[SÃO PAULO | BRAZIL]
ARTS AND CULTURE
mira schendel – from the
spiritual to the corporeal
león ferrari:
retrospective works
texts Geraldo Souza Dias
1954-2006
Andrea Giunta (ed.)
texts Aracy Amaral, Regina
Teixeira de Barros, Luiz Canitzer,
León Ferrari and Beatriz Sarlo
When the major show Mira Schendel and León Ferrari opens at
MoMA, in April 2009, part of the international art establishment
will be introduced to two artists who, though born outside Brazil,
revolutionized the art of this country. Mira Schendel – From the
spiritual to the corporeal, by Geraldo Souza Dias, is so far the most
comprehensive work to date on this Swiss-born artist who spent
most of her life in Brazil. With 210 exquisite reproductions of works
by Schendel (1919-88), some of them new to the public, the book
required ten years of research of the author Geraldo Souza Dias and
blends an original analysis of Mira Schendel’s artistic universe with a
rich presentation of her biography. Dias interviewed key figures who
exercised much influence on her writings and work. Among other
aspects, the essay brings out the relevance of religion and philosophy
to her art. The work of the Argentinean artist León Ferrari (1920)
has already been thoroughly covered in the monograph León Ferrari:
retrospective works – 1954-2006, published by Cosac Naify in 2007.
sponsored by oi
hardcover
347 pages | 210 illustrations
27.8 x 23 cm | 1.85 kg
isbn 978-8575-03602-0
publication oct. 2008
rights available
paperback
464 pages | 353 illustrations
23 x 26 cm | 2.5 kg
isbn 85-7503-559-2
tropicália: a revolution
in brazilian culture
calder in brazil:
a tale of friendship
Carlos Basualdo (ed.)
Roberta Saraiva (org.)
texts Ivana Bentes, Christopher Dunn,
Celso Favaretto, Flora Süssekind and
Hermano Vianna
texts Jean-Paul Sartre, Fernand Léger,
Mário Pedrosa, Henrique Mindlin, Rubem
Braga, Carlos Drummond de Andrade,
Sergio Milliet and Ferreira Gullar
More than just a catalogue for the
homonymous exhibition held at the
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,
and set for international itinerancy
(London, Berlin, New York City), this
book presents a comprehensive
overview of Brazilian culture from
1967 to 1972, encompassing the visual
arts, music, film, architecture, theatre,
graphic design and fashion. It also
highlights the impact of two of its main
mentors, i.e., the artist Helio Oiticica,
whose homonymous work coined the
movement’s name and that is now at
the Tate Modern, and the musician
Caetano Veloso. Carlos Basualdo’s
careful selection of historical texts,
photographs and essays draws a vivid
portrait of this rich period.
One of the most important artists of
the 20th century, Alexander Calder had
a deep and decisive relationship with
Brazil. He made several visits to the
country, during which he established a
fruitful exchange with Brazilian artists.
His exhibitions in the Rio de Janeiro
and the São Paulo Museums of Modern
Art played a major role in Brazil’s
modernism. The book portraits these
friendships through texts by critics,
artists and friends, whilst also shows
the exhibitions Calder held in Brazil
and works he produced in the country,
such as sculptures for Brasilia, and the
mobile Viúva Negra, which he gifted to
the Instituto Brasileiro de Arquitetura in
São Paulo.
paperback
376 pages | 216 illustrations
28 x 21 cm | 2 kg
isbn 85-7503-461-8
english and portuguese editions
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flex bound
288 pages
23.5 x 28 cm | 0.7 kg
isbn 85-7503-550-9
english and portuguese editions
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maría freire
text Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro
neo-concretism: vertex and
rupture of the brazilian
constructive project
The book shows ive decades of
production by the Uruguayan artist,
who is also considered the other facet
to Torres-García’s constructivism, the
most respected visual art movement
in Latin-American. The artist worked
for two years with the Argentinean
correspondent group Madí, and, in 1953,
she also exhibited at the ii São Paulo
Biennial. Freire position emphasized the
apolitical character of the Uruguayan
constructivism, which investigated more
the metaphysical, as opposed to its
Brazilian and Argentinean counterparts,
whose works were under great
political spell.
