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

Ramírez, Mari Carmen, Héctor Olea and Francisco Alambert:

ISBN 10: 0300146981 / ISBN 13: 9780300146981

Published by Houston, Museum of Fine Arts,, 2010

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408 Seiten. Mit zahlreichen Abbildungen. Guter Erhaltungszustand. Hinterer Deckel mit Lager- und Gebrauchsspuren. 9780300146981 Sprache: Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Building on a Construct: The Adolpho Leirner Collection of Brazilian Constructive Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
• Publisher: Houston, Museum of Fine Arts,
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300146981
• ISBN 13: 9780300146981
• Binding: Original-Pappband.
• Seller catalogs:
  • Kunst

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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.