Borderless Painting as Borderless Art

Antonio Dias between Brazil and Europe
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-0-520-42248-3
Verlag: University of California Press

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Cloth Over Boards, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Studies on Latin American Art and Latinx Art

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Martins, Sérgio B.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert Konzeptkunst, Postmodernismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunststile
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Historische & Regionale Volkskunde

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction
1 Realism and Underdevelopment
2 Object and Environment
3 Painting and Project
4 Art and Commodity

Notes
Selected Bibliography
List of Illustrations
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sérgio B. Martins is Associate Professor of Art History in the History Department at Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro and author of Constructing an Avant-Garde: Art in Brazil, 1949–1979.