With extreme acuity, the art historian
and professor Ronaldo Brito surveys
the various international trends of
constructivism in the 20th century,
and fosters Brazil’s uniqueness
neoconcrete movement in the 1960.
Illustrated with major works of leading
artists such as Lygia Pape, Helio
Oiticica, Lygia Clark amongst others.
This book first published in 1980
became a vital reference in studies of
the Brazil’s culture.
hardcover
152 pages | with illustrations
28.5 x 24.5 cm | 1.37 kg
isbn 85-86374-91-1
also available bilingual edition
(spanish | english)
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paperback
112 pages; 107 illustrations;
23 x 28 cm; 0.77 kg;
isbn 978-85-8637-443-2
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neoconcrete experience:
limit-moment of art
text Ferreira Gullar
text Ferreira Gullar
In 1959, Ferreira Gullar wrote the
Neoconcrete Manifesto with the
support of the artists Amilcar de Castro,
Lygia Pape, Lygia Clark. Past almost
50 years, the foremost poet and critic
gives his inedited testimony on one of
the most radical moments of Brazilian
art. From the inside of the Neoconcrete
movement, Gullar defined important
concepts, such as the “no-object” Gullar
traces his own path as a Neoconcrete
poet, with the creation of the poembooks, the space poems and the
outrageous experince of the “Buried
poem” (the first poem in history with a
physical address). The book brings also
a selection of texts by Gullar, includes
three poem-books and a facsimile
of the First Neocroncrete exhibition
catalogue.
This collection of writings on the
visual arts brings together fifty years
of critical thinking by Ferreira Gullar,
one of Brazil’s greatest poets and
critics. In these 48 short essays and
poems, Gullar’s attention wanders
from Michelangelo and Leonardo to
such Brazilian modern masters as
Oswaldo Goeldi, Iberê Camargo, and
Franz Weissmann. Always sharp and
precise, sometimes stinging, Gullar’s
“lightning bolts” inaugurate a new genre
of critical writing on the arts, in which
the experience of seeing imposes itself
upon theoretical preconceptions.
text Ronaldo Brito
sponsored by banco bbm through the brazilian
ministry of culture
relâmpagos – dizer o ver
[lightning – to say the seeing]
‚ selected
by the american institute of graphic
arts (aiga) as one of the 50 books | 50 covers
of 2007
paperback with case
164 pages; 20 illustrations;
20.5 x 20.5 cm cm; 0.55 kg;
isbn 978-85-7503-640-2
bilingual edition (portuguese | english)
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hardcover
176 pages | 76 illustrations
23 x 16 cm | 0.63 kg
isbn 85-75031600
english and portuguese editions
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rosângela rennó – the universal archive
and other archives
texts Adriano Pedrosa and
Maria Angélica Melendi
Rosângela Rennó is amongst the most
celebrated Brazilian contemporary
artists. Her work features today in
the main national and international
museums, private collections and
art surveys. Rennó’s work evolves
around the realm of the collective
unconsciousness, as the title of
her exhibition, homonymous to this
publication, The Universal Archive and
Other Archives, hints. The artist also
worked directly on the book’s concept
and manufacture, which makes it an
authentic work of art.
sponsored by centro cultural banco do
brasil – ccbb through the brazilian ministry
of culture
hardcover
392 pages | 320 illustrations
26 x 18.5 cm | 2 kg
isbn 85-7503-230-5
bilingual edition (portuguese | english)
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popular science manual
barroco de lírios
concept Waltercio Caldas
text Paulo Venancio Filho
concept and text Tunga
Books have always been part of the
work of Waltercio Caldas, one of the
most distinguished Brazilian artists.
