Brazil

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Avant-garde[edit]

Antropofagia[edit]

Concretism, Concrete poetry (1950s)[edit]

Poesia-práxis (1960s)[edit]

Neoconcretism[edit]

Artists
in Rio de Janeiro: Ivan Serpa, Abraham Palatnik, Almir Mavignier, Mário Pedrosa.
Grupo Neoconcreto (1959-1961): Lygia Clark, Hélio Oiticica, Amílcar de Castro, Lygia Pape, Franz Weissmann, Ferreira Gullar.
Writings
  • Ferreira Gullar, "1ª Exposição Neoconcreta", Jornal do Brasil / Suplemento Dominical, Rio de Janeiro, 14 Mar 1959, pp 4-5. [1]
  • "Manifesto Neoconcreto", Jornal do Brasil / Suplemento Dominical, Rio de Janeiro, 21 Mar 1959, pp 4-5. Signed by Amílcar de Castro, Ferreira Gullar, Franz Weissmann, Lygia Clark, Lygia Pape, Reynaldo Jardim, and Theon Spanudis. [2] (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • Ferreira Gullar, "Teoria do não-objeto", Jornal do Brasil / Suplemento Dominical, Rio de Janeiro, 19-20 Dec 1959, p 1; repr. in Projeto Construtivo Brasileiro na Arte: 1950-1962, ed. Aracy A. Amaral, São Paulo: Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro: MAM-RJ, 1977, pp 85-94. Published as a key contribution to the II Exposição Neoconcreta held in Rio de Janeiro in 1960. [3] [4] [5] (Brazilian Portuguese)
    • "Theory of the Non-object", in The Object, ed. Antony Hudek, London: Whitechapel, 2014, p 120ff. (English)
  • Lygia Clark, Hélio Oiticica, Cartas, 1964-1974, ed. & intro. Luciano Figueiredo, Rio de Janeiro: UFRJ, 1996; 2nd ed., 1998, 264 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • Hélio Oiticica, "The Senses Pointing Toward a New Transformation" [1969], ARTMargins 7:2, Jun 2018, pp 129-135. With an introduction by Jo Melvin and Luke Skrebowski. Written between 18-25 June 1969 in London and submitted to the British art magazine Studio International, but never appeared in print. The essay negotiates art after objecthood and contextualises Oiticica's project to effect a definitive radicalization of anti-art.
  • Ferreira Gullar, Experiência neoconcreta: momento-limite da arte, eds. Augusto Massi and Julia Bussius, São Paulo: Cosac Naify, 2007, 164 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • Hélio Oiticica, Experimentar o experimental, eds. Marcos Lacerda and Sergio Cohn, Lisbon: oca, 2019, 96 pp. (Portuguese)
Catalogues
  • Lygia Clark, Rio de Janeiro: Funarto, 1980, 60 pp. With texts by Ferreira Gullar, Mário Pedrosa, and Lygia Clark. (Brazilian Portuguese)
Literature
  • Rachel Price, "Object, Non-object, Trans-object, Relational Object: From Concrete Poetry to A Nova Objetividade", ch 6 in Price, The Object of the Atlantic: Concrete Aesthetics in Cuba, Brazil, and Spain, 1868-1968, Northwestern University Press, 2014. [6] (English)
  • Mónica Amor, Theories of the Nonobject: Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela 1944-1969, University of California Press, 2016, 344 pp. Introduction. [7] (English)
  • Adrian Anagnost, Spatial Orders, Social Forms: Art and the City in Modern Brazil, Yale University Press, 2022. Publisher. (English)
  • Mariola V. Alvarez, The Affinity of Neoconcretism: Interdisciplinary Collaborations in Brazilian Modernism, 1954–1964, Oakland, CA: University of California Press (Studies on Latin American Art and Latinx Art), 2023, 304 pp. Publisher. [9] (English)

Arte cinética, Kinetic art[edit]

Tropicália (Tropicalismo)[edit]

Computer art[edit]

Mail art[edit]

Video art[edit]

New media art, Media culture[edit]

Media theory[edit]

See also[edit]

  • Malasartes 1, ed. Mario Aratanha, Rio de Janeiro, Sep-Nov 1975, 36 pp. First of three issues of the magazine. [13] (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • Jacqueline Barnitz, Twentieth-Century Art of Latin America, 2001, xxii+400 pp; 2nd ed., rev. & exp., with Patrick Frank, Austin: University of Texas Press, 2015, xviii+415 pp.
  • Claudia Calirman, Brazilian Art under Dictatorship: Antonio Manuel, Artur Barrio, and Cildo Meireles, Duke University Press, 2012. Introduction, [15]. (English)
  • Pedro R. Erber, Breaching the Frame: The Rise of Contemporary Art in Brazil and Japan, University of California Press, 2014, 248 pp. [16] (English)
  • Kaira M. Cabañas, Immanent Vitalities: Meaning and Materiality in Modern and Contemporary Art, Oakland, CA: University of California Press (Studies on Latin American Art and Latinx Art), 2021, 240 pp. Publisher. [18] (English)