“…Abstract Art.…”

Table of Contents: “…Modernismo and the Break with Academic Art -- The Avant-garde of the 19020s -- Social, Ideological and, Nativist art -- Torres-Garcias constructive Universalism and the abstract lagacy -- New Museums, the Sao Paulo Biennial, and Abstract art -- Functionalism, Integration of the arts, and the postwar architectural boom -- Geometric, optical, and Kinetic art form the 1905s through the 1970s -- Concrete and neoconcrete art and their offshoots in the Brazilian context -- Neofiguration, representational art, pop, and environments -- Political art -- Some trends of the 1980s -- Notes -- Timeline -- Map -- Selected bibliography -- Index.…”