Popular Science Manual, now available
in a new revised and expanded edition,
reaffirms its importance 25 years
after it was first published. The new
version includes works that were
not featured in the first edition. By
assembling work of art with photograph
the book moves freely through both
languages, causing several common
objects to present layers of aesthetic
meanings that permeate the poetry of
the artist. Texts following the images
provide a continuous circularity among
themselves, in a reflexive record with
balanced doses of irony and humor.
hardcover
88 pages; 33 illustrations;
19.5 x 24.5 cm; 0.51 kg;
isbn 978-85-7503-672-3
portuguese and english editions
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Conceived by the artist to be a work
of art in itself, Barroco de lírios is a
retrospective of Tunga’s main works,
executed between 1981 and 1996,
highlighting sculptures, installations and
texts of his authorship. One of the most
exquisite productions of the Brazilian
editorial market, the book includes
inserts and transparencies that are nonsigned multiples. This was the Cosac
Naify’s first book. To the celebration
of its 10th year anniversary Cosac Naify
produced a not for sale limited edition
of a box-set assembling seven books in
different formats by the artist.
hardcover and dust jacket
308 pages | 217 illustrations
28 x 19.5 cm | 1.72 kg
isbn 85-86374-02-4
portuguese and english editions
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catalogue raisonné
iberê camargo
[volume 1 – prints]
Mônica Zielinsky (org.)
The entire collection of prints produced
by one of the most important Brazilian
artists, also a remarkable painter, has
now been organized and catalogued
for the first time. This book is an
essential source for everyone who is
interested in Brazilian art history. The
publication offers a complete vision of
Camargo’s graphic work, following his
stylistic and technical evolution. The
research was developed by a team
from Fundação Iberê Camargo (Iberê
Camargo Foundation), an institution
that has just moved to a stunning new
building, designed by Alvaro Siza, in
Porto Alegre, Brazil.
co-edition fundação iberê camargo
sponsored by gerdau and petrobras through
the brazilian ministry of culture
hardcover covered in textile
504 pages | 692 illustrations;
23.5 x 29.5 cm | 2.75 kg
isbn 85-7503-529-0
bilingual edition (portuguese | english)
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- objects
arthur luiz piza
farnese
texts Christine Frérot and Michel
Nuridsany
texts Farnese de Andrade, Charles Cosac,
and Marco Antonio Mastrobuono
The French critics Christine Frérot and
Michel Nuridsany analyze the work of
one of the most important alive Brazilian
artist, based in Paris for the past fifty
years. This edition gathers 160 images
of prints, collages, relieves, objects and
watercolours, tracing a visual pathway
from the middle of the 1950s until
more recent creations. A substantial
chronology reviews the life of the
artist, from 1928 until the remarkable
year of 2002, when Piza was honoured
with a major exhibition at the Calouste
Gulbenkian Foundation in Paris, and
also two retrospectives in Brazil.
A contemporary of Mary Vieira, Sergio
Camargo and Lygia Clark, though taking
a totally divergent path in his work,
Farnese de Andrade’s dense symbolism
has been recently rediscovered by
the local art world. Moving from the
landlocked Brazilian state of Minas
Gerais to Rio de Janeiro when he
was 22, his contact with the sea left a
definitive mark on his work. From his
walks along the ocean he gathered
organic elements that he would include
in his objects, set by synthetic resin.
With vestiges of his childhood, boxes
and shrines, dolls and sacred Images
he recreates the strong tradition of the
art from his homeland, reinventing it in
a unique oeuvre permeated by sadness,
eroticism, and a view of the human
being as imprisoned by solitude.
sponsored by galvão engenharia
hardcover
376 pages; 169 illustrations;
18 x 23.5 cm; 1.39 kg;
isbn 85-7503-170-8
bilingual edition (portuguese | french)
rights available
sponsored by centro cultural banco do brasil
through the brazilian ministry of culture
hardcover with resin label
256 pages | 145 illustrations
16.5 x 22 cm | 0.79 kg
isbn 85-7503-447-2
bilingual edition (portuguese | english)
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ARCHITECTURE
paulo mendes da rocha
Rosa Artigas (org.)
