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How Brazilian postwar avant-garde artists updated modernism in a way that was radically at odds with European and North American art historical narratives. Brazilian avant-garde artists of the postwar era worked from a fundamental but productive out-of-jointness. They were modernist but distant from modernism. Europeans and North Americans may feel a similar displacement when viewing Brazilian avant-garde art; the unexpected familiarity of the works serves to make them unfamiliar. In Constructing an Avant-Garde, Sergio Martins seizes on this uncanny obliqueness and uses it as the basis for a reconfigured account of the history of Brazil's avant-garde. His discussion covers not only widely renowned artists and groups-including Helio Oiticica, Lygia Clark, Cildo Meireles, and neoconcretism-but also important artists and critics who are less well known outside Brazil, including Mario Pedrosa, Ferreira Gullar, Amilcar de Castro, Luis Sacilotto, Antonio Dias, and Rubens Gerchman. Martins argues that artists of Brazil's postwar avant-garde updated modernism in a way that was radically at odds with European and North American art historical narratives. He describes defining episodes in Brazil's postwar avant-garde, discussing crucial critical texts, including Gullar's Theory of the Non-Object, a phenomenological account of neoconcrete artworks; Oiticica, constructivity, and Mondrian; portraiture, self-portraiture, and identity; the nonvisual turn and missed encounters with conceptualism; and monochrome, manifestos, and engagement. The Brazilian avant-garde's hijacking of modernism, Martins shows, gained further complexity as artists began to face their international minimalist and conceptualist contemporaries in the 1960s and 1970s. Reconfiguring not only art history but their own history, Brazilian avant-gardists were able to face contemporary challenges from a unique-and oblique-standpoint.

Art, Brazilian --- Art, Brazilian. --- Arts --- Kunst. --- Experimental methods --- History --- Experimental methods. --- 1900-1999. --- Geschichte 1949-1979. --- Brasilien. --- Avant-garde --- Oiticica, Hélio --- Clark, Lygia --- Meireles, Cildo --- Brésil

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Art --- sculpture [visual works] --- installations [visual works] --- public art --- video art --- performance art --- Tellez, Javier --- Neto, Ernesto --- Zamora, Héctor --- Alvarado, Narda --- Cardoso, María Fernanda --- Conlon, Donna --- Galindo, Regina José --- Neuenschwander, Rivane --- Ochoa, Tomás --- Rios, Miguel Angel --- Rosenfeld, Lotty --- Wildi Merino, Ingrid --- Zink Yi, David --- Macchi, Jorge --- Allora and Calzadilla --- Meireles, Cildo --- Salcedo, Doris --- Alÿs, Francis --- Orozco, Gabriel --- Sierra, Santiago --- Latin America

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Sculpture --- utopias --- kleinsculptuur --- Vo, Danh --- Pisano, Falke --- Djordjadze, Thea --- Antunes, Leonor --- Hopf, Judith --- Phinthong, Pratchaya --- Gaba, Meschac --- Tayou, Pascale Marthine --- Friedman, Yona --- Andrade Tudela, Armando --- Arakawa, Ei --- Artaker, Anna --- Beloufa, Neïl --- BLESS --- Camnitzer, Luis --- Canell, Nina --- Coley, Nathan --- Farmer, Geoffrey --- Gambaroff, Nikolas --- Garaicoa, Carlos --- Grcic, Konstantin --- Yang, Haegue --- Hernández, Diango --- Issa, Iman --- Khedoori, Rachel --- Kolding, Jakob --- Leinhoss, Manuela --- Leisz, Anita --- Man, Victor --- Nasseri, Timo --- Sottsass, Ettore --- Richter, Vjenceslav --- Sapountzis, Yorgos --- Schultz, Nora --- Maiolino, Anna Maria --- Ponce de Léon, Rita --- Burga, Teresa --- Menna, Di, Michele --- Eichwald, Michaela --- Ensslin, Felix --- Moth, Charlotte --- Schulze-Fielitz, Eckhard --- Tuerlinckx, Joëlle --- Piscator, Erwin --- Meireles, Cildo --- Clark, Lygia --- Eichhorn, Maria --- Kingelez, Bodys Isek --- Bakic, Vojin --- Pernice, Manfred --- Genzken, Isa --- Melián, Michaela --- Jankowski, Christian --- Sone, Yutaka --- Haese, Günter --- Brandlhuber, Arno --- Jochen Schmith

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On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of do it, Hans Ulrich Obrist has collaborated with Independent Curators International (ICI) on its newest iteration, do it: the compendium (ICI and DAP, May 2013). The new publication will present the history of this landmark project and give new potential to its future. 

