The world-renowned Aldopho Leirner Collection of Brazilian Constructive Art, devoted to modern Latin American art of the 1950s and 1960s, represents forerunners of abstract art in Brazil as well as key works by avant-garde artists: the Grupo Ruptura of S???o Paulo (including Waldemar Cordeiro and Maur???cio Nogueira Lima) and Rio de Janeiro's Grupo Frente (including Lygia Pape and the brothers C???sar and H???lio Oiticica). The collection, now housed at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, also contains important works ...
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The world-renowned Aldopho Leirner Collection of Brazilian Constructive Art, devoted to modern Latin American art of the 1950s and 1960s, represents forerunners of abstract art in Brazil as well as key works by avant-garde artists: the Grupo Ruptura of S???o Paulo (including Waldemar Cordeiro and Maur???cio Nogueira Lima) and Rio de Janeiro's Grupo Frente (including Lygia Pape and the brothers C???sar and H???lio Oiticica). The collection, now housed at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, also contains important works from the Neo-Concrete movement with six major pieces by Lygia Clark and major works from artists who embraced Constructive tenents by working independently, including Sergio Camargo, Mira Schendel, and Alfredo Volpi. This handsomely illustrated volume brings together thirteen essays on the Leirner Collection by preeminent international scholars and offers an important new framework for interpreting Brazilian Modernism. Distributed for The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston Exhibition Schedule: Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland (11/18/09 - 3/10)
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Seller's Description:
New. No Jacket, As Issued. Book 408 pages 307 illustrations 215 in color. Still in the publisher's shrink-wrap. Illustrated boards. Square format. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from the Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland 19 November 2009-21 February 2010.
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VG (Some light scuffing to boards. ) Color illus. paper over boards. 394 pp. Profusely illustrated in color. Published to commemorate a two-day symposium titled "Concretismo and Neoconcretismo: Fifty Years Later, " which was organized by the International Center for the Arts of the Americas. Also accompanied an exhibition of select works from this collection, held at Haus Konstruktiv in Zurich, Switzerland. Includes a preface by Adolpho Leirner himself, as well as many essays by various authors, divided into the following topics: Samson Flexor and Atelier Abstracao, The Graphic Arts, grupo ruptura/Arte Concreto, Grupo Frente, Neo-Concretos, and The Independents. Wonderfully illustrated. Heavy.