vol. 1 – projects 1957-1999
texts Paulo Mendes da Rocha
project memorial Guilherme Wisnik
vol. 2 – projects 1999-2006
interview with the architects Guilherme Wisnik and Martin Corullon
One of the most award-winning and prominent Brazilian architects of
the present time, winner of the 2006 Pritzker Prize, Paulo Mendes da
Rocha is introduced in this book according to the appealing themes
in his work: the territory, the technique and the city. Selected projects
illustrate each of these themes, followed by brief descriptions of the
genesis and resolution of each work. The second volume covers
Mendes da Rocha’s most recent projects, even more dedicated to
urbanism, such as the São Paulo project for the 2012 Olympic Games,
the Central Mill Park, in Piracicaba, São Paulo, and the Master plan
for the University of Vigo, Spain. He reaffirms his humanist and antidogmatic posture, revealed in his view of architecture as an art that
should “support the unpredictability of life” and “build the city for all”.
hardcover
28.5 x 25.5 cm | 1.88 kg
[vol. 1] 240 pages | 342 illustrations | 1.88 kg
isbn 85-86374-76-8
[vol. 2] 160 pages | 212 illustrations | 1.25 kg
isbn 978-85-7503-561-0
bilingual edition (portuguese | english)
english rights sold to rizzoli (usa)
maquetes de papel
[paper models]
concept and text Paulo Mendes da
Rocha
This small book is a lecture given by
Mendes da Rocha to students and
architects in Curitiba, Brazil. It happens
to be an unpretentious testimony about
his working process, revealing the ways
through which his ideas materialize into
forms and volumes. He tells how he
searches for solutions and discusses
contemporary issues involved in the
design process, using references from
various fields of knowledge, especially
from physics, geography, art and
philosophy. The architect shows the
importance of the moment when he
builds paper models as a resource for
checking his propositions in space.
paperback
64 pages | 11 illustrations
21 x 17 cm | 0.2 kg;
isbn 978-85-7503-625-9
spanish rights sold to gustavo gili (spain)
rights available
iberê camargo foundation
álvaro siza
–
Flávio Kiefer (ed.)
texts José Luiz Canal, Jorge Figueira,
Kenneth Frampton, Flávio Kiefer and
Roberto Segre
Winner of the Golden Lion at the 2002
Venice Biennial, this architectural
masterpiece was designed by Álvaro
Siza (Pritzker Prize in 1992) to house the
work of Brazilian expressionist painter
Iberê Camargo. The white concrete
structure overlooking Guaíba Lake
in the South of Brazil is presented in
this edition through essays written
by critics from different countries,
who also debate contemporary art
museum issues. The beautifully printed
photographs, combined with sketches
and plans, show both the construction
and a tour outside and inside the
building as conceived by the architect.
hardback
192 pages; 175 illustrations;
2.,5 x 26.5 cm;
isbn 978-85-7503-730-0
portuguese and english editions
publication due in october 2008
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‚
lucio costa
burle marx
marcos acayaba
coletivo
text Guilherme Wisnik
text Vera Beatriz Siqueira
Leading character in the setting of
modern architecture in Brazil, Lucio
Costa (1902-1998) is presented here
through his main projects and his role
as cultural articulator. The essay by
critic Guilherme Wisnik, along with
testimonies, photos and drawings,
introduces Costa’s works, such as the
building for the Ministry of Education
and Public Health, in Rio de Janeiro,
and the Pilot Plan for Brasília. It also
emphasizes his key role in promoting Le
Corbusier’s visit to Brazil in 1936.
The trajectory of the great Brazilian
artist and landscape designer Burle
Marx (1909-1994), creator of the
landscape project for the Aterro do
Flamengo, in Rio de Janeiro, is reviewed
by the historian Vera Beatriz Siqueira.
