Geometric Abstraction
Latin American Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection
Published on 10. April 2001
Book
Hardback
264 pages
978-0-300-08990-5 (ISBN)
Description
Widely praised for its fine collection of Latin American geometric abstract art, the Coleccion Patricia Phelps de Cisneros of Caracas, Venezuela, contains the compelling work of such leading artists as Uruguayan Joaquin Torres-Garcia, Brazilians Lygia Clark and Helio Oiticica, Venezuelans Gego and Jesus Rafael Soto, and Argentinians Tomas Maldonado, Raul 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.
Distributed for the Harvard Art Museum
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.
Distributed for the Harvard Art Museum
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
54 b-w + 66 color illus.
Dimensions
Height: 279 mm
Width: 229 mm
Weight
1706 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-300-08990-5 (9780300089905)
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Persons
Yve-Alain Bois is Joseph Pulitzer, Jr., Professor of Modern Art at Harvard University. Mary Schneider Enriquez is an independent curator and art critic. Paulo Herkenhoff is adjunct curator, department of painting and sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Ariel Jiminez is curator at the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection, Caracas. Luis Perez Oramas is curator at the Patricia Phelps Collection, Caracas.