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Title: Form and Feeling
Condition: New
Subtitle: The Making of Concretism in Brazil
Author: Michael Asbury
Contributor: Martin Mäntele (Contributions by), Claudia Saldanha (Contributions by), Michael Asbury (Contributions by), Jose Lira (Contributions by), Frederico Coelho (Contributions by), Adele Nelson (Contributions by), Eduardo Sterzi (Contributions by), Simone Homem de Mello (Contributions by), Antonio Sergio Bessa (Contributions by), Fernanda Lopes (Contributions by), Luisa Valle (Contributions by), Antonio Sergio Bessa (Edited by), Claudia Calirman (Contributions by), Marcos Gonçalves (Contributions by)
Format: Hardback
ISBN-10: 0823289109
EAN: 9780823289103
ISBN: 9780823289103
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Genre: Literary Criticism
Topic: Arts & Photography, History
Release Date: 09/02/2021
Description:

Winner, 2022 Association of University Presses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show in the Scholarly Illustrated Category

A significant contribution on the development and aftermath of post–World War II Concretism in Brazil
Form and Feeling features a collection of essays by noted scholars exploring the sensorial, experience-based, and participatory practices pioneered in the 1950s by artists and poets such as Flávio de Carvalho, Ivan Serpa, Hélio Oiticica, Haroldo de Campos, Mary Vieira, Lygia Pape, Anna Maria Maiolino, Lygia Clark, Waly Salomão, and Emil Forman, among many others. Fourteen thought-provoking essays examine how many of their strategies constituted a pertinent critique of the country’s wide-ranging embrace of Eurocentric modernity while anticipating a number of practices prevalent among contemporary artists today—namely, the rise of art as social practice, the embrace of pedagogical concerns by artists, and relational aesthetics.
The fourteen essays collected in this volume consider the ramifications of modernist abstraction in the second half of the twentieth century and contribute to a growing academic field in postwar Brazilian and Latin American art history. Contributions to this anthology examine the development of modernist ideas that flourished in Brazil during a controversial period interspersed by dictatorial regimes. The global aspect of Brazilian art is especially evident in these studies, presenting the relational complexity of their subjects as transcultural, transnational actors while simultaneously contributing to a growing, increasingly nuanced understanding of visual and material culture, performance, and criticism in Brazil.
Form and Feeling continues the important process of re-analyzing the intersections of Concretism and Neo concretism, arguing for greater affinities between the primary and lesser-known cast of characters while equally redistributing the strict geographical divisions of São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro. This anthology broadly situates this extraordinary period of artistic experimentation in direct relationship to contemporary factors, such as psychoanalysis, educational systems, poetry, politics, and feminism. It crafts innovative relationships about the constructive hierarchies of form and space, poetry and painting, and mathematics and philosophy, thus engendering new positions for a deeply ensconced period in Brazilian history.

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