His main works are examined in 16 fully
illustrated chapters that capture all the
shades and the permanence of those
creations. Besides the monumental
gardens on Guanabara Bay, the book
highlights his works in Brasília and also
in country houses and farms.
texts Hugo Segawa, Júlio Roberto
Katinsky and Guilherme Wisnik
[collective: são paulo
contemporary architecture]
sponsored by banco bbm through the
brazilian ministry of culture
sponsored by banco bbm through the
brazilian ministry of culture
paperback
128 pages; 242 illustrations;
23 x 28 cm; 0.77 kg;
isbn 85-7503-0871-6
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portuguese and english editions
paperback
128 pages | with illustrations
28 x 23 cm | 1.09 kg
isbn 85-7503-089-2
english and portuguese editions
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Cosac Naify has also published A Way of Being
Modern – Lucio Costa and Contemporary
Criticism with texts by Roberto Conduru,
João Masao Kamita, Otávio Leonídio, and
Ana Luiza Nobre.
Marcos Acayaba’s work is one of
the most consistent in the Brazilian
contemporary architectural scene.
Influenced by masters such as Oscar
Niemeyer, Mendes da Rocha and
Vilanova Artigas, his projects reveal a
rigorous and non-dogmatic procedure
that always searches for the most
adequate constructive process to each
situation, be it using reinforced concrete,
steel or wooden structures. With more
than four hundred pictures, plans and
sketches, texts by critics and historians,
as well as an account by Acayaba
himself on his formation, this first book
on his work shows how his architecture
blends the poetic, the rational and the
environmentally concerned.
hardcover
272 pages; 469 illustrations;
22 x 27 cm; 1.34 kg;
isbn 978-85-7503-663-1
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texts Ana Vaz Milheiros, Ana Luiza Nobre
and Guilherme Wisnik
Coletivo is a cross-section of
contemporary São Paulo architecture
organized around a selection of projects
by architects who graduated from the
University of São Paulo Faculty of
Architecture and Urbanism (fau-usp)
between 1986 and 1996. The book
brings 36 representative projects from
six studios, one of which, mmbb, won
the main prize at the 2007 Rotterdam
Biennial with the project Watery Voids.
paperback
264 pages | 463 illustrations
21 x 21 cm | 0.7 kg
isbn 85-7503-460-x
bilingual edition (portuguese | english)
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DESIGN
brazilian design before design aspects of graphic history
1870-1960
Rafael Cardoso (org.)
A compilation of nine case studies from
the period of 1870-1960, this book starts
a series dedicated to the history of
graphic design in Brazil. Challenging the
view that graphic design was introduced
to Brazil in the 60s by “modernists”
from the Hochschule für Gestaltung
in Ulm, Germany, Rafael Cardoso uses
collected essays and images to argue
that before this period Brazilian design
had already developed an “enormous
richness of solutions and a presence
of modern design without being
modernist”. Winner of many editorial
prizes, the book itself brings very
innovative solutions in graphic design.
paperback with random inside leaf
folded as jacket
360 pages | 225 illustrations
17 x 22 cm | 0.9 kg
isbn 85-7503-428-6
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visual design fifty years
alexandre wollner
–
presentation Décio Pignatari
foreword Goebel Weyne and Laîs Moura
Wollner
This book follows the development
of graphic designer and fine artist
Alexandre Wollner [1928]. It runs from
his early works in the 1950s, with
creations made specially for the
celebrations of the IV Centennial of
São Paulo, through his graduation
studies at the Hoschule für Gestaltung,
Ulm, Germany, and his classes and
collaborations with Joseph Albers, Otl
Aicher, down to recent visual identity
programs with brands and logos for
such companies as Philco, Itaú and
Klabin. Printed on special paper and
designed by Wollner himself, the book
is an obligatory reference for designers,
researchers and students of advertising,
marketing and related careers. Includes
bibliographies, glossary and a “making
of” of the edition.
hardcover
336 pages | 500 illustrations
21 x 31 cm | 2.01 kg
isbn 85-7503-143-0
bilingual edition (portuguese | english)
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brazilian graphic design
in the 1960’s
Chico Homem de Melo (org.)
