Radical geometry
Subtitle: modern art of South America from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection
By: exhibition curators, Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro, Adrian Locke with Sarah Lea ; translation from the Spanish, María Amalia García, Ana Cristina Llompart and Jeremy Munday
Contributors: Phelps de Cisneros, Patricia, collector; Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain)
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 173
ISBN-13: 9781907533709; 9781907533693
Subjects: South American Art; Brazilian Art; Exhibitions; Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros; Concrete art; Argentine Art; Uruguayan Art; Modern Art; Neo-geo (Art); Venezuelan Art; Abstract Art
Notes: "First published on the occasion of the exhibition 'Radical geometry: Modern art of South America from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection', Royal Academy of Arts, London, 5 July - 28 September 2014"--Verso, title page.

"The exhibition's title ... points to the transgressive and iconoclastic spirit that swept through the visual arts in Uruguay, Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela in the period from th 1930's to the 1970s."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 170-171) and index.
Table of contents: title: Radical geometry: an introduction  -- Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro; title: Cities of abstract art: urban journeys through South America  -- María Amalia García; title: Signals London, signals Latin America  -- Isobel Whitelegg -- Catalogue plates; title: Uruguay, Argentina  -- Adrian Locke; title: Brazil  -- Adrian Locke; title: Venezuela  -- Adrian Locke; title: Biographies of the artists -- Sara Meadows.