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

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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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) (Organizer, Host institution)
Other Authors: 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)
Language:English
Published: New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2017]
Subjects:
Pape, Lygia > Exhibitions.
Pape, Lygia > Interviews.
Pape, Lygia > Expositions.
Pape, Lygia.
Pape, Lygia, > 1929-2004.
Art, Brazilian > 20th century > Exhibitions.
Art, Brazilian > 21st century > Exhibitions.
Art brésilien > 20e siècle > Expositions.
Art brésilien > 21e siècle > Expositions.
1900-2099
Exhibition catalogs.
Interviews.
Genre:
Exhibitions.
Interviews.
Expositions.
Exhibition catalogs.
Physical Description:ix, 193 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits ; 28 cm
Variant Title:
Multitude of forms
Format: Book
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.