Amadeo de Souza Cardoso At the Edge A Portuguese Futurist Exhibition Catalogue

Description: Amadeo de Souza Cardoso At the Edge A Portuguese Futurist Exhibition Catalogue Very good pre-owned condition. Pages are crisp and clean with no markings. Minimal wear on cover, corners and edges. Please see all photos. Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE A national cultural hero in Portugal and a pioneer of modernism, Amadeo de Souza Cardoso enjoyed a promising but tragically brief career. He settled in Paris as a student in 1906, immersing himself in the bohemian culture of the city while becoming friends with Amadeo Modigliani, Juan Gris, Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Diego Rivera, and Constantin Brancusi. In the company of these artists, Souza Cardoso developed a personal style that combined exuberant and fanciful color with the newly invented forms of cubism and futurism. He also played with abstracted and fragmented forms in his paintings, often using more than one point of view in a single picture. Throughout his career, Souza Cardoso maintained a strong connection to his native country, but he also incorporated into his art the avant-garde styles developing in Paris. In his highly imaginative and colorful work, he drew on both his Portuguese and Parisian experiences. He painted the mountainous landscapes of his native Marão in Montanhas (Mountains); the Catholic religious processions he witnessed near his home in Portugal in Procissão Corpus Christi (Corpus Christi Procession); abstract portraits of his friends such as Retrato de médico (Portrait of a Doctor) and still lifes that combined examples of Portuguese folk art with symbols of the Paris metropolis. With rhythmic, circular forms of floating color, Souza Cardoso also painted some of the earliest completely abstract pictures ever created such as Composição Abstracta—Étude B (Abstract Composition—Study B). At the Edge: A Portuguese Futurist—Amadeo de Souza Cardoso is a traveling exhibition organized by the Gabinete das Relações Internacionais, Ministério da Cultura, Portugal and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; in cooperation with the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão [CAMJAP], Lisbon and the Museu Sousa Cardoso, Amarante; and the Embassy of Portugal, Washington, D.C. It was at the Corcoran from 11 September–28 November 1999. A fully illustrated catalogue features essays by noted Portuguese experts, including Professor José-Augusto França of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, as well as American scholars Dr. Kenneth Silver of New York University, Rosemary O’Neill of the Parsons School of Design, and Laura Coyle, assistant curator at the Corcoran Gallery of Art. These essays discuss Souza Cardoso’s biography, his stylistic development, the context of his years in Paris, his friendship with Robert and Sonia Delaunay, his relationship with Walter Pach, his participation with the Armory Show, and the interest of American collectors in his work.

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