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Stuff You Missed in History Class

Joaquín Torres-García

Stuff You Missed in History Class

iHeartPodcasts

History, Society & Culture

4.223.6K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

Joaquín Torres-García was Uruguayan-born artist who wanted to bring Constructivism and Modernism to Latin America, and worked for much of his life promoting the idea that Latin-American voices should be part of the Modernist art movement.

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Terms apply. Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class, a production of I-Heart Radio.

0:45.9

Hello and welcome to the podcast. I'm Holly Fry.

0:48.7

And I'm Tracy V. Wilson.

0:50.7

I started this episode planning to talk about a different artist before I realized I was

0:57.1

bottoming out on sources that I could read.

1:00.1

Oh, sure.

1:00.8

Which happens.

1:01.9

So I knew that I wanted to do a Latin American artist and if not my original choice

1:07.2

than somebody else.

1:08.5

And then I remembered this dude, uh, who we actually brushed up

1:14.4

against his work in Barcelona, even though he is not originally from Barcelona. And he is a super

1:20.4

influential figure, even if he isn't really super well known in North America outside of art circles.

1:26.8

His story is also kind of interesting because

1:29.0

there's a fun and unexpected toy foray in it. And as I was researching, this artist, Joaquin Torres-Garcia,

1:39.1

connections to other episodes that we've done just started popping up all over the place,

1:43.9

including one person

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