The wanderer, the Earth: nature and history in the work of Sousândrade and Paulo Nazareth / Eduardo Sterzi. Architectural mechanisms and body techniques: the Experiências of Flávio de Carvalho / José T. Lira -- Form and sensibility: discursive discrepancies in concrete and neoconcrete art / Michael Asbury -- The Bauhaus in Brazil: pedagogy and practice / Adele Nelson -- Grundlehre at the Ulm School of Design: a survey of basic design teaching / Martin Mäntele -- Twisting the Modernist curve: Mary Vieira's Polyvolume: Meeting Point / Luisa Valle -- Lina Bo Bardi and the creation of the School of Visual Arts in Parque Lage / Claudia Saldanha -- Tropical reason: the making of a counterculture in Brazil / Frederico Coelho -- Epidermal and visceral works: Lygia Pape and Anna Maria Maiolino / Claudia Calirman -- Word-drool: the constructive secretions of Lygia Clark / Antonio Sergio Bessa -- Emil Forman: removing the silence of things / Fernanda Lopes -- The funeral of Brazilian Modernism: Glauber Rocha and the death of Di Cavalcanti / Marcos Augusto Gonçalves -- Favela Noh: Haroldo de Campos and Hélios Oiticica at the Chelsea Hotel / Eduardo Jorge de Oliveira -- Retrieval of the unreadable: Arno Holz and Sousândrade revisited by Augusto and Haroldo de Campos / Simone Homem de Mello -- The wanderer, the Earth: nature and history in the work of Sousândrade and Paulo Nazareth / Eduardo Sterzi.
Summary:
"A significant contribution on the development and aftermath of post-World War II Concretism in Brazil Form and Feeling features a collection of essays by noted scholars exploring the sensorial, experience-based, and participatory practices pioneered in the 1950s by artists and poets such as Flávio de Carvalho, Ivan Serpa, Hélio Oiticica, Haroldo de Campos, Mary Vieira, Lygia Pape, Anna Maria Maiolino, Lygia Clark, Waly Salomão, and Emil Forman, among many others. Fourteen thought-provoking essays examine how many of their strategies constituted a pertinent critique of the country's wide-ranging embrace of Eurocentric modernity while anticipating a number of practices prevalent among contemporary artists today-namely, the rise of art as social practice, the embrace of pedagogical concerns by artists, and relational aesthetics. The fourteen essays collected in this volume consider the ramifications of modernist abstraction in the second half of the twentieth century and contribute to a growing academic field in postwar Brazilian and Latin American art history. Contributions to this anthology examine the development of modernist ideas that flourished in Brazil during a controversial period interspersed by dictatorial regimes. The global aspect of Brazilian art is especially evident in these studies, presenting the relational complexity of their subjects as transcultural, transnational actors while simultaneously contributing to a growing, increasingly nuanced understanding of visual and material culture, performance, and criticism in Brazil. Form and Feeling continues the important process of re-analyzing the intersections of Concretism and Neo concretism, arguing for greater affinities between the primary and lesser-known cast of characters while equally redistributing the strict geographical divisions of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. This anthology broadly situates this extraordinary period of artistic experimentation in direct relationship to contemporary factors, such as psychoanalysis, educational systems, poetry, politics, and feminism. It crafts innovative relationships about the constructive hierarchies of form and space, poetry and painting, and mathematics and philosophy, thus engendering new positions for a deeply ensconced period in Brazilian history"-- Provided by publisher.
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