Building on a Construct : The Adolpho Leirner Collection of Brazilian Constructive Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Mari Carmen Ramírez; Héctor Olea

ISBN 10: 0300146981 / ISBN 13: 9780300146981

Published by The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, 2010

About this Item

408 pages 307 illustrations 215 in color. Sharp edges and corners, tight binding, and clean interior. Illustrated boards. Square format. Bound in illustrated paper covered boards and issued without a dustjacket. Published on the occasion of the exhibition from the Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland 19 November 2009-21 February 2010.

Seller Inventory # 029091

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Building on a Construct : The Adolpho Leirner Collection of Brazilian Constructive Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
• Publisher: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300146981
• ISBN 13: 9780300146981
• Binding: Cloth
• Condition: Fine Condition
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket, As Issued
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art: Latin American
  • Art: Collections

About this title

Synopsis

The world-renowned Aldopho Leirner Collection of Brazilian Constructive Art, devoted to modern Latin American art of the 1950s and 1960s, represents forerunners of abstract art in Brazil as well as key works by avant-garde artists: the Grupo Ruptura of São Paulo (including Waldemar Cordeiro and Maurício Nogueira Lima) and Rio de Janeiro’s Grupo Frente (including Lygia Pape and the brothers César and Hélio Oiticica). The collection, now housed at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, also contains important works from the Neo-Concrete movement with six major pieces by Lygia Clark and major works from artists who embraced Constructive tenents by working independently, including Sergio Camargo, Mira Schendel, and Alfredo Volpi.

This handsomely illustrated volume brings together thirteen essays on the Leirner Collection by preeminent international scholars and offers an important new framework for interpreting Brazilian Modernism.

Distributed for The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

Exhibition Schedule:

Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland (11/18/09 – 3/10)

About the Author

Mari Carmen Ramírez is the Wortham Curator of Latin American Art and the director of the International Center for the Arts of the Americas at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.