Making art concrete
Pia Gottschaller · 2017
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About the book
"In the years after World War II, artists in Argentina and Brazil experimented with geo- metric abstractionand engaged in lively debates about the role of the artwork in society. Some of these artists used novel synthetic materials, creating objects that offered an alternative to established traditions in painting-proposing that these objects become part of everyday, concrete reality. Combining art historical and scientific analysis, experts from the Getty Conservation Institute and Getty Research Institute are collaborating with the Coleccio n Patricia Phelpsde Cisneros, a world-renowned collection of Latin American art, to research the formal strategies and material decisions of these artists working in the concrete and neo-concrete vein.Making Art Concrete presents works by Lygia Clark,Willys de Castro, Judith Lau and, Rau l Lozza, Toma sMaldonado, Helio Oiticica, and Rhod Rothfuss, among others with new spectacular photography. The photographs, along with information about the now-invisible processes that determine the appearance of these works, are key to interpreting the artists' technical choices as well as the objects themselves. Indeed, this volume sheds further light on the social, political, and cultural underpinnings of the artists' propositions, making a compelling addition to the field of postwar Latin American art." -- Publisher's website.
Book details
- Year
- 2017
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- The Getty Conservation Institute and the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 143
- ISBN
- 9781606065297
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