The long roots of formalism in Brazil / / by Luiz Renato Martins ; edited by Juan Grigera ; translated by Renato Rezende.

• Author: Martins, Luiz Renato.
• TeilnehmendeR: Grigera, Juan.; Rezende, Renato, 1964-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2017.
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English; Portuguese
• Series: Historical Materialism Book Series 157.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxviii, 323 pages).
• Notes: "This book is volume 2 - complementing volume 1: HM 137 The Conspiracy of Modern Art, by Luiz Renato Martins, edited and introduced by Steve Edwards, ISBN 9789004280045 (Brill 2017)."

The present studies on Brazilian modern art seek to specify some of the dominant contradictions of capitalism’s combined but uneven development as these appear from the global ‘periphery’. The grand project of Brasília is the main theme of the first two chapters, which treat the ‘ideal city’ as a ca...

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Acknowledgements (and Some Welcome Words to the Reader)
• Credits
• Introduction / Alex Potts
• From Formation to Dismantling
• Strategies of Occupying Space in Brazil, from Tarsila to Oiticica
• ‘Free Form’: Brazilian Mode of Abstraction or a Malaise in History
• All This Geometry, Where Does It Come from, Where Does It Go?
• Trees of Brazil
• The Situation of Art and the ‘Pensée Unique’
• Formation and Dismantling of a Brazilian Visual System
• From Dismantling to Struggle
• From the Debate about Formation to Strike as Formation
• The Indignity of São Paulo
• Art against the Grain
• Against Formalism: Art, History and Criticism
• Work, Art and History: A Counterpoint between Periphery and Centre
• Notes on Modernisation, from the Periphery: On David Craven’s ‘Alternative Modernism’
• Art as Work (Interview)
• International Benefit Society of Friends of Form and Bulletin on the Brazilian Division
• Back Matter
• Index of Artworks, Architectural Works and Songs Cited
• Bibliography
• Index.