Yve-Alain Bois, Mary Schneider Enriquez, Paulo Herkenhoff, Ariel Jiménez, and Luis Enrique Pérez Oramas

2001. 261 pp., 120 illus., 66 in color; 9 1/4 x 11 1/2 in.

ISBN 0-300-08990-2 Cloth. $65.00.
ISBN 1-891771-16-9 Paper. $35.00.
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Widely praised for its fine collection of Latin American geometric abstract art, the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection of Caracas, Venezuela, contains the compell-ing work of such leading artists as Uruguayan Joaquín Torres-García, Brazilians Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica, Venezuelans Gego and Jésus Rafael Soto, and Argentinians Tomás Maldonado, Raúl Lozza, and Alfredo Hlito. This lavishly illustrated book presents 65 paintings, drawings, and sculptures from the Cisneros collection that are on exhibition at the Fogg Art Museum from 3 March to 4 November 2001.

This bilingual volume explores in English and Spanish the history and importance of the major movements that were dedicated to geometric abstraction. These include concretism and neo-concretism in Brazil, constructivism in Uruguay, the Madí Group and concrete artists in Argentina, and kineticism in Venezuela. The book also offers biographies of the 26 artists and an intriguing selection of their statements and manifestos.

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