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Breaching the Frame: The Rise of Contemporary Art in Brazil and Japan
Pedro R. Erber
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Description for Breaching the Frame: The Rise of Contemporary Art in Brazil and Japan
Hardback. Circa 1960, artists working at the margins of the international art world breached the frame of canvas painting and ruptured the institutional frame of art. This title shows how artists and critics in Brazil and Japan brought modern painting to a point of crisis that paved the way for the radical experiments of the 1960s generation. Num Pages: 248 pages, 50 b/w scattered, 24 color on 16 page insert. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KLSB; ACXJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 261 x 183 x 20. Weight in Grams: 820.
Circa 1960, artists working at the margins of the international art world breached the frame of canvas painting and ruptured the institutional frame of art. Members of the Brazilian Neoconcrete group, such as Helio Oiticica and Lygia Clark, and their counterparts in Japan, such as Akasegawa Genpei and the Kansai-based Gutai Art Association, challenged the boundaries between art and non-art, between fiction and reality, between visual artwork and its discursive frame. In place of the indefinitely deferred promise of a revolution of the senses, artists called for "direct action" here and now. Pedro Erber situates the beginnings of these profound ... Read more
Circa 1960, artists working at the margins of the international art world breached the frame of canvas painting and ruptured the institutional frame of art. Members of the Brazilian Neoconcrete group, such as Helio Oiticica and Lygia Clark, and their counterparts in Japan, such as Akasegawa Genpei and the Kansai-based Gutai Art Association, challenged the boundaries between art and non-art, between fiction and reality, between visual artwork and its discursive frame. In place of the indefinitely deferred promise of a revolution of the senses, artists called for "direct action" here and now. Pedro Erber situates the beginnings of these profound ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of California Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520282438
SKU
V9780520282438
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About Pedro R. Erber
Pedro R. Erber teaches in the Department of Romance Studies at Cornell University. He holds a Ph.D. in Asian Studies from Cornell University, M.A. in philosophy from Pontificia Universidade Catolica do Rio de Janeiro, and B.A. in philosophy from Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro. Erber is the author of Politica e verdade no pensamento de Martin Heidegger and articles ... Read more
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