Jorge Schwartz

Jorge Schwartz graduated in Latin American Studies and English from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and holds a master’s and doctorate in Literary Theory and Comparative Literature from USP, where he was a full professor of Hispanic American literature. He has authored numerous books and articles on visual arts and literary criticism and has curated several exhibitions. He also directed the Lasar Segall Museum (Ibram/MinC). With Companhia das Letras, he published “Fervor das vanguardas” and “Borges babilônico,” among other works.

Contributions

The Americas | A Global Museum

A Flâneur in Montevideo: Joaquín Torres-Garcías “La ciudad sin nombre”

Jorge Schwartz discusses the prominence of the urban in Joaquín Torres-García’s visual and literary works. A major retrospective at MoMA, The Arcadian Modern, reveals a totalizing and structural vision of Joaquín Torres-García’s thinking, mainly through his painting, sculpture, objects, and, of particular interest to me, bibliographic production: his theoretical texts about Constructivism, autobiographical texts, manifestos,…