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Avant-garde

Antropofagia

Concretism, Concrete poetry (1950s)

Poesia-práxis (1960s)

Neoconcretism

Artists

Grupo Neoconcreto (1959-61): Lygia Clark, Hélio Oiticica, Amílcar de Castro, Lygia Pape, Franz Weissmann, Ferreira Gullar.

Writings
  • Ferreira Gullar, "1ª Exposição Neoconcreta", Jornal do Brasil / Suplemento Dominical, Rio de Janeiro, 14 Mar 1959, pp 4-5. [1]
  • "Manifesto Neoconcreto", Jornal do Brasil / Suplemento Dominical, Rio de Janeiro, 21 Mar 1959, pp 4-5. Signed by Amílcar de Castro, Ferreira Gullar, Franz Weissmann, Lygia Clark, Lygia Pape, Reynaldo Jardim, and Theon Spanudis. [2] (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • Ferreira Gullar, "Teoria do não-objeto", Jornal do Brasil / Suplemento Dominical, Rio de Janeiro, 19-20 Dec 1959, p 1; repr. in Projeto Construtivo Brasileiro na Arte: 1950-1962, ed. Aracy A. Amaral, São Paulo: Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro: MAM-RJ, 1977, pp 85-94. Published as a key contribution to the II Exposição Neoconcreta held in Rio de Janeiro in 1960. [3] [4] [5] (Brazilian Portuguese)
    • "Theory of the Non-object", in The Object, ed. Antony Hudek, London: Whitechapel, 2014, p 120ff. (English)
  • Lygia Clark, Hélio Oiticica, Cartas, 1964-1974, ed. & intro. Luciano Figueiredo, Rio de Janeiro: UFRJ, 1996; 2nd ed., 1998, 264 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • Hélio Oiticica, "The Senses Pointing Toward a New Transformation" [1969], ARTMargins 7:2, Jun 2018, pp 129-135. With an introduction by Jo Melvin and Luke Skrebowski. Written between 18-25 June 1969 in London and submitted to the British art magazine Studio International, but never appeared in print. The essay negotiates art after objecthood and contextualises Oiticica's project to effect a definitive radicalization of anti-art.
  • Ferreira Gullar, Experiência neoconcreta: momento-limite da arte, eds. Augusto Massi and Julia Bussius, São Paulo: Cosac Naify, 2007, 164 pp. (Brazilian Portuguese)
Catalogues
  • Lygia Clark, Rio de Janeiro: Funarto, 1980, 60 pp. With texts by Ferreira Gullar, Mário Pedrosa, and Lygia Clark. (Brazilian Portuguese)
Literature

Arte cinética, Kinetic art

Tropicália (Tropicalismo)

Computer art

Mail art

Video art

  • Elena Shtromberg, "Bodies in Peril: Enacting Censorship in Early Brazilian Video Art (1974-1978)", in Aesthetics of Risk: SoCCAS Symposium Vol. III, ed. John C. Welchman, Zürich: JRP Ringier, 2008. [8]

New media art, Media culture

Media theory

See also