Beyond National Identity: Pictorial Indigenism as a Modernist Strategy in Andean Art, 1920-1960

by Michele Greet

Indigenism is not folk art. It is a vanguard movement conceived of by intellectuals and artists conversant in international modernist idioms and defined in response to global trends. Beyond National Identity traces changes in Andean artists' vision of indigenous peoples as well as shifts in the critical discourse surrounding their work between 1920 and 1960. By challenging the notion of pictorial indigenism as a direct expression of national...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 027103470X
• ISBN13: 9780271034706
• Release Date: November 2009
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 9.2" x 9.6"