The Geometry of Hope: Latin American Abstract Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection

By Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro

Colorful and playful kinetic sculptures, experimental objects designed to be catalysts for community building, manifestos calling for joy and the negation of melancholy: these are the elements that have shaped The Geometry of Hope . The title of this richly illustrated, 340-page volume brings together two threads that epitomize postwar abstract art from Latin America: on the one hand, geometry, precision, clarity and reason; on the other, a utopian sense of hope. The book contains new scholarship by an international cast, with examinations of six key cities--Montevideo, Buenos Aires, S o Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Caracas and Paris--as well as insightful essays on individual works of art. It comes to us via the Cisneros Graduate Seminar, a collaborative program of the Blanton Museum in Austin, Texas, and the renowned Fundaci n Cisneros, and covers more than four decades of art-making with works by 52 artists, among them Lygia Clark, Gego, Jes s Rafael Soto and H lio Oiticica.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0977145360
• ISBN13: 9780977145362
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Blanton Museum of Art
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 3.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.5" x 1.0" x 9.8"