Art and Life in Brazilian Neoconcretism

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https://doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_7-1_3

Keywords:

Ferreira Gullar, Lygia Pape, neoconcretism, life, intermediality

Abstract

At the end of the 1950s, art appropriated the statement about a new artificial conception of life, and thus produced a reconfiguration of the relationship between art and life. In order to think about this reconfiguration, this article focuses on the analysis of the Ballet Neoconcreto (1958) by Lygia Pape, and the Poema Enterrado (1959) by Ferreira Gullar. These are works that, from the limits of language (the plastic arts and ballet in the first case, poetry and architecture in the second), introduce the question about the relationships between art and life and, in addition, the possible inscriptions of the body in art beyond human representation. This article will address these objects arguing that both sought to introduce life into art, through the conversion of living matter into aesthetic matter.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_7-1_3

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Published

2019-11-17

How to Cite

Kogan, Adriana. 2019. “Art and Life in Brazilian Neoconcretism”. MATLIT: Materialities of Literature 7 (1):45-57. https://doi.org/10.14195/2182-8830_7-1_3.

Issue

Vol. 7 No. 1 (2019): Experimental Poetry Networks: Material Circulations

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Secção Temática | Thematic Section

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