TY - BOOK AU - O'Hare,Mary Kate AU - Bearor,Karen A. ED - Newark Museum. ED - Amon Carter Museum of Western Art. TI - Constructive spirit: abstract art in South and North America, 1920s-50s SN - 9780764952746 : AV - NX456.5.A2 O37 2010 PY - 2010/// CY - Newark, NJ, San Francisco : Pomegranate PB - Newark Museum KW - Art, Abstract KW - South America KW - Exhibitions KW - United States KW - Art, South American KW - 20th century KW - Art, American N1 - Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Newark Museum, Newark, N.J., Feb. 17-May 23, 2010 and at the Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Tex., June 26-Sept. 5, 2010; Includes bibliographical references (p. 178-180) and index; Foreword / Mary Sue Sweeney Price -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction / Mary Kate O'Hare -- Constructive spirit : abstract art in South and North America, 1920s-50s / Mary Kate O'Hare -- Joaquín Torres-García and American art : a lasting dialogue / Cecilia de Torres -- Origin stories : native paradigms in American abstract art / Tricia Laughlin Bloom -- Light play in abstract art and film / Karen A. Bearor -- The masquerade of geometry : identity and abstraction in the Americas / Aliza Edelman -- Monumental and ephemeral : the early São Paulo Bienais / Adele Nelson ER -