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Lygia Clark : the abandonment of art, 1948-1988 /

By: Butler, Cornelia H [author.].
Contributor(s): Pérez Oramas, Luis, 1960- [author.] | Bessa, Antonio Sergio [writer of added commentary.] | Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) [host institution.].
Publisher: New York : Museum of Modern Art, [2014]Description: 336 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 31 cm.Content type: text | still image Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780870708909; 9780870708909:; 0870708902.Contained works: Clark, Lygia, 1920-1988, Works. Selections [artist.].Subject(s): Clark, Lygia, 1920-1988 -- Exhibitions | Clark, Lygia, 1920-1988 | Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Exhibitions | Art, Brazilian -- ExhibitionsDDC classification: 759.981 | BUT
Contents:
Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Lygia Clark : a space open to time / Cornelia H. Butler -- Lygia Clark : if you hold a stone / Luis Pérez-Oramas -- Lygia Clark : writing revelations, surrendering authorship / Geaninne Gutiérrez-Guimarães -- Writings by Lygia Clark, 1956-1959 / Lygia Clark -- Ceci n'est pas un mur : the architecture of organic lines / Zeuler R.M. de A. Lima -- Writings by Lygia Clark, 1960-1963 / Lygia Clark -- Lygia Clark and the problem of art / Briony Fer -- Writings by Lygia Clark, 1968-mid 1980s / Lygia Clark -- Lygia Clark : at the border of art / Christine Macel -- Of hands and gloves / Frederico Coelho -- Affective geometry, immanent acts : Lygia Clark and performance / André Lepecki -- The making of a body : Lygia Clark's Anthropophagic slobber / Eleonora Fabião -- Word-drool : the constructive secretions of Lygia Clark / Antonio Sergio Bessa -- Chronology -- Catalogue of the exhibition -- Selected bibliography -- Index of plates -- Trustees of the Museum of Modern Art.
Summary: Published in conjunction with a major monographic retrospective of the work of Brazilian painter, sculptor and performance artist Lygia Clark, this publication presents a linear and progressive survey of the artists groundbreaking practice. Having trained with modern masters from the late 1940s to 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (page 325-332) and index.

Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Lygia Clark : a space open to time / Cornelia H. Butler -- Lygia Clark : if you hold a stone / Luis Pérez-Oramas -- Lygia Clark : writing revelations, surrendering authorship / Geaninne Gutiérrez-Guimarães -- Writings by Lygia Clark, 1956-1959 / Lygia Clark -- Ceci n'est pas un mur : the architecture of organic lines / Zeuler R.M. de A. Lima -- Writings by Lygia Clark, 1960-1963 / Lygia Clark -- Lygia Clark and the problem of art / Briony Fer -- Writings by Lygia Clark, 1968-mid 1980s / Lygia Clark -- Lygia Clark : at the border of art / Christine Macel -- Of hands and gloves / Frederico Coelho -- Affective geometry, immanent acts : Lygia Clark and performance / André Lepecki -- The making of a body : Lygia Clark's Anthropophagic slobber / Eleonora Fabião -- Word-drool : the constructive secretions of Lygia Clark / Antonio Sergio Bessa -- Chronology -- Catalogue of the exhibition -- Selected bibliography -- Index of plates -- Trustees of the Museum of Modern Art.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, May 10-Aug. 24, 2014.

Published in conjunction with a major monographic retrospective of the work of Brazilian painter, sculptor and performance artist Lygia Clark, this publication presents a linear and progressive survey of the artists groundbreaking practice. Having trained with modern masters from the late 1940s to 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.

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