Anmerkungen:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:
Introduction -- The anti-dictionary : the verbal non-object and neoconcrete poetry, books, and installation art -- Experiência Neoconcreta : Jornal do Brasil and its cultural supplement, graphic design, and the modern public -- A synergistic phenomenon : The Neoconcrete ballets and abstraction -- New monumentality and collaboration : Neoconcretism and architecture -- Conclusion.
"The 1950s and early 1960s in Brazil gave birth to a period of incredible optimism and economic development. In The Affinity of Neoconcretism, Mariola V. Alvarez argues that the neoconcretists--a group of artists and poets working together in Rio de Janeiro from 1959 to 1961--formed an important part of this national transformation. She maps the interactions of the neoconcretists and discusses how this network collaborated to challenge existing divides between high and low art and between fields such as fine art and dance. This book reveals the way in which art and intellectual work in Brazil emerged from and within a local political and social context, and out of the transnational movements of artists, artworks, published materials, and ideas"--