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Borderless Painting as Borderless Art: Antonio Dias Between Brazil and Europe Volume 9

Borderless Painting as Borderless Art: Antonio Dias Between Brazil and Europe Volume 9

Martins, Sérgio B.

Hardcover

Series: Studies on Latin American Art and Latinx Art

Art HistoryCaribbean, Latin American & South American ArtConceptual Art

ISBN10: 0520422481
ISBN13: 9780520422483
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Apr 7 2026
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.90
Height: 0.90 Width: 7.40 Depth: 9.20
Language: English
The artwork of Antonio Dias (1944-2018) uniquely captures the interwoven histories of Brazilian postwar realism and of European conceptualism in the 1960s and 1970s. By tracking Dias's ever-shifting works and circulation as he moved from Rio de Janeiro to Paris, and then to Milan, Borderless Painting as Borderless Art provides the first in-depth study of the artist.

Sérgio B. Martins uses Dias's trajectory as a lens to explore different approaches to avant-gardism and its crisis in Brazil, France, and northern Italy, weaving in the perspectives of figures such as Hélio Oiticica, Harald Szeemann, Pierre Restany, Giulio Paolini, and Tommaso Trini, as well as the Fluxus movement. The book ultimately argues that Dias pitted his formation in a semi-peripheral avant-garde against a post-avant-gardist milieu where commodity culture and market relations were far more pervasive and determinant vis-à-vis the arts scene.

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