The second volume in the series
discusses the fertile panorama of
the arts in the 60s, both in Brazil and
abroad, and considers the decade as
a period of consolidation of a Brazilian
graphic design. The book reproduces
and analyzes a wide selection of images,
including book covers and insides,
magazines, advertising, posters and
projects of corporate and urban design.
paperback with random inside leaf
folded as jacket
304 pages | 514 illustrations
17 x 22 cm | 1.1 kg
isbn 85-7503-521-5
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PHOTOGRAPHY
the vulnerability of being
photos Claudia Andujar
The monograph of the artist, born in
Switzerland in 1931, presents 50 years
of activity in Brazil, a country she
adopted in 1955. Having documented
South American peoples, such as the
Karaja Indians, between 1956 and 1958,
Claudia achieved worldwide acclaim for
works acquired by the curator Edward
Steichen (moma). The book presents the
essays on photograph The Vulnerability
of Being and Inner Territories along
with 72 images produced between
1958 and 2003, as well as the colorful
overlappings of the series Dreams
(2003).
hardcover
340 pages | 142 illustrations
22.5 x 20.5 cm | 1.4 kg
isbn 85-7503-395-6
bilingual edition (portuguese | english)
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a fotografia moderna no brasil
[brazil modern photography]
texts Helouise Costa and Renato
Rodrigues da Silva
Modern photography in Brazil begins
with a criticism of pictorialism and
assumes a radically contemporary,
urban and cosmopolitan feature in
the tendency toward abstraction
and experimentalism from the 1940’s
onwards. The volume collects over
eighty works by the most important
Brazilian photographers of that period,
including Geraldo de Barros, Ademar
Manarini, Gaspar Gasparian, Rubens
Scavone and Thomaz Farkas,.
hardcover
224 pages | 95 illustrations
17.5 x 24 cm | 0.73 kg
isbn 85-7503-342-5
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geraldo de barros
fotoformas | sobras
Rubens Fernandes Junior (org.)
Texts: Radhá Abramo, Nelson Aguilar,
Pietro Maria Bardi, Rubens Fernandes
Junior, Eugen Gomringer, Paulo
Herkenhoff and Adon Peres.
Geraldo de Barros changed the course
of Brazilian photography in the 1950’s,
steering it definitively toward modernity.
With this book, the photographer is
finally shown in a work up to the mark
of his photograph.
two hardcover volumes in a glove
412 pages | 231 illustrations
21 x 21 cm; 1.66 kg;
isbn 85-7503-502-9
bilingual edition (portuguese | english)
ethiopian notebooks
otto stupakoff
photographs J. R. Duran
postface Professor Augusto Massi
Rubens Fernandes Junior (ed.)
J. R. Duran, better known for his fashion
photographs and nudes, with over
100 Playboy magazine covers to his
name, records his journeys through
Ethiopia in a book that mixes travel
notes and photographic essay by
promoting a playful and lyrical dialogue
between photography, literature and
ethnography. With an impressive ability
to capture body language, and cultural
and sensorial information, Duran
photographs the beauty and habits
of the tribes of the Omo River valley:
Karo, Hamar, Mursi, Nyagatom and
Dhassanech. In notes from his travel
diary, he also describes the views of the
African landscape, the architecture of
the cities and his personal experiences
during a long travel around Ethiopia.
sponsored by oi through the brazilian
ministry of culture
flex bound
272 pages; 469 illustrations;
22 x 27 cm; 1.34 kg;
isbn 978-85-7503-663-1
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Otto Stupakoff is one of the greatest
names of Brazilian photography and
built an international career in the
pages of such magazines as Harper’s
Bazaar, Vogue and Elle. But this book
also reveals a subtly politicized gaze,
one generous to and concerned for
Eastern cultures. The anthology brings
together, beyond the remarkable series
of photographs of fashion, images that
he produced for over fifty years. They
may be family portraits, celebrities as
Jack Nicholson, Pelé or Richard Nixon
or travel photos. Any image is a pretext
for a narrative by Otto Stupakoff, who
infuses each photographic moment with
atmospheres and nuances.
