Playing their game : France, Latin America, and the transformation of geometric abstraction in postwar Paris

Martha L. Sesín

This study considers a specific form of geometric abstraction initiated by a group of Latin American artists — including the Argentineans Julio Le Pare and Martha Boto, and the Venezuelans Carlos Cruz-Diez and Jesus Rafael Soto —who were active in Paris during the early 1960s. The work of these arti