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The Peripatetic School: Itinerant Drawing from Latin America

The Peripatetic School: Itinerant Drawing from Latin America
Library Shelf Location 15c.LQBA
Publication Date 2011
Description The Peripatetic School: Itinerant Drawing from Latin America looks at the work of nine artists who have adopted forms of travel or nomadism to explore contemporary life in America. Selected by curator Tanya Barson, the artists include Brígida Baltar, Tony Cruz, Raimond Chaves and Gilda Mantilla, André Komatsu, Mateo López, Jorge Macchi, Nicolás Paris and Ishmael Randall Weeks, whose shared interests lead them to engage with urban and rural landscapes through the medium of drawing. In their own way, each artist borrows from the models and conventions of geographical, botanical, topographical, political, philosophical or Surrealist investigation, allowing their work to destabilize assumptions about the continent. Texts by Tanya Barson, Isobel Whitelegg, Pablo León de la Barra and Moacir dos Anjos, together look at the history of itinerancy in art, the legacy of Latin American artists and theorists and the notion of a Peripatetic School.
ISBN 9781905464463
Quantity 1
Pages 112
Author Tanya Barson
Format Paperback
Publisher Ridinghouse, London
Related Artists Brigida Baltar, Raimond Chaves, Jorge Macchi, Tony Cruz, Gilda Mantilla, André Komatsu, Mateo López, Nicolás Paris, Ishmael Randall Weeks
Categories Drawing, Art from a specific Geographical/Political Region
Keywords Landscapes (representations), Travel, Urban Landscape
Related Country/Global Region Latin America
Artist's Nationality Latin American
Language English

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