Radical geometry : modern art of South America from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection / [exhibition curators, Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro, Adrian Locke with Sarah Lea ; translation from the Spanish, María Amalia García, Ana Cristina Llompart and Jeremy Munday].
Publisher:
Distributed in the United States and Canada by Harry N. AbramsInc. ;
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
173 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 27 cm
"First published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Radical geometry: Modern art of South America from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection', Royal Academy of Arts, London, 5 July - 28 September 2014"--Title page verso. "The exhibition's title ... points to the transgressive and iconoclastic spirit that swept through the visual arts in Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela in the period from th 1930's to the 1970s." "Biographies of the artists" by Sara Meadows on pages 160-166. Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-171) and index.
Contents:
Biographies of the artists / Sara Meadows. Cities of abstract art: urban journeys through South America / María Amalia García -- Signals London, signals Latin America / Isobel Whitelegg -- Catalogue plates -- Uruguay, Argentina / Adrian Locke -- Brazil / Adrian Locke -- Venezuela / Adrian Locke -- Biographies of the artists / Sara Meadows.
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