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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 708
EAN num: 9780300089905
ISBN number: 0300089902
Label: Harvard University Art Museums
Manufacturer: Harvard University Art Museums
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 264
Printing Date: May 01, 2001
Publishing house: Harvard University Art Museums
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Studio: Harvard University Art Museums
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Widely praised for its fine collection of Latin American geometric abstract art, the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros of Caracas, Venezuela, contains the compelling work of such leading artists as Uruguayan Joaquín Torres-Garcia, Brazilians Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica, Venezuelans Gego and Jésus Rafael Soto, and Argentinians Tomás Maldonado, Raúl Lozza, and Alfredo Hlito. This lavishly illustrated book presents a selection of more than eighty paintings, drawings, and sculptures from the Cisneros collection, representing some two dozen Latin American artists. The works were completed between 1934 and 1988, but the vast majority date from the 'heroic' years of geometric abstraction, 1948–1966.
This special bilingual volume explores in both English and Spanish the history and importance of the major movements that were dedicated to geometric abstraction. These movements include Concretism and Neo-Concretism in Brazil, Constructivism in Uruguay, the Madi Group and Concrete artists in Argentina, and Kinetic Abstraction and Neo-Constructivism in Venezuela. The book also offers biographies of the artists and an intriguing selection of their statements and manifestos.
This catalogue accompanies an exhibition from the Cisneros Collection at Harvard's Fogg Art Museum from 3 March to 21 October 2001.
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The catalogue for a 2001 exhibition held at the Fogg Art Museum in Cambridge, MA, this book focuses on the largest private collection in the world of modern Latin American art, rich in Brazilian, Argentine and Venezuelian works. Divided into several essays (especially interesting are the one comparing Minimalism and Neo-Concretism and the one centered on the influence of Paris on the Latin American artists who stayed there)it is full of high-quality illustrations of rarely seen works (I discovered Lygia Clark's "Bichos", interactive unfolding steel structures which are a reflexion on light and form and which call on to the spectator to be part of this reflexion)and is a treasure trove of documents on the various movements (especially press articles of the 1950's and 1960's).
Highly recommended.
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