Magnet: New York - Argentine Art from the '60s

Magnet: New York. Argentine Art from the ‘60s brings ti life the intense artistical and institucional dialogue that took place between our country and the Big Apple Turing the turbulent and cretive years of that decade.

The fall of Paris as the hegemonic center for artistic creativity and the rise of New York as the new art mecca are depicted in Harols Rosenberg’s and Serge Guilbaut´s outstanding historical texts, wich are sharp reflections on the political and artistic happenings of the second half of the 20th Century. Andrea Giunta´s essay enrices our perspective by focussing on the action taking place in Latin America, particularly the political and social conditions that gave way to this artistic interchange. Curator Rodrigo Alonso depicts the richness of the decade, focusing on the importantant aesthetic efforts of those years, starting with painting and passing through technology, video, serial production, and other geometric, conceptual and optical proposals.

A section containing photography, works, manifestos, writings and historical texts presents never before published material, making this publication a unique document Essentials for understanding the important social and historical aspects and different art movements of those years.

Interviews with the majors figures from this tome, conducted specially or thios book, offer a critical perspective on the period, in with projects, hopes, successes and failures were shared.

Magnet: New York is a fundamental publication for understanding the feverish creativity of these artists, the intense interchange of the continente, and the dialogue betwwn the past and present through Easterly texts anda n unprecedent body of Works, essays and documents.