Building on a Construct: The Adolpho Leirner Collection of Brazilian Constructive Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (Elgar New Horizons in Business Analytics series)
Hector Olea
ISBN 10: 0300146981 ISBN 13: 9780300146981
Published by Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2010
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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. This illustrated volume brings together thirteen essays on the Leirner Collection. Editor(s): Olea, Hector; Ramirez, Mari Carmen. Series: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Num Pages: 404 pages, 92 black-&-white illustrations + 215 colour images. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; 1KLSB; 3JJPG; 3JJPK; ACX; AGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 292 x 267 x 30. Weight in Grams: 2631. . 2010. hardcover. Not a first edition copy. . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Seller Inventory # KGS0001683
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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.
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Title: Building on a Construct: The Adolpho Leirner...
Publisher: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Publication Date: 2010
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New