Discuss how Torres-Garcia and Cordeiro each deployed the visual languages of Constructivism to advance their respective avant-garde projects, quoting directly from the manifestos they each wrote.
Although visual artists in Latin America engaged with the European avant-gardes throughout the twentieth century—with travels, circulating exhibitions, and reproductions in books and journals—artists in the Southern Cone were especially engaged with European Constructivism. Joaquin Torres-Garcia and Waldemar Cordeiro are two distinct visual artists, working in different cosmopolitan centers and periods, that are examples of […]