The Affinity of Neoconcretism

Mariola V. Alvarez

ISBN 10: 0520388968 / ISBN 13: 9780520388963

Published by University of California Press, US, 2023

About this Item

The 1950s and early 1960s in Brazil gave birth to a period of incredible optimism and economic development. In The Affinity of Neoconcretism, Mariola V. Alvarez argues that the Neoconcretists-a group of artists and poets working together in Rio de Janeiro from 1959 to 1961-formed an important part of this national transformation. She maps the interactions of the Neoconcretists and discusses how the artists and poets collaborated to challenge existing divides between high and low art and between fields such as fine art and dance. This book reveals how art and intellectual work in Brazil occurred within a local political and social context and also emerged from the transnational movement of artists, artworks, published materials, and ideas.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Affinity of Neoconcretism
• Publisher: University of California Press, US
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0520388968
• ISBN 13: 9780520388963
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 1043 grams

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Synopsis

The 1950s and early 1960s in Brazil gave birth to a period of incredible optimism and economic development. In The Affinity of Neoconcretism, Mariola V. Alvarez argues that the Neoconcretists—a group of artists and poets working together in Rio de Janeiro from 1959 to 1961—formed an important part of this national transformation. She maps the interactions of the Neoconcretists and discusses how the artists and poets collaborated to challenge existing divides between high and low art and between fields such as fine art and dance. This book reveals how art and intellectual work in Brazil occurred within a local political and social context and also emerged from the transnational movement of artists, artworks, published materials, and ideas.

About the Author

Mariola V. Alvarez is Assistant Professor of Art History at Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University. She is the coeditor of New Geographies of Abstract Art in Postwar Latin America.