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Francisco Matto: The Modern and The Mythic

Robert Morgan author Cesar Paternosto author Gabriel P�rez-Barreiro editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Blantom Museum of Art

Published:12th Nov '09

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The first comprehensive U.S. publication on a pioneer of Latin American art Establishing congruences between Modernist abstraction and the Pre-Columbian traditions of the ancient Americas, Uruguayan artist Francisco Matto (1911-1995) was a pioneer of Latin American art, and one of the most significant students of El Taller Torres-Garc�a, the workshop school established by Joaqu�n Torres-Garc�a. Matto remained in his native Montevideo, Uruguay for all of his life, and was financially secure enough to not need to sell or promote his work; consequently, it rarely circulates in international exhibitions, instead remaining in the estate of the artist and a few private collections in Montevideo, New York, Houston and Belgium. The Modern and the Mythic is the first comprehensive U.S. publication on Matto, and presents more than five decades of artistic production, from the artist's early work under Torres-Garc�a to his late works of the 1990s.

ISBN: 9780981573830

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120 pages