Eidetic Beauty: Classism and Modernity in Joaquín Torres García’s Platonism

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https://doi.org/10.46661/atrio.4441

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Plato, art, idea, truth, beauty, modernity

Abstract

The influence of Plato’s thought in Joaquin Torres Garcia’s writings is, nowadays, as well-known as it is little-understood. A critical approach to the artistic element of this relationship is barely identifiable within the scope of historiography. The incidence of Platonic idealism in the epochal contradictions, particularly in associating Torres with certain movements of the European avant-garde, begun to be studied in recent decades only. These three aspects will be the subject of the following article, whose purpose is to think about Torresgarcian Platonism from both a theoretical and a practical point of view and to delve into the complexity of a period of great changes in art history: the first half of the XX century.

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Published

2019-12-20

How to Cite

Rey Ashfield, William, and Natalia Costa Rugnitz. 2019. “Eidetic Beauty: Classism and Modernity in Joaquín Torres García’s Platonism”. Atrio. Revista De Historia Del Arte, no. 25 (December). Sevilla, España:240-57. https://doi.org/10.46661/atrio.4441.

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