Lygia Clark
The Abandonment of Art, 1948-1988
ed. by Cornelia H. Butler and Luis Pérez-Oramas ; with essays by Antonio Sergio Bessa, Frederico Coelho, Eleonora Fabiao ...[et al.]

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Author(s)

Antonio Sergio Bessa, Frederico Coelho, Eleonora Fabiao, ...[et al.]

Editor(s)

Cornelia H. Butler, Luis Pérez-Oramas

Publication, year

New York : The Museum of Modern Art, 2014

Scope

338 Pages, illustrated, 31 cm.

ISBN

9780870708909

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Lygia Clark (1920-1988) trained in Rio de Janeiro and Paris from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s. From the late 1960s through the 1970s she created a series of unconventional artworks in parallel to a lengthy psychoanalytic therapy, leading her to develop a series of therapeutic propositions grounded in art. Three sections of the book are based on key phases throughout her career--Abstraction, Neo-Concretism and The Abandonment of Art. They examine critical moments in Clark's production, anchor significant concepts or constellations of works that mark a definitive step in her work, and shed light on circumstances in her life as an artist.

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Person as subject

Lygia Clark

Location

Cabinet 2 - 1: Kunstenaars

Extra themes

Body and Architecture, Body and Space, Residents and the built environment ;

Remarks

Incl. bibliographical references and Index.