Lygia Pape : Tecelares
9780300269734
- Title:
- Lygia Pape : Tecelares / edited by Mark Pascale ; with essays by Adele Nelson, Mark Pascale, and Maria Cristina Rivera Ramos
- Resource Type:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Imprint:
-
Chicago, IL : Art Institute of Chicago, [2023]
New Haven, CT: Distributed by Yale University Press
©2023 - Description:
- 175 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm.
- Note:
- Catalog of an exhibition held at the Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, 11 February - 5 June, 2023.
- Summary:
- One of Brazil's best-known contemporary artists, Lygia Pape (1927-2004) was a founding member of the Neo-Concrete movement in the late 1950s along with artists such as Lygia Clark and Ȟlio Oiticica. Pape explored new visual languages in painting, performance, printmaking, and sculpture, and her work--much of it based in geometry--invited viewers to participate in the existential, sensorial, and psychological experience of her art. Presenting the first in-depth treatment of the experimental woodblock prints Pape made between 1952 and 1960, this volume examines the foundational role these works played in the rest of Pape's career, foreshadowing her philosophy of "magnetized space." Composed of overlapping geometric and linear elements that at times suggest atomic particles or slides of microscopic specimens, Pape's prints display an extraordinary depth accentuated by her use of incredibly thin, translucent Japanese papers. The artist applied the title Tecelares to these works decades after their creation. Loosely translated as "weavings," the term captures Pape's uniquely handmade approach to printmaking. Lavishly illustrated, this study is filled with revealing insights into how the artist's printmaking aesthetic, materials, and process embody her core ideas about art--Publisher's description.
- Contents:
- Foreword / James Rondeau -- A note from the projeto / Paula Pape -- Acknowledgments / Mark Pascale -- Play and precision : making the tecelares / Mark Pascale -- Gender and genre : Lygia Pape's self-fashioning in print / Adele Nelson -- Controlled anarchy : Lygia Pape and her materials / Maria Cristina Rivera Ramos.
- Bibliographic Note:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subjects:
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- Pape, Lygia - Exhibitions
- Pape, Lygia - Criticism and interpretation
- Pape, Lygia - Themes, motives
- Art, Brazilian - 20th century - Exhibitions
- Avant-garde (Aesthetics) - Brazil - 20th century - Exhibitions
- Art, Modern - 20th century - Exhibitions
- Concrete art - Brazil - Exhibitions
- Women artists - Brazil - 20th century - Exhibitions
- Art, Brazilian - 21st century - Exhibitions
- Women artists - Brazil - 21st century - Exhibitions
- Alternate Title:
- Tecelares.
- ISBN:
- 9780300269734 and 0300269730
- OCLC no:
- 1363816510
- Permanent Link
- https://library.ccs.bard.edu/catalog/1363816510