to mediate and articulate local and external discourses, acknowledging in this way its contribution to the history
of modern art.
If you would like to offer a paper, please send an abstract of your proposed paper in no more than 250 words, and your name and institutional affiliation (if any) to:
Fabiola Martinez
martinezf@madrid.slu.edu
Deadline for submission of papers: 10 November 2008
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