Anna Bella Geiger: Native Brazil/Alien Brazil - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8531000815 ISBN 13: 9788531000812

Publisher: Museu de Arte de São Paulo/Museum voor Actuele Kunst/Museu de Arte Moderna, 2020

Synopsis

A long-needed appraisal of the abstractions, mail art and conceptual work of Anna Bella Geiger, one of postwar Brazil’s unsung pioneers

Brazilian artist Anna Bella Geiger (born 1933) was one of the first artists to engage in abstract art in Brazil, participating in the historic exhibition of Brazilian abstract art held in Rio de Janeiro in 1953. Since the 1970s she has also worked with video, conceptual art and mail art.

Native Brazil/Alien Brazil, named after her provocative political postcard series from 1976, covers the artist’s entire seven-decade career from the 1950s to the present, providing an overview of the extraordinary scope and diversity of Geiger’s work and themes, including informal abstraction, self-portraits, maps, landscapes and equations, as well as the artist’s interest in the interior of the human body, and her critiques of art systems and analyses of political and historical issues of Brazil.

Edition details

• Publisher: Museu de Arte de São Paulo/Museum voor Actuele Kunst/Museu de Arte Moderna
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: Portuguese
• ISBN 10: 8531000815
• ISBN 13: 9788531000812
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288
• Editor: Pedrosa Adriano, Toledo Tomás