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Contributing Institution: Special Collections
Title: Joaquín Torres-García papers
Creator: Taller Torres-García
Creator: Salvat-Papasseit, Joan, 1894-1924
Creator: Ozenfant, Amédée, 1886-1966
Creator: Mondrian, Piet, 1872-1944
Creator: Torres-García, Joaquín, 1874-1949
Creator: Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968
Creator: Amigos del Arte (Association : Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Creator: Arzadun, Carmelo de, 1888-1968
Creator: Asociación de Arte Constructivo
Creator: Cine Club del Uruguay
Creator: Doesburg, Theo van, 1883-1931
Creator: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Creator: Miró, Joan, 1893-1983
Identifier/Call Number: 960087
Physical Description: 5 Linear Feet(9 boxes)
Date (inclusive): circa 1904-1994
Abstract: Uruguayan constructivist painter. Papers comprise published and unpublished manuscripts (including those by and about Torres-Garcia),
sketches, charts, pamphlets, reviews of exhibitions, gallery notices, and art journals and catalogs. The collection also includes
photocopies of Torres-Garcia's letters, manuscripts, and reviews. The development and impact of Torres-Garcia's art and ideas
is traced through publications by groups affiliated with Torres-Garcia, including the Asociacíon de Arte Constructivo and
El Taller Torres-García.
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Language of Material: Spanish; Castilian.
Scope and Content of Collection
The papers document Torres-García's artistic development and career through unpublished manuscripts and sketches, publications
by Torres-García and the groups Asociacíon de Arte Constructivo and El Taller Torres-García, and ephemera. Included are manifestoes
and pamphlets, invitations and announcements for exhibitions, clippings of exhibition reviews, books by and about Torres-García,
art periodicals and catalogs, as well as photocopies of letters, manuscripts and reviews.
The papers are organized in 5 series, each arranged chronologically.
Series I. Manuscripts, c. 1911-1943;
Series II. Correspondence and writing (photocopies), ca. 1912-1943;
Series III. Publications, ca. 1914-1959;
Series IV. Ephemera, ca. 1904-1991;
Series V. Clippings, ca. 1942-1994
Joaquín Torres-García was a Uruguayan constructivist painter influenced by Surrealism, abstract geometry, and Pre-Columbian
art. He lived and worked in Catalonia, New York City, Paris, and Montevideo.
Joaquin Torres-Garcia papers, ca. 1904-1994, Research Library, The Getty Research Insititute, Accession no. 960087.
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa960087
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Constructivism (Art)
Mural painting and decoration
Mi opinion sobre la exposition de artistas Norteamericanos: [contibution al problema del arte Norteamericanos]
Metafisica de la prehistorica indoamericana
Historia de mi vida
Clippings (information artifacts)
Manifestoes
Art -- Spain
Art -- France
Art -- Uruguay
Art, American
Sketches
Mural painting and decoration -- 20th century
Torres-García, Joaquín, 1874-1949