Borderless painting as borderless art Antonio Dias between Brazil and Europe Sérgio B. Martins

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Martins, Sérgio B., 1977- author.

Series:

Studies on Latin American art and Latinx art 9

Standardized Title:

Arte negativa para um país negativo. English

Language:

English

Portuguese

Subjects (All):

Dias, Antonio, 1944-2018--Criticism and interpretation.

Dias, Antonio.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California University of California Press [2026]

Summary:

"The artwork of Antonio Dias (1944-2018) uniquely captures the interwoven histories of Brazilian postwar realism and of European conceptualism in the 1960s and 1970s. By tracking Dias's ever-shifting works and circulation as he moved from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, and then to Milan, Borderless Painting as Borderless Art provides the first in-depth study of the artist. Sérgio B. Martins uses Dias's trajectory as a lens to explore different approaches to avant-gardism and its crisis in Brazil, France, and northern Italy, weaving in the perspectives of figures such as Hélio Oiticica, Harald Szeemann, Pierre Restany, Giulio Paolini, and Tommaso Trini, as well as the Fluxus movement. The book ultimately argues that Dias pitted his formation in a semi-peripheral avant-garde against a post-avant-gardist milieu where commodity culture and market relations were far more pervasive and determinant vis-a-vis the arts scene"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Introduction

Realism and underdevelopment

Object and environment

Painting and project

Art and commodity

Notes:

"This work is a translation by the author. Originally published as Arte negativa para um país negativo: Antonio Dias entre o Brasil e a Europa ©2023 Ubu, São Paulo"--Title page verso

Translated from the Portuguese

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 21, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version Martins, Sérgio B., 1977- Borderless painting as borderless art

Print version:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9780520422506

0520422503

OCLC:

1528575386

Publisher Number:

CIPO000352681

CIPO000352680

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license