Beyond National Identity : Pictorial Indigenism as a Modernist Strategy in Andean Art, 1920-1960 Paperback / softback

by Michele (George Mason University) Greet

Part of the Refiguring Modernism series

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Description

Indigenism is not folk art. It is a vanguard movement conceived of by intellectuals and artists conversant in international modernist idioms and defined in response to global trends.

Beyond National Identity traces changes in Andean artistsâ€™ vision of indigenous peoples as well as shifts in the critical discourse surrounding their work between 1920 and 1960.

By challenging the notion of pictorial indigenism as a direct expression of national identity, Greet demonstrates the complexity of the indigenistsâ€™ critical engagement with European and pan-American cultural developments and presents the trend in its global context.

Through case studies of works by three internationally renowned Ecuadoran artists, Camilo Egas, Eduardo Kingman RiofrÃo, and Oswaldo GuayasamÃn Calero, Beyond National Identity pushes the idea of modernism in new directionsâ€”both geographically and conceptuallyâ€”to challenge the definitions and boundaries of modern art.