co-editor in-mod
support pequena galeria 18, and são paulo
fashion week
flex bound
184 pages; 95 illustrations;
23 x 31 cm; 1.08 kg;
isbn 85-7503-404-9
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rockers
photographs Bob Gruen
text Supla
New Yorker Bob Gruen, a backstage
observer of the 1960’s music scene and
one of Bob Dylan’s biggest fans, is now
considered one of the most important
photographers of the universe of
music stardom. This work provides
essential documentation on rock, the
beginnings and apogee of ‘punk’, new
wave and the trajectory of the leading
American and English bands of the
last forty years. As a photographer he
became world-famous for having taken
the last photographs of John Lennon
before Lennon’s death, and of a huge
list of music stars such as Tina Turner,
Michael Jackson, Keith Richards, Iggy
Pop, The Ramones, Sid Vicious, and
Kiss, among others.
paperback
220 pages17 x 22 cm | 274 illustrations
22.5 x 31.5 cm | 1.23 kg
isbn 978-85-7503- 592-4
bilingual edition (portuguese | english)
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music | DANCE
three songs by tom jobim
texts Lorenzo Mammì, Luiz Tatit and
Arthur Nestrovski
cover Tunga
illustrations Tom Jobim
This volume brings expressive names
of music criticism in essays which
exploit the literature, the erudit tradition
and popular music in the work of
Antonio Carlos Jobim. The three
scholars selected a song from the
musician’s repertoire that they consider
emblematic: Lorenzo Mammì chose
“Sabiá”; Luiz Tatit, “Gabriela”, and Arthur
Nestrovski, “Águas de Março” - which
he considers “the most beautiful
samba song in the world”. The songs
of Tom Jobim gain new and surprising
interpretations, in subtle inflections,
that address the complexity of their
simplicity.
‚ contains
an audio cd with the three songs
specially recorded for this edition.
paperback
96 pages; 8 illustrations;
15.8 x 21 cm; 0.27 kg;
isbn 85-7503-378-6
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eight or nine essays about
grupo corpo
Inês Bogéa (ed.)
texts Inês Bogéa, Marco Giannotti, Maria
Rita Kehl, Eliane Robert Moraes, Arthur
Nestrovski, Renato Janine Ribeiro, Zuenir
Ventura, Luis Fernando Verissimo and
Humberto Werneck
photographs José Luiz Pederneiras
A collection of texts on the group
from Minas Gerais founded in 1975
and today a national and international
reference that goes beyond the field
of dance, having amassed an original
repertoire of stage scenery and musical
compositions over the years. In this
new edition, Inês Bogéa has updated
her essay, including comments on the
most recent choreographies of Grupo
Corpo. Also incorporated are photos
and information on the shows produced
since the year 2000.
co-editor instituto tomie ohtake
sponsored by petrobras through the
brazilian ministry of culture
paperback
224 pages; 33 illustrations;
17 x 23 cm; 0.64 kg;
isbn 978-85-7503-579-5
bilingual edition (portuguese | english)
rights available
pina bausch
text Fabio Cypriano
photographs Maarten Vanden Abeele
introduction Robert Wilson
presentation Miguel Chaia
The essay by Fabio Cypriano
underscores the research method
created by the choreographer Pina
Bausch and rebuilds the trajectory
and the work process of her company,
the Tanztheater de Wuppertal, in
Germany. The author approaches the
utilization of elements from diverse
cultures with the objective of creating a
universal language that can be found in
choreographies like Viktor (Rome, 1986),
Nefés (Istanbul, 2003), Ten chi (Saitama,
Japan, 2004), Rough cut (Seoul, Korea,
2005), and others. Previously unseen
photographs by Maarten Vanden
Abeele illustrate a chapter dedicated
to the Brazilian play created by
Pina Bausch.
