Lygia Pape : a multitude of forms / Iria Candela, Glória Ferreira, Sérgio B. Martins, John Rajchman.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pape, Lygia, artist.

Candela, Iria, writer of added commentary.

Ferreira, Glória, writer of added commentary.

Martins, Sérgio B., 1977- writer of added commentary.

Rajchman, John, writer of added commentary.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.), organizer, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pape, Lygia--Exhibitions.

Pape, Lygia.

Pape, Lygia--Interviews.

Art, Brazilian--20th century--Exhibitions.

Art, Brazilian.

Art, Brazilian--21st century--Exhibitions.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Interviews.

Physical Description:

ix, 193 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 28 cm

Distribution:

New Haven : Yale University Press.

Other Title:

Multitude of forms

Place of Publication:

New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2017]

Summary:

An exceptional overview of the experimental, political, and participatory artwork of an important, iconoclastic Latin American artist. Lygia Pape (1927-2004) was an influential Brazilian artist and pioneering member of the postwar avant-garde. She worked across an expansive range of media, including painting, drawing, prints, sculpture, film, performance, poetry, and installation, and her art is now exhibited worldwide. This handsome book provides an extensive examination of her lengthy, prolific career. Pape embraced the ideals of Concrete art and geometric abstraction early on, and later was an active participant in the Neo Concrete movement that championed experimentation and chance. During this time, she created participatory works that questioned the space between artist and viewer, as well as the social context of art itself. Featuring essays from art historians in both North and South America, an illustrated chronology, and two previously untranslated interviews with the artist, Lygia Pape is a testament to Pape's lasting importance to the modern art and culture of Latin America and to her position as a major figure of the international avant-garde. Exhibition: The Met Breuer, New York, USA (21.03-23.07.2017).

Contents:

Preface / Paula Pape

The risk of invention / Iria Candela

Birds of marvelous colors / Lygia Pape interviewed by Lúcia Carneiro and Ileana Pradilla

An anticlass in avant-gardism / Sérgio B. Martins

Lygia Pape's vital ideas / John Rajchman

Outside the frame of the screen / Lygia Pape interviewed by Angélica de Moraes

Irreverence and marginality / Glória Ferreira

Plates

Chronology / Vivian A. Crookett

Checklist

Notes

Selected bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Catalog of an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from March 21-July 23, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-187) and index.

ISBN:

1588396169

9781588396167

OCLC:

959595607