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The 1950s and early 1960s in Brazil gave birth to a period of incredible optimism and economic development. In The Affinity of Neoconcretism, Mariola V. Alvarez argues that the neoconcretists—a group of artists and poets working together in Rio de Janeiro from 1959 to 1961—formed an important part of this national transformation. She maps the interactions of the neoconcretists and discusses how this network collaborated to challenge existing divides between high and low art and between fields such as fine art and dance. This book reveals the way in which art and intellectual work in Brazil emerged from and within a local political and social context, and out of the transnational movements of artists, artworks, published materials, and ideas.

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9780520388963

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"""The Affinity of Neoconcretism not only skillfully translates very relevant passages of the Neoconcrete debates of the 1950s to English- speaking readers but also reframes the movement in ways that are bound to be relevant and instructive for scholars in Brazil too.""   * Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture *"

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Mariola V. Alvarez is Assistant Professor of Art History at Tyler School of Art and Architecture at Temple University. She is the coeditor of New Geographies of Abstract Art in Postwar Latin America.  

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