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Paulo Bruscky: Poesia Viva
Edited by Antonio Sergio Bessa, Paulo Bruscky. Text by Antonio Sergio Bessa.
Paulo Bruscky: Poesia Viva explores the poetic grounding of the oeuvre of Brazilian conceptual artist Paulo Bruscky (born 1949). Bruscky, long considered a pioneer in mail art and Xerox art, has always stated that "poeisis" is at the core of his extremely diverse practice. A rebel poet of sorts, he has continuously sought to question the status quo through his art—a thoroughly political aspiration during years of military dictatorship. Through a unique selection of Bruscky’s works, carefully chosen by editor Antonio Sergio Bessa and the artist, this volume shows the poetic basis of Bruscky’s longstanding interests in the metalinguistic and the performative, and explores Bruscky’s artistic debt to concrete poetry, and more specifically to the experimental work of the Brazilian Poema/Processo movement and the Poesia Práxis group. Paulo Bruscky: Poesia Viva investigates the poetic process and sensibility across five decades of Bruscky’s work.
FORMAT: Hbk, 6.25 x 9.00 in. / 248 pgs / 147 color / 5 b&w. LIST PRICE: U.S. $40.00 LIST PRICE: CANADA $54 GBP £35.00 ISBN: 9788540509405 PUBLISHER: APC/Cosac Naify AVAILABLE: 6/14/2016 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Out of stock indefinitely AVAILABILITY: Not available TERRITORY: WORLD
Published by APC/Cosac Naify. Edited by Antonio Sergio Bessa, Paulo Bruscky. Text by Antonio Sergio Bessa.
Paulo Bruscky: Poesia Viva explores the poetic grounding of the oeuvre of Brazilian conceptual artist Paulo Bruscky (born 1949). Bruscky, long considered a pioneer in mail art and Xerox art, has always stated that "poeisis" is at the core of his extremely diverse practice. A rebel poet of sorts, he has continuously sought to question the status quo through his art—a thoroughly political aspiration during years of military dictatorship. Through a unique selection of Bruscky’s works, carefully chosen by editor Antonio Sergio Bessa and the artist, this volume shows the poetic basis of Bruscky’s longstanding interests in the metalinguistic and the performative, and explores Bruscky’s artistic debt to concrete poetry, and more specifically to the experimental work of the Brazilian Poema/Processo movement and the Poesia Práxis group. Paulo Bruscky: Poesia Viva investigates the poetic process and sensibility across five decades of Bruscky’s work.
