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Decentered. Other accounts of Conceptualism (Argentina and Latin America)

Class given by Ana Longoni with the participation of Simón Marchán-Fiz and Marcelo Expósito

This class will look at some of the Avant-Garde practices and ideas that took place in Argentina and other Latin American countries in the concussed 60s and 70s. These practices shared in the radical questioning of art's autonomous statute in their commitment to the dissolution of instituted borders and in their search for entrance into society.

To avoid establishing comparative dimensions with the "new artistic behaviors" of Europe and North America, the class proposes rethinking and discussing certain unavoidable theoretical arguments dealing with the aesthetics and historiography of 20th century Art, showing its limits when it comes time to confront these specific productions. Some of them have been in a recovery process for the last decade as a part of International Conceptualism; an assimilation that can be problematic as it runs the risk of measuring contexts and specific historical processes by homogeneous standards.

		
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Class given by Ana Longoni with the participation of Simón Marchán-Fiz and Marcelo Expósito

This class will look at some of the Avant-Garde practices and ideas that took place in Argentina and other Latin American countries in the concussed 60s and 70s. These practices shared in the radical questioning of art’s autonomous statute in their commitment to the dissolution of instituted borders and in their search for entrance into society.

To avoid establishing comparative dimensions with the “new artistic behaviors” of Europe and North America, the class proposes rethinking and discussing certain unavoidable theoretical arguments dealing with the aesthetics and historiography of 20th century Art, showing its limits when it comes time to confront these specific productions. Some of them have been in a recovery process for the last decade as a part of International Conceptualism; an assimilation that can be problematic as it runs the risk of measuring contexts and specific historical processes by homogeneous standards.