The Object of the Atlantic: Concrete Aesthetics in Cuba, Brazil, and Spain, 1868–1968 (Volume 19) (FlashPoints) - Softcover

Price, Rachel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810130130 ISBN 13: 9780810130135

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 2014

Synopsis

The Object of the Atlantic is a wide-ranging study of the transition from a concern with sovereignty to a concern with things in Iberian Atlantic literature and art produced between 1868 and 1968. Rachel Price uncovers the surprising ways that concrete aesthetics from Cuba, Brazil, and Spain drew not only on global forms of constructivism but also on a history of empire, slavery, and media technologies from the Atlantic world. Analyzing Jose Marti’s notebooks, Joaquim de Sousandrade’s poetry, Ramiro de Maeztu’s essays on things and on slavery, 1920s Cuban literature on economic restructuring, Ferreira Gullar’s theory of the “non-object,” and neoconcrete art, Price shows that the turn to objects—and from these to new media networks—was rooted in the very philosophies of history that helped form the Atlantic world itself.

About this title

About the Author:

Rachel Price is an assistant professor of Spanish and Portuguese languages and cultures at Princeton University.

About this edition

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0810130130
• ISBN 13: 9780810130135
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 280
• Editor: Dimendberg Edward