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INVENTORY OF THE JOAQUIN TORRES-GARCIA PAPERS, circa 1904-1994
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Title: Joaquín Torres-García papers
Date (inclusive): circa 1904-1994
Collection Number: 960087
Creator:
Torres-García, Joaquín, 1874-1949
Extent:
circa 5 linear feet
(9 boxes)
Repository:
Getty Research Institute
Research Library
Special Collections and Visual Resources
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, California 90049-1688
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 Papers comprise published and unpublished manuscripts (including those by and about Torres-Garcia),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: Collection material in Spanish
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Joaquin Torres-Garcia papers, ca. 1904-1994, Research Library, The Getty Research Insititute, Accession no. 960087.
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.
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The papers document Torres-García's artistic development and career through unpublished manuscripts and sketches, publications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.
Arrangement
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
Torres-García, Joaquín, 1874-1949
Constructivism (Art)
Mural painting and decoration
Mural painting and decoration—20th century
Art, American
Art—Uruguay
Art—France
Art—Spain
Sketches
Clippings
Manifestoes
Arzadun, Carmelo de, 1888-1968
Doesburg, Theo van, 1883-1931
Duchamp, Marcel, 1887-1968
Miró, Joan, 1893-
Mondrian, Piet, 1872-1944
Ozenfant, Amédée, 1886-1966
Salvat-Papasseit, Joan, 1894-1924
Torres-García, Joaquín, 1874-1949
Asociación de Arte Constuctivo
Cine Club del Uruguay
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Taller Torres-García
Amigos del Arte (Association : Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Historia de mi vida Metafisica de la prehistorica indoamericana Mi opinion sobre la exposition de artistas Norteamericanos: [contibution al problema del arte Norteamericanos]