Adrian Piper orders audiences to hum a tune before entering a guarded room. Ben Kinmont wants us to invite a stranger into [our] home for breakfast. Alexandre Singh teaches us how to turn wine into soda. Yoko Ono encourages us to keep wishing. And Mircea Cantor demands we burn this book. ASAP, but John Armleder says to do None of the above. 

Along with a selection of instructions by 250 artists, 84 of which are newly published for the 20th anniversary, do it: the compendium will also include essays contextualizing do it; a new interview with Obrist; and documentation from past iterations, including exhibition images, texts, and interviews.


Art --- art [discipline] --- Contemporary [style of art] --- exhibition curators --- hedendaagse kunst --- Artists --- Feldmann, Hans-Peter --- Bacher, Lutz --- Marker, Chris --- Varda, Agnès --- Wurm, Erwin --- Shaw, Jim --- Neto, Ernesto --- Halprin, Anna --- Andre, Carl --- LeWitt, Sol --- Roy, Le, Xavier --- Vidokle, Anton --- Rutault, Claude --- Cixous, Hélène --- Bonillas, Iñaki --- Chung, Jay --- Stilinovic, Mladen --- Chan, Paul --- Mekas, Jonas --- Baruchello, Gianfranco --- Rooij, de, Willem --- Buren, Daniel --- Sehgal, Tino --- Lacy, Suzanne --- Paik, Nam June --- Saraceno, Tomás --- Gates, Theaster --- Faldbakken, Matias --- Garcia Torres, Mario --- Khan, Hassan --- Gill, Simryn --- Hamilton, Richard --- Elmgreen, Michael --- Dragset, Ingar --- Huang, Yong Ping --- Hybert, Fabrice --- Knowles, Alison --- Mari, Enzo --- Neuhaus, Max --- Ono, Yoko --- Parreno, Philippe --- Tayou, Pascale Marthine --- Wentworth, Richard --- Pak Sheung Chuen --- Friedman, Yona --- Adnan, Etel --- Arcangel, Cory --- Ashley, Robert --- Atoui, Tarek --- Bader, Darren --- Baghramian, Nairy --- Beom, Kim --- Brătescu, Geta --- Brossa, Joan --- Cantor, Mircea --- Cao Fei --- Caro, Antonio --- Chu Yun --- Cranston, Meg --- Rijke, de, Jeroen --- Diaz, Wilson --- Feng Mengbo --- Pistoletto, Michelangelo --- Manders, Mark --- Forti, Simone --- Friðfinnsson, Hreinn --- Fujiwara, Simon --- Morris, Robert --- Gette, Paul-Armand --- Bourgeois, Louise --- Grcic, Konstantin --- Grossarth, Ulrike --- Gu Dexin --- Guilleminot, Marie-Ange --- Gupta, Shilpa --- Geys, Jef --- Harsha, N.S. --- Herrero, Federico --- Hincapie, Maria Teresa --- Hiorns, Roger --- Hlobo, Nicholas --- Horowitz, Jonathan --- Hu Fang --- Kaltenbach, Stephen James --- Kinmont, Ben --- Koblin, Aaron --- Koh, Terence --- Koller, Július --- Koo Jeong-a --- Spero, Nancy --- Lara, Adriana --- Lidén, Klara --- Weiner, Lawrence --- Liu Ding --- Liu Wei --- Abramovic, Marina --- López, Aníbal --- Lozano, Lee --- Lu Chunsheng --- Madison, Tobias --- Marisaldi, Eva --- Marten, Helen --- Monastyrsky, Andrei --- Mréjen, Valérie --- Neuenschwander, Rivane --- Onur, Füsun --- Ortega, Damián --- Palestine, Charlemagne --- Panayiotou, Christodoulos --- Pape, Lygia --- Paris, Nicolas --- Pica, Amalia --- Pietroiusti, Cesare --- Price, Cedric --- Reas, Casey --- Reed, David --- Reyes, Pedro --- Robbins, David --- Saville, Peter --- Sharif, Hassan --- Shimabuku, Michihiro --- Singh, Alexandre --- Suter, Hugo --- Tone, Yasunao --- Trecartin, Ryan --- Varela, Francisco J. --- Boltanski, Christian --- Villar Rojas, Adrián --- Vonna-Michell, Tris --- Wa Lehulere, Kemang --- Wang Jianwei --- Kabakov, Ilija Iosefovich --- Wolman, Gil Joseph --- Xu Tan --- Xu Zhen --- Yang Fudong --- Zheng Guo Gu --- Al Maria, Sophia --- Andrews, Kathryn --- Aran, Uri --- Atkins, Ed --- Bibby, Gerry --- Cohen, Amy E. --- Hite, Shere --- Lippard, Lucy R. --- Lommée, Thomas --- Myles, Eileen --- Nordby, Anders --- Owens, Clifford --- Salamon, Eszter --- Sasselov, Dimitar --- Sheldrake, Rupert --- Sierra, Gabriel --- Sterling, Bruce --- Weinberger, Hannah --- Bel, Jérôme --- Wang, Wei --- West, Franz --- Macchi, Jorge --- Allora and Calzadilla --- Claire Fontaine --- Hatoum, Mona --- Nancy, Jean-Luc --- Forsythe, William --- McCarthy, Paul --- Jonas, Joan --- Kelley, Mike --- Schütte, Thomas --- Durham, Jimmie --- Ruscha, Ed --- Glissant, Edouard --- Graham, Dan --- Meireles, Cildo --- Cattelan, Maurizio --- Messager, Annette --- Eliasson, Olafur --- Walther, Franz Erhard --- Armleder, John M. --- Barney, Matthew --- Birnbaum, Dara --- Bochner, Mel --- Coupland, Douglas --- Chamberlain, John --- Clark, Lygia --- Dean, Tacita --- Eichhorn, Maria --- Emin, Tracey --- Fischli, Peter --- Gilbert and George --- Gillick, Liam --- Graham, Rodney --- Hirst, Damien --- Lucas, Sarah --- Nauman, Bruce --- Rhoades, Jason --- Rist, Pipilotti --- Rondinone, Ugo --- Sala, Anri --- Slominski, Andreas --- Tiravanija, Rirkrit --- Weiss, David --- Trockel, Rosemarie --- Höller, Carsten --- Bock, John --- Rosler, Martha --- Obrist, Hans Ulrich --- Huyghe, Pierre --- Iglesias, Cristina --- Sarmento, Julião --- Althamer, Paweł --- Askevold, David --- Baldessari, John --- Barry, Robert --- Caldas, Waltércio --- Erkmen, Ayşe --- Golub, Leon Albert --- Hill, Anthony --- Lamelas, David --- Lieshout, van, Erik --- Marclay, Christian --- Miller, John --- Muehl, Otto --- Oehlen, Albert --- Peljhan, Marko --- Potrč, Marjetica --- Rehberger, Tobias --- Schmit, Tomas --- Smith, Michael --- Sturtevant, Elaine --- Williams, Emmett --- Kusolwong, Surasi --- Evans, Cerith Wyn --- Gonzalez-Foerster, Dominique --- Grigely, Joseph --- Ondàk, Roman --- Cuevas, Minerva --- Metzel, Olaf --- Donnelly, Trisha --- Barrada, Yto --- Kolář, Jiří --- Kjartansson, Ragnar --- Ai Weiwei --- Piper, Adrian --- Sejima, Kazuyo --- Lavier, Bertrand --- Lynch, David --- Narkevičius, Deimantas --- Kaprow, Allan --- Charmatz, Boris --- Raqs Media Collective [New Delhi] --- Critical Art Ensemble --- Diller Scofidio + Renfro [New York, N.Y.] --- anno 1990-1999 --- anno 2000-2009