Description
Pop America, 1965-1975 accompanies the first traveling exhibition to stage Pop art as a hemispheric phenomenon. The richly illustrated catalogue reveals the skill with which Latin American and Latino/a artists adapted familiar languages of mass media, fashion, and advertising to create experimental art in a startling range of mediums. In a new era in hemispheric relations, artists enacted powerful debates over what "America" was and what Pop art could do, offering a radical new view onto the postwar "American way of life" and Pop's presumed political neutrality.
Nine essays grounded in original archival research narrate transnational accounts of how these artists remade America. The authors connect the decisive design of the Chicano/a movement in the United States with the vivid images of the Cuban Revolution and new contributions to the Mexican printmaking tradition. They follow iconic Pop images and tactics as they traveled between New York and Sao Paulo, Bogota and Mexico City, San Francisco and La Habana. Pop art emerges in a fully American profile, picturing youthful celebration and painful violence, urban development and rural practices, and pronouncements of freedom made equally by democratic and repressive regimes.
The bilingual catalogue reconstitutes a network of artists from the decade, including ASCO, Judith Baca, Eduardo Costa, Antonio Dias, Marcos Dimas, Felipe Ehrenberg, Rupert Garcia, Nicolas Garcia Uriburu, Rubens Gerchman, Edgardo Gimenez, Alberto Gironella, Jose Gomez Fresquet (Fremez), Beatriz Gonzalez, Gronk, Juan Jose Gurrola, Emilio Hernandez Saavedra, Robert Indiana, Nelson Leirner, Anna Maria Maiolino, Marisol, Raul Martinez, Cildo Meireles, Marta Minujin, Helio Oiticica, Dalila Puzzovio, Hugo Rivera Scott, Jorge de la Vega, and Lance Wyman, among others.
Pop America, 1965-1975 will be on display at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas, from October 4, 2018 to January 13, 2019; at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University from February 21 to July 21, 2019; and at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art from September 21 to December 8, 2019.
Publication of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
About the Author
Esther Gabara is E. Blake Byrne Associate Professor of Romance Studies and Associate Professor in the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University. Faculty guest curator of Pop America, 1965-1975, she is the author of Errant Modernism: The Ethos of Photography in Mexico and Brazil, also published by Duke University Press.
Reviews
"An academic book that doubles as a coffee table tome! A guide to accompany a traveling exhibit of Latin American pop art, this book comes with plenty of colorful images, as well as essays that trace the art movement's origins across Latin America." -- Alejandra Oliva * Remezcla *
"The contributors to [Pop America] provide sharp analysis and thought-provoking insight into the artistic practices of those included in the exhibition. . . . The catalog, along with other recent publications on Latin American contemporary art, contribute to a more inclusive discourse about art history, and should be considered a valuable resource to any library supporting research in the fields of art history, art, and design." -- Melanie Emerson * ARLIS/NA Reviews *
"Focusing on one particularly eventful decade, the exhibition Pop America 1965-75 and the exhibition catalog essays explore multivalent implementation of the sprawling phenomenon of Pop during this period. A consummately contemporary art movement, Pop used visual vocabularies, techniques, and technologies drawn from advertising and publicity, and served as a repudiation of the abstraction(s) that had dominated the international art world in previous decades." -- Alison Fraunhar * The Americas *
Book Information
ISBN 9780938989424
Author Esther Gabara
Format Hardback
Page Count 216
Imprint Duke University Museum of Art,U.S.
Publisher Duke University Museum of Art,U.S.
Weight(grams) 1542g
Nine essays grounded in original archival research narrate transnational accounts of how these artists remade America. The authors connect the decisive design of the Chicano/a movement in the United States with the vivid images of the Cuban Revolution and new contributions to the Mexican printmaking tradition. They follow iconic Pop images and tactics as they traveled between New York and Sao Paulo, Bogota and Mexico City, San Francisco and La Habana. Pop art emerges in a fully American profile, picturing youthful celebration and painful violence, urban development and rural practices, and pronouncements of freedom made equally by democratic and repressive regimes.
The bilingual catalogue reconstitutes a network of artists from the decade, including ASCO, Judith Baca, Eduardo Costa, Antonio Dias, Marcos Dimas, Felipe Ehrenberg, Rupert Garcia, Nicolas Garcia Uriburu, Rubens Gerchman, Edgardo Gimenez, Alberto Gironella, Jose Gomez Fresquet (Fremez), Beatriz Gonzalez, Gronk, Juan Jose Gurrola, Emilio Hernandez Saavedra, Robert Indiana, Nelson Leirner, Anna Maria Maiolino, Marisol, Raul Martinez, Cildo Meireles, Marta Minujin, Helio Oiticica, Dalila Puzzovio, Hugo Rivera Scott, Jorge de la Vega, and Lance Wyman, among others.
Pop America, 1965-1975 will be on display at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, Texas, from October 4, 2018 to January 13, 2019; at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University from February 21 to July 21, 2019; and at the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art from September 21 to December 8, 2019.
Publication of the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University
About the Author
Esther Gabara is E. Blake Byrne Associate Professor of Romance Studies and Associate Professor in the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University. Faculty guest curator of Pop America, 1965-1975, she is the author of Errant Modernism: The Ethos of Photography in Mexico and Brazil, also published by Duke University Press.
Reviews
"An academic book that doubles as a coffee table tome! A guide to accompany a traveling exhibit of Latin American pop art, this book comes with plenty of colorful images, as well as essays that trace the art movement's origins across Latin America." -- Alejandra Oliva * Remezcla *
"The contributors to [Pop America] provide sharp analysis and thought-provoking insight into the artistic practices of those included in the exhibition. . . . The catalog, along with other recent publications on Latin American contemporary art, contribute to a more inclusive discourse about art history, and should be considered a valuable resource to any library supporting research in the fields of art history, art, and design." -- Melanie Emerson * ARLIS/NA Reviews *
"Focusing on one particularly eventful decade, the exhibition Pop America 1965-75 and the exhibition catalog essays explore multivalent implementation of the sprawling phenomenon of Pop during this period. A consummately contemporary art movement, Pop used visual vocabularies, techniques, and technologies drawn from advertising and publicity, and served as a repudiation of the abstraction(s) that had dominated the international art world in previous decades." -- Alison Fraunhar * The Americas *
Book Information
ISBN 9780938989424
Author Esther Gabara
Format Hardback
Page Count 216
Imprint Duke University Museum of Art,U.S.
Publisher Duke University Museum of Art,U.S.
Weight(grams) 1542g
