Widely praised for its fine collection of Latin American geometric abstract art, the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros of Caracas, Venezuela, contains the compelling work of such leading artists as Uruguayan Joaquín Torres-Garcia, Brazilians Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica, Venezuelans Gego and Jésus Rafael Soto, and Argentinians Tomás Maldonado, Raúl Lozza, and Alfredo Hlito. This lavishly illustrated book presents a selection of more than eighty paintings, drawings, and sculptures from the Cisneros collection, representing some two dozen Latin American artists. The works were completed between 1934 and 1988, but the vast majority date from the “heroic” years of geometric abstraction, 1948–1966. This special bilingual volume explores in both English and Spanish the history and importance of the major movements that were dedicated to geometric abstraction. These movements include Concretism and Neo-Concretism in Brazil, Constructivism in Uruguay, the Madi Group and Concrete artists in Argentina, and Kinetic Abstraction and Neo-Constructivism in Venezuela. The book also offers biographies of the artists and an intriguing selection of their statements and manifestos.

Geometric Abstraction: Latin American Art from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection

Arts & Photography

Bois, Yve-Alain

Herkenhoff, Paulo

Jiménez, Ariel

Oramas, Luis Enrique Pérez

History & Criticism

Harvard Art Museums

Jesús Soto (19232005) was a Venezuelan painter and sculptor renowned for his kinetic artwork: from interactive metal and plastic sculptures to his dramatic architectural hangings. These fascinating interviews (presented in English and Spanish) were undertaken over the course of several years. They are published here for the first time, offering us an unprecedented opportunity to understand his remarkable contributions to Latin American art. Also revealed is an essential account of the key moments of a long and fruitful life, from his simple childhood to his key role in the development of kineticism in Paris in the 1950s and 60s. Reproduced throughout are important representative works from Soto’s career.

Conversations with Jesús Soto (Cisneros)

Other Distribution

As an art critic, political essayist, playwright and poet, Ferreira Gullar (born 1930) has been a key figure in the Brazilian cultural scene of the last 60 years. His extensive poetic output has been closely intertwined with his work as an art critic, from his first major collection of poems in 1954, through his Concrete and Neoconcrete poems from 1957 to 1959 and the “Neoconcrete Manifesto” and the “Theory of the Non-Object” of 1959. All are now essential reference texts in Brazilian and Latin American literature, deeply influencing generations of artists. This publication presents conversations conducted over the past two years between Gullar and art historian Ariel Jiménez. Gullar discusses everything from his childhood and early education in San Luis to his current writing, providing a full picture of this influential Brazilian poet and intellectual.

Ferreira Gullar in Conversation with Ariel Jiménez (FUNDACION CISNE)

Gullar, Ferreira

Humor & Entertainment

Fundación Cisneros/Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros

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