Eric M. Wolf
2006 marked the 25th anniversary of the death of Alfred H. Barr, Jr., founding director of the Museum of Modern Art. It was also the 70th anniversary of the important exhibition he curated, Cubism and Abstract Art, of 1936. Barr’s career was without rival in establishing the canon of modern art his achievement is still a major point of reference to all discussion of the art of modernism. This paper takes stock of his contribution a quarter century after his passing.
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Paulo Silveira
The book A página violada: da ternura à injúria na construção do livro de artista (The Violated Page: From Tenderness To Injury In The Construction Of The Artist’s Book) examines the artist’s book as a field of creation. The artist’s book is a category of the contemporary art, deliberately constructed from a pre-existent support, the book, its prototype, toward which it assumes a position of praise or critical counterpoint. Page and structure may be highly valued or pass through many possibilities of injury and objection, even acquiring the status of sculpture, abandoning an evident condition as book.
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