Theories of the nonobject : Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, 1944-1969 /

• Main Author: Amor, Mónica (συγγραφέας.)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2016
• Subjects: Τέχνη σκυροδέματος > Νότια Αμερική > Ιστορία > 20ός αιώνας; Τέχνη, Αργεντίνικη > 20ός αιώνας; Τέχνη, Βραζιλιάνικη; Τέχνη Βενεζουέλας; Αντικείμενο (Αισθητική)

"Theories of the Nonobject investigates the crisis of the sculptural and painterly object in the concrete, neoconcrete, and constructivist practices of artists in Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela, with case studies of specific movements, artists, and critics. Amor traces their role in the signi...

Table of Contents:

• At painting's edge : Arte Concreto Invención, 1944-46
• The concrete idea on its way to the nonobject, 1949-59
• From work to frame, in between, and beyond : the topology of the nonobject, 1959-66
• Forms of affect : Hélio Oiticica's Parangolés, 1964-65
• Another geometry : Gego's Reticulárea, 1969-77.