The conspiracy of modern art / by Luiz Renato Martins ; edited and introduced by Steve Edwards ; translated by Renato Rezende.
In 'The Conspiracy of Modern Art' the Brazilian critic and art-historian Luiz Renato Martins presents a new account of modern art from David to Abstract Expressionism. The once vibrant debate on these touchstones of modernism has gone stale. Viewed from the Sao Paulo megalopolis the art of...
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| Other title: | Essays. Selections. English |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Portuguese |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2017]
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| Series: | Historical materialism book series ;
137. |
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| Summary: | In 'The Conspiracy of Modern Art' the Brazilian critic and art-historian Luiz Renato Martins presents a new account of modern art from David to Abstract Expressionism. The once vibrant debate on these touchstones of modernism has gone stale. Viewed from the Sao Paulo megalopolis the art of Paris and New York - embodying Revolution, Thermidor, Bonapartistm and Bourgeois ?Triumph' - once more pulsates in tragic key. Equally attentive to form and politics, Martins invites us to look again at familiar pictures. In the process, modern art appears in a new light. These essays, largely unknown to an English-speaking audience, may be the most important contribution to the account of modern painting since the important debates of the 1980s. |
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| Item Description: | Translated from the Portuguese. |
| Physical Description: | xxi, 294 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9789004280045 9004280049 |