Screen LibraryLygia Pape : a multitude of forms /
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...
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Metropolitan Museum of Art,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| 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 w |
| Item Description: | Catalog of an exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from March 21-July 23, 2017. |
| Carrier Form: | ix, 193 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 28 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 186-187) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781588396167 (hardback : alkaline paper) : 1588396169 (hardback : alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | N6659 |
| CLC: | J177.709.5-28 |
| Call Number: | J177.709.5-28/P214 |
| Contents: |
The risk of invention / Birds of marvelous colors / An anticlass in avant-gardism / Lygia Pape's vital ideas / Outside the frame of the screen / Irreverence and marginality / |