Can works of art be made from something other than "art"?

The cultural context of the 1950s and the debates on technical and material experimentation

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https://doi.org/10.36025/arj.v6i2.17924

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Concrete Art, Art History, Technical Art History, Brazilian vanguards

Abstract

The Laboratory of Conservation Science (LACICOR) – School of Fine Arte-UFMG – developed a project called “Concrete Art in Brazil: Industrialism and Vanguard of Latin America” in partnership with the Getty Foundation. This project sought to analyze works carried out in the 1950s from the collections of MAM-RJ, Pinacoteca-SP, MAP-BH, and Tuiuiú-RJ, in correspondence with the works of the Felps Cisneros Collection studied by the Getty Conservation Institute. Through the interface between the Technical Art History and the Art History, we produced a subsidized Conservation Science study of the works selected, promoting new conceptual relationships. This article explores experimentation as a process based on the issues raised by this research, considering the interface among the concept, the form and the materiality.

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Author Biographies

Yacy Ara Froner, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)

Graduated in History from the Federal University of Ouro Preto (1988), specialist in Conservation and Restoration (1992) from CECOR, Master in Social History from the University of São Paulo (1994), and PHD in Economic History, with an emphasis on cultural heritage, from the University of São Paulo (2001). Full Professor at the School of Fine Arts, Federal University of Minas Gerais. Researcher in the area of ??History of Collections, with an emphasis on the study of institutional memories; and in the area of ??Art History, with an emphasis on discussions about the intertwining of concept, form and materiality. She is currently researching Latin American critical theory.

Maria Alice Sanna Castello Branco, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)

Graduated in History from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (1981), specialist in Conservation and Restoration (2002) from CECOR, master in Visual Arts from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (2008) and PhD in Arts from the Graduate Program in Arts from the UFMG (2018). Assistant professor at the School of Fine Arts, Federal University of Minas Gerais. Currently, she develops studies on the construction technology of modern and contemporary works of art, discussing preservation protocols and curatorial concepts in the field of Conservation and Art History.

Luiz Antônio Cruz Souza, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG)

Graduated in Chemistry from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (1986), Master in Conservation Science from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (1991), with experimental work carried out at IRPA (Institut Royal du Patrimoine Artistique, Brussels, Belgium) and PhD in Chemistry from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (1996), with experimental work carried out at the Getty Conservation Institute, in Los Angeles, USA. Full professor at the School of Fine Arts, Federal University of Minas Gerais. He coordinates the Laboratory of Conservation Science (LACICOR) and he was responsible for the project “Concrete Art in Brazil: Industrialism and Vanguard of Latin America”, between 2015 and 2019.

 

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ARJ - Art Research Journal / Revista de Pesquisa em Artes; volume 6, número 2, 2019; capa

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20-05-2020

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FRONER, Y. A.; SANNA CASTELLO BRANCO, M. A.; CRUZ SOUZA, L. A. Can works of art be made from something other than "art"? The cultural context of the 1950s and the debates on technical and material experimentation. Art Research Journal: Revista de Pesquisa em Artes, [S. l.], v. 6, n. 2, 2020. DOI: 10.36025/arj.v6i2.17924. Disponível em: https://periodicos.ufrn.br/artresearchjournal/article/view/17924. Acesso em: 19 may. 2024.

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Vol. 6 No. 2 (2019): Multidisciplinary Perspectives in the Field of Art | Articles | Reviews

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Dossier: Multidisciplinary Perspectives in the Field of Art

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