Recovering Abstract Art Narratives in Latin America: Lidy Prati’s Writing
We are presenting texts published in “Artelogie” – Numéro double spécial 22 (2024): Violencia(s), frontera(s) y sentimiento(s): formas, sentidos y significados de la violencia en nuestra América. You can access all the issue here.
Author: Ayelen Pagnanelli
Abstract:
A pioneer of geometric abstraction between 1944 and 1955, Lidy Prati was one of the young artists immersed in the exploration of abstraction and the creation of formally transgressive works of art in the Río de La Plata in South America. I argue that Prati published an innovatively critical genealogy of abstract art that included indigenous and non-Western art in the magazine Lyra in 1956 that was contrary to that held by members of Argentine Concrete Art. Through a feminist reconstruction of the personal context of her writing, this article illuminates a woman’s contributions to narratives about abstract art.
