Lygia Pape
Subtitle: a multitude of forms
By: Iria Candela [and three others]
Contributors: Pape, Lygia, artist; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Metropolitan Museum of Art
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9781588396167
Subjects: Interviews; Brazilian Art; Exhibitions
Other titles: Multitude of forms
Description: 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).
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.
Table of contents: title: Preface / -- Paula Pape; title: The risk of invention  -- Iria Candela; title: Birds of marvelous colors  -- Lygia Pape interviewed by Lúcia Carneiro and Ileana Pradilla; title: An anticlass in avant-gardism  -- Sérgio B. Martins; title: Lygia Pape's vital ideas  -- John Rajchman; title: Outside the frame of the screen  -- Lygia Pape interviewed by Angélica de Moraes; title: Irreverence and marginality -- Glória Ferreira-- Plates-- Chronology /-- Vivian A. Crookett-- Checklist-- Notes-- Selected bibliography-- Index.