"In addition to an extensive record of the works in exhibition, this publication includes abundant historical images, representing a visual promenade of the artists' long and successful careers."
"One of the last century's most influential artists, Yves Klein (1928-1962) took the European art scene by storm in a prolific career that lasted only from 1954 to 1962, when he suffered a heart attack at the age of 34. Klein was an innovator who embraced painting, sculpture, performance, photography, music, theater, film, architecture and theoretical writing. Self-identified as "the painter of space," Klein sought to achieve immaterial ..."
Immanent Vitalities(First Edition) Meaning and Materiality in Modern and Contemporary Art (Volume 4) (Studies on Latin American Art) by Kaira Marie Cabañas, Kaira M. Cabanas Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2021 by University Of California Press, United States ISBN-13: 978-0-520-35622-1, ISBN: 0-520-35622-5
"Ferreira Gullar, for example, remembers reading it before he moved to Rio.
Ferreira Gullar, “A trégua—Entrevista com Ferreira Gullar,” in Ferreira Gullar,
series: Cadernos da literatura brasileira, no. 6 (São Paulo: Instituto Moreira
Salles, 1998), ..."
Learning from Madness(1st Edition) Brazilian Modernism and Global Contemporary Art by Kaira Marie Cabañas, Kaira M. Cabanas Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2018 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-55628-4, ISBN: 0-226-55628-X
"Throughout the history of European modernism, philosophers and artists have been fascinated by madness. Something different happened in Brazil, however, with the “art of the insane” that flourished within the modernist movements there. From the 1920s to the 1960s, the direction and creation of art by the mentally ill was actively encouraged by prominent figures in both medicine and art criticism, which led to a much wider appreciation a ..."
Artaud the Moma (Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts) by Jacques Derrida, Peggy Kamuf, Kaira M. Cabañas Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2017 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-18167-9, ISBN: 0-231-18167-1
Learning from Madness Brazilian Modernism and Global Contemporary Art by Kaira M. Cabañas 240 Pages, Published 2018 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-55631-4, ISBN: 0-226-55631-X
"102. exh. cat., by Jane de Almeida and Jorge Anthonio e Silva (São Paulo:
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, 2003), 94. Farias still claims the importance of
analyzing Bispo's work “in light of other contemporary production” at the same
time that ..."
Off-Screen Cinema Isidore Isou and the Lettrist Avant-Garde by Kaira M. Cabañas 192 Pages, Published 2015 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-17462-4, ISBN: 0-226-17462-X
"Over the course of the 1960s, Situationist film theory was increasingly aligned
with the political stakes of writing. ... For the French original, see Viénet, “Les
situationnistes et les nouvelles formes d'action contre la politique et l'art,”
Internationale ... unveils an image's ideological meaning (recall the newsreel
sequence that concludes with Eisenhower embraced by Franco). ... Among the
works Rancière discusses are Alfredo ..."
"This monograph is a compendium of Lothar Baumgarten’s work and artistic thinking. The various essential aspects of his work, such as language, architecture, photography and history are highlighted in four essays. A current interview with the artist, conducted by Christian Rattemeyer, a biography of his work and a well-informed introduction by co-editor Kaira Cabañas make this publication the first seminal book on Lothar Baumgarten. As w ..."
"A handsome monograph on beloved self-taught Brazilian artist Djanira da Motta e Silva, whose paintings depict religious themes and everyday life in BrazilLargely self-taught and coming from a working-class background, Djanira da Motta e Silva (1914–79) emerged on the Brazilian art scene in the 1940s, working in paint, woodcut and engraving to depict everyday life in Brazil, often with religious overtones. Although she developed a prolif ..."
"One of the last century's most influential artists, Yves Klein (1928-1962) took the European art scene by storm in a prolific career that lasted only from 1954 to 1962, when he suffered a heart attack at the age of 34. Klein was an innovator who embraced painting, sculpture, performance, photography, music, theater, film, architecture and theoretical writing. Self-identified as "the painter of space," Klein sought to achieve immaterial ..."
"Des artistes doués du plus vif appétit pour les images - toutes les images - glanées dans la presse, les bandes dessinées, les films...avec une curiosité dévorante pour tous les débats idéologiques et politiques de la décennie... ..."
"Found objects, ripped posters, radical collages: as part of the New Realism movement of the early 1960s, Jacques Villeglé's work directly influenced his contemporaries, in particular, New York Pop artists Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein. By using everyday objects, the New Realists sought new forms of artistic expression and called into question the role of the artist and the nature of art itself. Villeglé's work with posters that he f ..."
"The title of this book, "Autofocus Retina" means a configuration of four diamond shaped mirrors connoting the inner mechanics of a camera lens: the photographic eye. Lothar Baumgarten (b. Germany 1944, living and working in Berlin/New York) presents a personal selection of photographs, sculpture, drawings and film, from the late 1960s to the present day. The book follows the creative trajectory of an artist who does not comply with the ..."
"This publication offers an extensive overview of the work and life of Jean Tinguely, the Swiss artist who was instrumental in the development of kinetic art. While Tinguely's mechanical metal sculptures may seem witty and playful, their charming absurdity has a dark side: he contrasts play, pleasure and irony with aggression, self-destruction and a fear of death in an engaging and compelling oeuvre. In contrast to the canonic Tinguely d ..."
Off-Screen Cinema Isidore Isou and the Lettrist Avant-Garde (Hardback) by Kaira Marie Cabanas, Kaira M. Cabañas Hardcover, 192 Pages, Published 2015 by University Of Chicago Press ISBN-13: 978-0-226-17445-7, ISBN: 0-226-17445-X
Artaud the Moma (Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts) by Jacques Derrida, Peggy Kamuf, Kaira M. Cabañas Hardcover, 112 Pages, Published 2017 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-18166-2, ISBN: 0-231-18166-3
Roberto Obregon Accumulate, Classify, Preserve, Display: Archive of the Collection Carolina and Fernando Eseverri (Hardback) by Jesús Fuenmayor, Kaira M. Cabañas Paperback, Published 2021 by Turner Publicaciones S. L. ISBN-13: 978-84-18428-64-7, ISBN: 84-18428-64-3