Deconstruction in Argentine Art: Nov 14

"Destruction in Argentine Art from the 1960s and 1970s"
Wednesday, November 14, 6 pm
Free Admission. Reservation required.
culture@americas-society.org or (212) 277 8359.

Alexander Alberro and Ana Longoni will discuss the concept of destruction in 1960s and 1970s Argentine experimental Art.

Alberro's paper entitled "Invention, Destruction, and the Legacy of Concrete Art in 1960s Argentina" will focus on the impact, the legacy that Concrete art had on the Argentinean art scene of the 1960s. Alexander Alberro received a Bachelor's Degree in1986, a Master's Degree in Art History in 1990 from the University of British Columbia, and a Ph.D. in 1996 from Northwestern University. He is co-editor of Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology (MIT Press, 2000).

Longoni's presentation will discuss the crucial scenes of the Argentine avant-garde in the 1960s and 1970s. Ana Longoni received a B.A. in Literature, and a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Philosophy and Literature at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. She collaborated in the publication Listen, Here, Now! Argentine Art of the 1960s: Writings of the Avant-Garde (MoMA, NY 2004).

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