Hélio Oiticica: Mapping the Constructive
2010; Routledge; Volume: 24; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/09528822.2010.491371
ISSN1475-5297
Autores Tópico(s)Memory, Trauma, and Testimony
ResumoAbstract This article explores the trajectory of Hélio Oiticica's commitment to the notion of the constructive, from his early career to the aftermath of his 1967 work Tropicália. It addresses Oiticica's particular way of dealing with the modernist legacy in the ever‐changing Brazilian cultural context, especially after the breakdown of the concretist and neoconcretist avant‐gardes in the early 1960s. The argument is staked on a side‐by‐side examination of works and writings by the artist, and the constructive is eventually understood as a conceptual threshold which the artist simultaneously retains and transforms, so as to account for the growing need to negotiate historical and ethico‐political demands within the context of the growing complexity of his work.
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