{"title":"Antonio Sergio Bessa","description":"\u003cp\u003eAntonio Sergio Bessa's works offer a profound exploration of contemporary art and culture, weaving insightful narratives that engage with visual arts' complex dialogues. His books delve into the intersections of creativity and critical thought, often illuminating the works of influential artists such as Gordon Matta-Clark.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders can expect a thoughtful examination of artistic movements and cultural phenomena, enriched by a sophisticated yet accessible style. Bessa's contributions stand out for their ability to contextualise avant-garde practices within broader cultural frameworks, making them essential reading for enthusiasts of modern arts and cultural theory.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"gordon-matta-clark-by-antonio-sergio-bessa-9780300230437","title":"Gordon Matta-Clark","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\"Undoing is just as much a democratic right as doing.\"—Gordon Matta-Clark\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis revealing book looks at the groundbreaking work of Gordon Matta-Clark (1943–1978), whose socially conscious practice blurred the boundaries between contemporary art and architecture. After completing a degree in architecture at Cornell University, Matta-Clark returned to his home city of New York. There he employed the term “anarchitecture,” combining “anarchy” and “architecture,” to describe the site-specific works he initially realised in the South Bronx.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe borough’s many abandoned buildings, the result of economic decline and middle-class flight, served as Matta-Clark’s raw material. His series \u003cem\u003eCuts\u003c\/em\u003e dissected these structures, performing an anatomical study of the ravaged urban landscape. Moving from New York to Paris with \u003cem\u003eConical Intersect\u003c\/em\u003e, a piece that became emblematic of artistic protest, Matta-Clark applied this same method to a pair of 17th-century row houses slated for demolition as a result of the Centre Pompidou’s construction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis compelling volume grounds Matta-Clark’s practice against the framework of architectural and urban history, stressing his pioneering activist-inspired approach, as well as his contribution to the nascent fields of social practice and relational aesthetics.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePublished in association with The Bronx Museum of the Arts\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eExhibition Schedule:\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBronx Museum of the Arts\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n(11\/08\/17-04\/08\/18)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJeu de Paume, Paris\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n(06\/04\/18-09\/23\/18)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKumu Kunstimuuseum, Tallinn, Estonia\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n(03\/01\/19-08\/04\/19)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRose Art Museum, Waltham, MA\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n(09\/12\/19-12\/15\/2019)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47460890116332,"sku":"9780300230437","price":89.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780300230437-gordon-matta-clark.jpg?v=1774954854"},{"product_id":"noigandres-by-antonio-sergio-bessa-9781531513689","title":"Noigandres","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eNoigandres\u003c\/i\u003e group was one of the key movements in Brazilian modernism. Bessa’s account works through the specific poetic innovations that are the hallmark of the concrete poetics the group developed. These include their unprecedented reevaluation of Brazilian literary history, their distinctive exploration of graphic space inspired by emerging studies on cybernetics, and their embrace of a range of Modernist traditions, from Mallarmé’s vision of poetry as a constellation of words, to Joyce’s concept of the \"verbivocovisual,\" to Pound’s writings about the Chinese ideogram.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBessa’s account begins with the core traits of concrete poetry developed by the \u003ci\u003eNoigandres\u003c\/i\u003e poets throughout the 1950s (the so-called \"heroic phase\" of concretism) and continues to the poetic experiments the group undertook after the military coup of 1964 in Brazil. The book concludes with translations of key primary texts: essays by the poets Augusto de Campos, Décio Pignatari and Haroldo de Campos and correspondence between the three poets and Ezra Pound.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47934157717740,"sku":"9781531513689","price":113.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781531513689-noigandres.jpg?v=1783900609"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/antonio-sergio-bessa.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}