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Mira Schendel / edited by Tanya Barson and Taisa Palhares.

Contributor(s): Publisher: London : Tate Publishing ; Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, 2013Description: 256 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 27 cmContent type:
  • text
  • still image
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781849760904
Subject(s):
Contents:
Note: Living in between: Mira Schendel's Poetics / Taisa Palhares -- Mira Schendel, Signals London and the Language of Movement / Tanya Barson -- Mira Schendel in Dialogue with Vilem Flusser: Language and Reality / Caue Alves -- The Other World Is This: Mira Schendel's Participation in the 10th Bienal de São Paulo, 1969 / Isobel Whitelegg -- Mira Schendel's Immanence / John Rajchman -- Works -- Mira Schendel Statement -- Interview with Mira Schendel Mira Schendel, Painter: Empty Space Moves Me Deeply / Jorge Guinle -- Interview with Haroldo de Campos / Sonia Salzstein.
Summary: Born Myrrha Dagmar Dub (1919), in Switzerland, Mira Schendel studied art and philosophy in Italy during the 1930s before eventually emmigrating to Brazil in 1949, where she made the majority of her life's work - painting, drawing, graphic design and sculpture. Participating in the first Sao Paulo Biennial in 1951, Schendel soon found herself among the intellectual elite and began to show her work frequently. Her early paintings, in dense tones and textured surfaces, stood apart from the prevailing Concretist movement and suggested dissatisfaction with pictorial means. Her work is characterised by a variation in materials, from plaited and twisted rice paper, to acrylic paintings, to black and white temperas, and a series of paintings using brick dust. This volume looks at her work.
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Book Book CGLAS Library Monographs Room SCH (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 00906

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Mira Schendel, held at Tate Modern, London, 25 September 2013-19 January 2014, Fundação de Serralves - Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto, 28 February-24 June 2014, and Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, 24 July-19 October 2014.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-241).

Note: Living in between: Mira Schendel's Poetics / Taisa Palhares -- Mira Schendel, Signals London and the Language of Movement / Tanya Barson -- Mira Schendel in Dialogue with Vilem Flusser: Language and Reality / Caue Alves -- The Other World Is This: Mira Schendel's Participation in the 10th Bienal de São Paulo, 1969 / Isobel Whitelegg -- Mira Schendel's Immanence / John Rajchman -- Works -- Mira Schendel Statement -- Interview with Mira Schendel Mira Schendel, Painter: Empty Space Moves Me Deeply / Jorge Guinle -- Interview with Haroldo de Campos / Sonia Salzstein.

Born Myrrha Dagmar Dub (1919), in Switzerland, Mira Schendel studied art and philosophy in Italy during the 1930s before eventually emmigrating to Brazil in 1949, where she made the majority of her life's work - painting, drawing, graphic design and sculpture. Participating in the first Sao Paulo Biennial in 1951, Schendel soon found herself among the intellectual elite and began to show her work frequently. Her early paintings, in dense tones and textured surfaces, stood apart from the prevailing Concretist movement and suggested dissatisfaction with pictorial means. Her work is characterised by a variation in materials, from plaited and twisted rice paper, to acrylic paintings, to black and white temperas, and a series of paintings using brick dust. This volume looks at her work.