Sur moderno : journeys of abstraction, The Patricia Phelps de Cisneros gift / edited by Inés Katzenstein, María Amalia García ; with Karen Grimson, Michaëla de Lacaze.

Sur moderno: Journeys of Abstraction' explores the abstract and Concrete art movements that flourished in South America between the mid-1940s and the late 1970s in light of the profound cultural transformations that gave rise to them. Published in conjunction with a major exhibition at the Museum of...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (Host institution)
Other Authors: Katzenstein, Inés (Editor)
García, María Amalia, 1975- (Editor)
Grimson, Karen (Contributor)
Mohrmann, Michaëla (Contributor)
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : The Museum of Modern Art, [2019]
Subjects:
Phelps de Cisneros, Patricia > Art collections > Catalogs.
Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros > Exhibitions.
Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros > Catalogs.
Art, Abstract > South America > Exhibitions.
Art, Abstract > Venezuela > Catalogs.
Art, Abstract > Brazil > Catalogs.
Art, Abstract > Argentina > Catalogs.
Art, Abstract > Uruguay > Catalogs.
Phelps de Cisneros, Patricia.
Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros.
Art, Abstract.
Art > Private collections.
Argentina.
Brazil.
South America.
Uruguay.
Venezuela.
Phelps de Cisneros, Patricia, > 1950-
Museum of Modern Art > New York, NY.
Abstrakte Kunst.
Kinetische Kunst.
Konkrete Kunst.
Neokonkretismus.
Sammlung.
Schenkung.
Argentinien.
Brasilien.
Lateinamerika.
Südamerika.
Catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Genre:
Catalogs.
Exhibitions.
Exhibition catalogs.
Physical Description:224 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 x 24 cm
Variant Title:
Journeys of abstraction
Patricia Phelps de Cisneros gift
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry
  • Introduction / Inés Katzenstein and María Amalia García
  • An interview with Patricia Phelps de Cisneros / Glenn D. Lowry
  • Artworks as artifacts, artworks as manifestos : plates
  • Bodies of/or things / Irene V. Small
  • Persistent forms: connections between inventionist and neo-concrete art / María Amalia García
  • Between wall and city: geometric abstraction's local contingency / Mónica Amor
  • Modern as abstract : plates
  • An interview with Luis Pérez-Oramas / Inés Katzenstein.