The 1920s were a period of rapid modernization and artistic innovation across the globe; magazines played an integral role in disseminating bold new ideas and movements. The Avant-Garde Networks of Amauta: Argentina, Mexico, and Peru in the 1920s explores this history in Latin America through the magazine Amauta, published in Peru from 1926 to 1930. With an expansive network of collaborators, Amauta captured major artistic and political conversations of the decade including international discussions of the avant-garde, traditional craft as innovation, the visual identity of leftist politics, and the movement of Indigenism. The exhibition has more than 200 objects — including paintings, sculptures, poetry, ceramics, tapestries, woodcut prints, publications, and ephemera —  that richly evoke the milieu of this radical period.

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Carlos Quízpez Asín, Alegoría a los labradores [Allegory to the Workers], 1928, oil on canvas, 74 13/16 x 59 1/16 in., Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, Lima– Perú

Carlos Quízpez Asín, Alegoría a los labradores [Allegory to the Workers], 1928, oil on canvas, 74 13/16 x 59 1/16 in., Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, Lima– Perú

Gabriel Fernández Ledesma, Escultura y talla directa [Sculpture and Direct Chiseling], 1928, woodcut, 12 5/16 x 12 1/2 in., Colección Andrés Blaisten, Mexico City Courtesy Olinca Fernández Ledesma Villaseñor, Photo: courtesy of Colección Andrés Blaisten

Gabriel Fernández Ledesma, Escultura y talla directa [Sculpture and Direct Chiseling], 1928, woodcut, 12 5/16 x 12 1/2 in., Colección Andrés Blaisten, Mexico City Courtesy Olinca Fernández Ledesma Villaseñor, Photo: courtesy of Colección Andrés Blaisten

José Sabogal, Estela Bocángel Montesinos, 1932, oil on canvas, 26 x 22 1/16 in., Private Collection, Lima

José Sabogal, Estela Bocángel Montesinos, 1932, oil on canvas, 26 x 22 1/16 in., Private Collection, Lima

Rufino Tamayo, Obreros en el camino [Road Workers], 1932, gouache on paper, 26.4 cm x 20.2 cm (10 3/8 in. x 7 15/16 in.) Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of Judy S. and Charles W. Tate, 2014© 2018 Tamayo Heirs / Mexico / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

Rufino Tamayo, Obreros en el camino [Road Workers], 1932, gouache on paper, 26.4 cm x 20.2 cm (10 3/8 in. x 7 15/16 in.) Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Gift of Judy S. and Charles W. Tate, 2014© 2018 Tamayo Heirs / Mexico / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

Lola Velásquez de Cueto, Bandera mexicana [Mexican Flag] 1920s, silk tapestry made with chain stitch 42 x 150 cm (16 9/16 x 59 1/16 in.) Private Collection, Lima © Sucesión Mireya Cueto, Photo courtesy of Lance Aaron

Lola Velásquez de Cueto, Bandera mexicana [Mexican Flag] 1920s, silk tapestry made with chain stitch 42 x 150 cm (16 9/16 x 59 1/16 in.) Private Collection, Lima © Sucesión Mireya Cueto, Photo courtesy of Lance Aaron

Xul Solar, Proa [Bow], 1925, watercolor and graphite on graph paper 30.2 x 22.2 cm (11 7/8 x 8 3/4 in.), Fundación Pan Klub, Museo Xul Solar, Buenos Aires © DR Fundación Pan Klub –Museo Xul Solar

Xul Solar, Proa [Bow], 1925, watercolor and graphite on graph paper 30.2 x 22.2 cm (11 7/8 x 8 3/4 in.), Fundación Pan Klub, Museo Xul Solar, Buenos Aires © DR Fundación Pan Klub –Museo Xul Solar

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Press

Alcalde, Reframing History with the Blanton’s New Modernist Latin American Art Exhibit

Hyperallergic, An Avant-Garde Magazine That Promoted The Indigenism Movement

The Austin Chronicle, New Exhibit at the Blanton Will Have You Feeling the Bern

Glasstire, The Avant-garde Networks of Amauta: Argentina, Mexico, and Peru in the 1920s 

Credit

The Avant-garde Networks of Amauta: Argentina, Mexico, and Peru in the 1920s is organized by the Blanton Museum of Art and the Museo de Arte de Lima.

Major funding for the exhibition is provided by The Diane and Bruce Halle Foundation.

Generous funding is also provided by Judy and Charles Tate, Jeanne and Michael Klein, PromPerú, and the Scurlock Foundation Exhibition Endowment, with additional support from Sarah and Ernest Butler.