Review: The Affinity of Neoconcretism: Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Brazilian Modernism, 1954–1964, by Mariola V. Alvarez

Book Review| April 01 2024 Review: The Affinity of Neoconcretism: Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Brazilian Modernism, 1954–1964, by Mariola V. Alvarez The Affinity of Neoconcretism: Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Brazilian Modernism, 1954–1964, by Mariola V. Alvarez. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. 304 pages. Hardcover 50. 00. Sérgio B. Martins Sérgio B. Martins Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture (2024) 6 (2): 163–164. https: //doi. org/10. 1525/lavc. 2024. 6. 2. 163 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures Review: The Affinity of Neoconcretism: Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Brazilian Modernism, 1954–1964, by Mariola V. Alvarez. Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture 1 April 2024; 6 (2): 163–164. doi: https: //doi. org/10. 1525/lavc. 2024. 6. 2. 163 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentLatin American and Latinx Visual Culture Search Neoconcretism, perhaps the best-known avant-garde movement in twentieth-century Brazil, has never been the subject of an academic monograph, either within Brazil or internationally. Ronaldo Brito's Neoconcretismo: vértice e ruptura do projeto construtivo brasileiro, from 1985, does not quite fit the bill: it was actually a journal essay written by a young and self-educated critic in 1975, later published in book form. However, since the movement's sixtieth anniversary in 2019, three new books have emerged to address this lack: Pauline Bachmann's Pure Leiblichkeit: Brasiliens Neokonkretismus (1957–1967) published in Germany in 2019; Flavio Moura's Obra em construção: o Neoconcretismo e a arte contemporânea no Brasil, published in Brazil in 2021; and now Alvarez's The Affinity of Neoconcretism. The literature gap is surprisingly unsurprising, for the movement's robust critical fortune contrasts with its relatively loose coherence throughout its two-year lifespan from 1959 to 1961. As brilliant as it is, poet. . . You do not currently have access to this content.