Francisco Matto: The Modern and the Mythic

Francisco Matto: The Modern and the MythicEstablishing 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

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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Blanton Museum of Art
Published: 09/30/2009
ISBN: 9780981573830
Pages: 120
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.20h x 6.90w x 0.40d