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Boulton Moderno: 1928 - 1944 (Hardcover)
Alfredo Boulton; Text written by Juan Bonet, Luis Perez Oramas, Sofia Maduro
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Alfredo Boulton (1908-95), art critic, historian and photographer,
was one of 20th-century Venezuela's most prominent intellectuals.
His large body of photographic work--focusing mostly on the people,
landscapes, art and history of Venezuela--is little known, and yet
no intellectual before Boulton had ever expressed Venezuela
visually. This hardcover volume focuses specifically on Boulton the
modernist artist through his photographic work from 1928 to 1944,
which he collected in albums that he designed as tools for
selecting and presenting images. With 50 full pages of albums and a
selection of individual reproductions, Boulton Moderno offers a
modern photographic vision of Venezuela. Texts by art critic Juan
Manuel Bonet, curator Luis Perez-Oramas and curator Sofia Vollmer
Maduro illuminate the context of Boulton's life and his prolific
output.
Published in conjunction with a major retrospective of the work of
Brazilian painter, sculptor and performance artist Lygia Clark,
this publication presents a linear and progressive survey of the
artist's groundbreaking practice. Having trained with modern
masters from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s, Clark was at the
forefront of Constructivist and Neo-Concretist movements in Brazil
and fostered the active participation of the spectator through her
works. Examining Clark's output from her early abstract
compositions to the "biological architectures" and "relational
objects" she created late in her career, this is the most
comprehensive volume on the artist available in English. Three
sections based on key phases throughout her career--Abstraction,
Neo-Concretism and The Abandonment of Art--examine these critical
moments in Clark's production, anchor significant concepts or
constellations of works that mark a definitive step in her work,
and shed light on circumstances in her life as an artist. Featuring
a significant selection of previously unpublished archival texts of
Clark's personal writings, it is a vital source of primary
documentation for twentieth-century art history scholarship.
Lygia Clark (1920-1988) trained in Rio de Janeiro and Paris from
the late 1940s to the mid-1950s. From the late 1960s through the
1970s she created a series of unconventional artworks in parallel
to a lengthy psychoanalytic therapy, leading her to develop a
series of therapeutic propositions grounded in art. Clark has
become a major reference for contemporary artists dealing with the
limits of conventional forms of art.
The tradition of portraiture in Latin America is astonishingly long
and rich. For over 2,000 years, portraits have been used to
preserve the memory of the deceased, bolster the social standing of
the aristocracy, mark the deeds of the mighty, advance the careers
of politicians, record rites of passage, and mock symbols of the
status quo. This beautiful and wide-ranging book-the first to
explore the tradition of portraiture in Latin America from
pre-Columbian times to the present day-features some 200 works from
fifteen countries. Retratos (Portraits) presents an engaging
variety of works by such well-known figures as Diego Rivera, Frida
Kahlo, Fernando Botero, and Jose Campeche as well as stunning
examples by anonymous and obscure artists. Distinguished
contributors discuss the significance of portraits in ancient Mayan
civilizations, in the world of colonial Iberians, in the political
struggles of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and in a
remarkable range of other times and locations. With a wealth of
informative details and exquisite color illustrations, Retratos
invites readers to appreciate Latin American portraits and their
many meanings as never before.
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