Acknowledgements
Credits
Introduction
Alex Potts
From Formation to Dismantling
1 Strategies of Occupying Space in Brazil, from Tarsila to
Oiticica
2 ‘Free Form’: Brazilian Mode of Abstraction or a Malaise in
History
3 All This Geometry, Where Does It Come from, Where Does It
Go?
4 Trees of Brazil
5 The Situation of Art and the ‘Pensée Unique’
6 Formation and Dismantling of a Brazilian Visual System
From Dismantling to Struggle
7 From the Debate about Formation to Strike as Formation
8 The Indignity of São Paulo
9 Art against the Grain
Against Formalism: Art, History and Criticism
10 Work, Art and History: A Counterpoint between Periphery and
Centre
11 Notes on Modernisation, from the Periphery: On David
Craven’s ‘Alternative Modernism’
12 Art as Work (Interview)
13 International Benefit Society of Friends of Form and
Bulletin on the Brazilian Division
Index of Artworks Cited
Bibliography
Index
Luiz Renato Martinsteaches art history at the Visual Arts
Department of the University of So Paulo, working also as a
researcher associated to the Economical History postgraduate
programme at USP. As a visitor, he lectured in Mexico, Chile,
Argentina, Spain, France, UK and USA universities, and has
published books and articles on modern art, film and the
contemporary global crisis's issues.
is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow based at University
College London Institute of Americas. His research focuses on the
political economy of Latin America, particularly Brazil and
Argentina and has been a visiting lecturer in Argentina, Brazil,
Belgium and USA.
"Martins’ deeply engaged and richly informed reflections on the
particularities of the Brazilian situation analyse the vicissitudes
of artistic and architectural modernism as it took shape in Brazil
in the mid-twentieth century, and its subsequent replacement by an
apolitical formalist aestheticism in the postmodern age of
neoliberal capitalism."
Alex Potts, Max Loehr Collegiate Professor, University of Michigan
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