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Borderless Painting as Borderless Art
Antonio Dias between Brazil and Europe
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English
Published/Copyright:
2026
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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.
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.
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Contributor: Sérgio B. Martins
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.
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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Introduction
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1 Realism and Underdevelopment At
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2 Object and Environment
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3 Painting and Project
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4 Art and Commodity
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NOTES
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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
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LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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INDEX
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eBook published on:
April 7, 2026
eBook ISBN:
9780520422506
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9780520422506
Keywords for this book
Transnational art history; Latin American art; Arte Povera; modern art; cultural studies; museum studies
