Form and Feeling : : The Making of Concretism in Brazil / / ed. by Antonio Sergio Bessa.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Asbury, Michael,; Bessa, Antonio Sergio,; Calirman, Claudia,; Coelho, Frederico,; Gonçalves, Marcos Augusto,; Gonçalves, Marcos,; Homem de Mello, Simone,; Lira, Jose,; Lira, José T.,; Lopes, Fernanda,; Mello, Simone Homem de,; Mäntele, Martin,; Nelson, Adele,; Oliveira, Eduardo Jorge de,; Oliveira, Eduardo,; Saldanha, Claudia,; Sterzi, Eduardo,; Valle, Luisa,
• HerausgeberIn: Bessa, Antonio Sergio,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) :; 96 b/w illustrations

A significant contribution on the development and aftermath of post–World War II Concretism in BrazilForm 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Form and Feeling -- Posteverything—An Introduction -- I -- 1. Architectural Mechanisms and Body Techniques: The Experiências of Flávio de Carvalho -- 2. Form and Sensibility: Discursive Discrepancies in Concrete and Neoconcrete Art -- 3. The Bauhaus in Brazil: Pedagogy and Practice -- 4. Grundlehre at the Ulm School of Design: A Survey of Basic Design Teaching -- 5. Twisting the Modernist Curve: Mary Vieira’s Polyvolume: Meeting Point -- 6. Lina Bo Bardi and the Creation of the School of Visual Arts in Parque Lage -- II -- 7. Tropical Reason: The Making of a Counterculture in Brazil -- 8. Epidermal and Visceral Works: Lygia Pape and Anna Maria Maiolino -- 9. Word-Drool: The Constructive Secretions of Lygia Clark -- 10. Emil Forman: Removing the Silence of Things -- 11. The Funeral of Brazilian Modernism: Glauber Rocha and the Death of Di Cavalcanti -- III -- 12. Favela Noh: Haroldo de Campos and Hélio Oiticica at the Chelsea Hotel -- 13. Retrieval of the Unreadable: Arno Holz and Sousândrade Revisited by Augusto and Haroldo de Campos -- 14. The Wanderer, the Earth: Nature and History in the Work of Sousândrade and Paulo Nazareth -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Index