Making art concrete
Subtitle: works from Argentina and Brazil in the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
By: Pia Gottschaller and Aleca Le Blanc ; edited by Pia Gottschaller, Aleca Le Blanc, Zanna Gilbert, Tom Learner, and Andrew Perchuk
Contributors: Le Blanc, Aleca, 1972- author, editor; Gilbert, Zanna, 1980- editor; Learner, Tom, editor; Perchuk, Andrew, editor; Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA (Project); Getty Research Institute; Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros; Getty Conservation Institute
Publisher: The Getty Conservation Institute and the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 143
ISBN-13: 9781606065297
Subjects: Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros; Art; Exhibitions; Concrete art; Private collections
Description: "In the years after World War II, artists in Argentina and Brazil experimented with geo- metric abstractionand engaged in lively debates about the role of the artwork in society. Some of these artists used novel synthetic materials, creating objects that offered an alternative to established traditions in painting-proposing that these objects become part of everyday, concrete reality. Combining art historical and scientific analysis, experts from the Getty Conservation Institute and Getty Research Institute are collaborating with the Coleccio n Patricia Phelpsde Cisneros, a world-renowned collection of Latin American art, to research the formal strategies and material decisions of these artists working in the concrete and neo-concrete vein.Making Art Concrete presents works by Lygia Clark,Willys de Castro, Judith Lau and, Rau l Lozza, Toma sMaldonado, Helio Oiticica, and Rhod Rothfuss, among others with new spectacular photography. The photographs, along with information about the now-invisible processes that determine the appearance of these works, are key to interpreting the artists' technical choices as well as the objects themselves. Indeed, this volume sheds further light on the social, political, and cultural underpinnings of the artists' propositions, making a compelling addition to the field of postwar Latin American art." -- Publisher's website.
Notes: "This volume is published on the occasion of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, an initiative of the Getty with arts institutions across Southern California, and accompanies the exhibition Making Art Concrete: Works from Argentina and Brazil in the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, held at the J. Paul Getty Museum from 16 September 2017 through 11 February 2018. The exhibition was co-organized by the Getty Conservation Institute and the Getty Research Institute, and has been made possible by the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros."--ECIP galley.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / James Cuno; title: The material of form: how concrete artists responded to the second industrial revolution in Latin America / Aleca Le Blanc; title: Making concrete art / Pia Gottschaller; title: Plates; title: Some remarks on documentation and analysis techniques / Douglas MacLennan and Pia Gottschaller.