Title & Author:

Listen, here, now! : Argentine art of the 1960s : writings of the avant-garde / edited by Ines Katzenstein.

Publication:

New York : Museum of Modern Art, ©2004.

Description:

376 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
"Most of [these texts] are being translated into English for the first time"--Page 9.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-368) and index.
I. The first ruptures of the decade : From the modern to the contemporary: shifts in Argentine art, 1956-1965 / Marcelo E. Pacheco -- Destructive art : Destructive art / Kenneth Kemble ; Foundation for an aesthetic of destruction / Aldo Pellegrini -- Rubén Santantonín : Why I call these objects "Things" / Rubén Santantonín -- Albert Greco : Vivo-dito manifesto / Albert Greco ; Grand Vivo-dito anti-manifesto manifesto scroll (excerpts) / Alberto Greco ; Alberto Greco, five years after his death / Luis Felipe Noé -- Julio Le Parc : No more mystifications / Groupe de Recherche d'Art Visuel -- Marta Minujín : Destruction of my works in the Impasse Ronsin, Paris / Marta Minujín -- Luis Felipe Noé : Untitled text / Luis Felipe Noé ; Anti-aesthetics (excerpts) / Luis Felipe Noé -- Futura : Futura: theater script of a work / Alfredo Rodríguez Arias based on an essay by Eduardo Polledo -- II. Jorge Romero Brest / edited by Andrea Giunta : Rewriting modernism: Jorge Romero Brest and the legitimation of Argentine art / Andrea Giunta -- Jorge Romero Brest : What is informal painting?; Informal art and the art of today; Introduction to New art from Argentina / Jorge Romero Brest ; La menesunda / / Jorge Romero Brest, Marta Minujín, and Rubén Santantonín ; "Awareness of image" and "Awareness of imagination" in the process of Argentine art; Visual experiences, 1967; Report and reflection on Pop Art; Experiences 68; Letter from Buenos Aires; Art for consumption / Jorge Romero Brest ; The revolutionary Mandarin / Interview with Jorge Romero Brest ; Analysis of the situation of the Centro de Artes Visuales (ITDT) / Jorge Romero Brest -- III. Oscar Masotta and the art of media : After Pop, we dematerialize: Oscar Masotta, Happenings and media art at the beginnings of conceptualism / Ana Longoni and Mariano Mestman -- Oscar Masotta : Prologue to Pop Art; The Argentine image-makers; Prologue to Happenings; Three Argentines in New York; I committed a Happening / Oscar Masotta ; On Happenings, Happening: reflections and accounts / Eduard Costa and Oscar Masotta ; Disclaimer to Conciencia y estructura; After Pop, we dematerialize / Oscar Masotta ; Letter to Oscar Masotta / Luis Felipe Noé ; Letter to Luis Felipe Noé -- Media art : An art of communications media (manifesto) / Roberto Jacoby, Eduardo Costa, and Raúl Escari ; Creation of the first work / Roberto Jacoby and Eduardo Costa ; Against the Happening / Roberto Jacoby ; Letter to Eduardo Costa / Octavío Paz -- Artists' projects : Simultaneity in simultaneity / Marta Minujín ; Round table: This is a judgment; Realized project: communications / Margarita Paksa My approach to work in 1968; Self-awareness / David Lamelas ; David Lamelas: art as activity / Raúl Escari ; Closed information circuits; Automatic circuit (Work no.1 for telephone circuit) / Roberto Jacoby ; First hearing of works created with oral language / Eduardo Costa and Roberto Jacoby ; Enter into discontinuity: reflections and texts / Raúl Escari.
IV. Art under the paradigm of politics : Culture, intellectuals, and politics in the 1960s / Oscar Terán -- León Ferrari : Written painting; Artist's response; Prologue to The words of others; Collage; Letter to Leopoldo Maler / León Ferrari -- Experiences 68 : Message in the Di Tella / Roberto Jacoby ; Letter to resignation to Jorge Romero Brest / Pablo Suárez ; Final statement of the participants in Experience 68 -- Interruptions: Braque Prize and assault on a lecture by Romero Brest : We must always resist the lures of complicity / Juan Pablo Renzi and others ; Assault text on Romero Brest's lecture / Juan Pablo Renzi, Norberto Púzzolo, Rodolfo Elizalde, and others ; Art and politics / Horacio Verbitsky -- Experimental Art Series / Collective statement on the Experimental Art Series ; Project for the Experimental Art Series / Graciela Carnevale ; An action: project for the Experimental Art Series / Eduardo Favario ; Norberto Julio Púzzolo: project for the Experimental Art Series / Juan Pablo Renzi -- First national meeting on avant-garde art and Tucumán is burning : The work of art as product of the ethical consciousness-aesthetic consciousness relationship / Juan Pablo Renzi ; The art of meanings / León Ferrari ; Art and social commitment / Ricardo Carreira ; Tucumán is burning: statement of the exhibition in Rosario / María Teresa Gramuglio, Nicolás Rosa, and others ; Buenos Aires statement : Avant-Garde Artists of the Committee for Artistic Action -- Biographies of artists and critics -- Chronology.

Summary:

"Listen, Here, Now! is the first book to explore the intense, internationally significant developments in Argentine art of the 1960s through English translations of the original documents of the time. An anthology of invaluable primary source material on the development of performance art, media art, and political art in Argentina, it includes key essays by two of the most brilliant Argentine art critics of the period, Jorge Romero Brest and Oscar Masotta, and many texts by artists: manifestos, letters, lectures, and project notes. Well-known Latin American scholars contribute chapter introductions, setting the ideas and arguments of these documents in context for foreign audiences. A comprehensive biographical and bibliographical appendix completes the book."
"Listen, Here, Now! was edited by Ines Katzenstein and, in part, by Andrea Giunta. It includes essays by Marcelo E. Pacheco, Ana Longoni, Mariano Mestman, and Oscar Teran. The book is the second in a series of anthologies published by The Museum of Modern Art, collecting primary documents of art and art criticism from around the world."--Jacket.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

0870703668 (paperback)
9780870703669 (paperback)

Subject:

Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Argentina History 20th century.
Art, Argentine 20th century.
Art argentin 20e siècle.
20.54 American art.
Art, Argentine.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Avant-garde.
Kunstbeschouwing.
Argentina.

Form/genre:

History.

Added entries:

Katzenstein, Inés.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 238801
Call No.: BIB 168702
Status: Available