HÃ©lio Oiticica and Neville d'Almeida Block-Experiments in Cosmococa - Program in Progress

Name: HÃ©lio Oiticica and Neville d'Almeida Block-Experiments in Cosmococa - Program in Progress
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ISBN: 9781846380969

ISBN-10: 1846380960

ISBN-13: 9781846380969

Edition: 2013

Authors: Sabeth Buchmann, Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz

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Hélio Oiticica (1937--1980) occupies a central position in the Latin Americanavant-garde of the postwar era. Associated with the Rio de Janeiro-based neo-concretist movement atthe beginning of his career, Oiticica moved from object production to the creation of chromaticallyopulent and sensually engulfing large-scale installations or wearable garments. Building on the ideafor a film by Brazilian underground filmmaker Neville D'Almeida, Oiticica developed the concept forBlock-Experiments in Cosmococa -- Program in Progress (1973--1974) as an "open program": aseries of nine proposals for environments, each consisting of slide projections, soundtracks,leisure facilities, drawings (with cocaine…

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Afterall Publishing
Publication date: 2/12/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 120
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Sabeth Buchmann, an art historian and critic, is Professor of Modern and Postmodern Art and Head of the Institute for Art Theory and Cultural Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

Max Jorge Hinderer Cruz is a writer, translator, and cultural critic specializing in LatinAmerican studies and materialist aesthetics.