Forming Abstraction: Art and Institutions in Postwar Brazil - Couverture rigide

Nelson, Adele

 
9780520379848: Forming Abstraction: Art and Institutions in Postwar Brazil
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0520379845 ISBN 13 : 9780520379848
Editeur : University of California Press, 2022

Synopsis

Art produced outside hegemonic centers is often seen as a form of derivation or relegated to a provisional status. Forming Abstraction turns this narrative on its head. In the first book-length study of postwar Brazilian art and culture, Adele Nelson highlights the importance of exhibitionary and pedagogical institutions in the development of abstract art in Brazil. By focusing on the formation of the São Paulo Biennial in 1951; the early activities of artists Geraldo de Barros, Lygia Clark, Waldemar Cordeiro, Hélio Oiticica, Lygia Pape, and Ivan Serpa; and the ideas of critics like Mário Pedrosa, Nelson illuminates the complex, strategic processes of citation and adaption of both local and international forms. The book ultimately demonstrates that Brazilian art institutions and abstract artistic groups--and their exhibitions of abstract art in particular--served as crucial loci for the articulation of societal identities in a newly democratic nation at the onset of the Cold War.

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À propos de l'auteur

Adele Nelson is Assistant Professor of Art History and Associate Director of the Center for Latin American Visual Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

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Éditeur
University of California Press
Date d'édition
2022
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0520379845
ISBN 13 
9780520379848
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
392
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
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