TY - BOOK AU - Jardí,Enric TI - Torres García SN - 8434302063 PY - 1974/// CY - Barcelona PB - Ediciones Polígrafa KW - CONSTRUCTIVISMO KW - UNIVERSALISMO CONSTRUCTIVO KW - MURALISMO N1 - Origin. Childhood. Education -- Return to the roots. Apprenticeship. First steps -- Early murals. Dissappointments. Belgium -- Discovery of the Mediterranean. Serenity. "Noucentisme" -- The murals of tge Salón de San Jorge. Aspirations. Obstacles -- The longed-for peace. The impossible tranquility -- The crisis of 1917. Dynamism of Barcelona -- Discouragement. Poor art. Unorthodoxy -- America, a dynamic and bitter experience -- Back to the mediterranean. Frustrations. Final episode in the affair of the frescos in the Salón de San Jorge -- A stay in Paris. Feverish activity. Abstraction -- Madrid period. Vain efforts. Impermanence -- The last years in Uruguay. Creative teaching. Americanism -- Significance of his life and his art -- List of works by Torrres García illustrated -- List of miscellaneous illustrations and photographs -- Posthumous exhibitions -- Works written by Torres García -- Selected bibliography -- Biographical chronology of Joaquín Torres García -- Index ER -