Radical FormA timely look into how abstract art in South America aimed to envision a better society Emphasizing the open ended and self critical nature of the projects of abstraction in South America from the 1930s through the mid 1960s, this study focuses on the painting practices of Joaqun Torres Garca, Toms Maldonado, Alejandro Otero, and Lygia Clark. Megan A. Sullivan positions the adoption of modernist abstraction by South American artists as part of a