hardcover and jacket
176 pages | 65 illustrations
21 x 28 cm | 0.86 kg
isbn 85-7503-464-2
rights available
cinema
o século do cinema
[a century of cinema]
text Glauber Rocha
foreword Professor Ismail Xavier
A new edition of the work organized
by the director Glauber Rocha (19391981), this book assembles all the
cinematographic criticism written by the
Brazilian moviemaker. The texts present
wide panels reviewing American, Italian
and French cinema in chapters such
as “Hollywood”, “Neo-realism” and
“Nouvelle vague”. The volume includes
an elucidating foreword by Ismail Xavier
and critical texts by Orlando Senna,
Rogério Sganzerla, Paulo Leminski,
José Carlos Avellar and Pedro Karp
Vasquez, rounded off with an interview
with the Portuguese critic João Lopes.
paperback
416 pages | 62 illustrations
16 x 22 cm | 1.1 kg
isbn 85-7503-457-x
french rights sold to apacb | magic cinéma
rights avaiable
jean vigo [box set]
manoel de oliveira
abbas kiarostami
texts Paulo Emílio Sales Gomes
Alvaro Machado (org.)
The Jean Vigo box set is the most
ambitious editorial project ever
developed on the work of the French
filmmaker Jean Vigo. Result of research
and reflection by the important Brazilian
critic Paulo Emilio Sales Gomes (191677), it was originally released in France
in 1957. The book is now reedited along
with another work by Sales Gomes:
Vigo, vulgo Almereyda, a biography of
the Jean Vigo’s father. A comprehensive
list of critical texts, including such
names as Andre Bazin and François
Truffaut, and a brief piece by the 99
year-old Portuguese filmmaker Manoel
de Oliveira enriches the set of books,
which is accompanied also by a
double dvd containing the filmmaker’s
complete works.
This book is based upon a
comprehensive interview by the most
important Portuguese director, Manoel
de Oliveira, given to Leon Cakoff,
organizer of the Mostra Internacional
de Cinema, an annual event held in
São Paulo. The director discloses his
philosophy about cinema, photography
and life in a remarkable testimony
focused on art and aesthetics. Essays
by João Bénard da Costa, Inácio Araujo
and Leyla-Perrone Moisés complement
the volume, together with the
filmography of Manoel de Oliveira.
Abbas Kiarostami and
Youssef Ishaghpour
‚ the
box containing the two volumes and a dvd
will be released in 2009
hardcover
240 pages | 34 illustrations
17.5 x 23 cm | 0.62 kg
isbn 85-7503-465-0
rights available
postface Stella Senra
This book assembles a series of
photographs and three texts by the
Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami,
as well as his filmography. The
photographic essay called “The roads”
is a previously unpublished series of 52
black and white photographs taken by
the filmmaker in the north of Iran. His
essays are presented in the chapter
“Two or three things I know about
me”, which offers Abbas Kiarostami’s
touching considerations about cinema,
photography and life. The volume also
includes an essay by the French-Iranian
Youssef Ishaghpour.
hardcover
328 pages | 147 illustrations
17.5 x 23 cm | 1.1 kg
isbn 85-7503-367-0
rights available
fashion
brazilian fashion collection
texts various authors
An unprecedented editorial initiative in the country, the series seeks
to draw a picture of the Brazilian contemporary fashion by recording
in ten books the trajectory of some of the most important Brazilian
stylists. Each volume is composed by an essay, an introductory
text, the stylist chronology and is richly illustrated by images that
compose a panorama of their respective creative universes. The
graphic design of the series, winner of the prestigious (aiga) American
Institute of Graphic Arts’ prize, respects and considers the individual
characteristics of each stylist. The series features over 2000 images,
by various photographers, and focuses the following Brazilian
designers: Gloria Coelho, Ronaldo Fraga, Alexandre Herchcovitch,
André Lima, Reinaldo Lourenço, Lenny Niemeyer, Clô Orozco, Walter
Rodrigues, Marcelo Sommer, and Lino Villaventura.
‚ selected
by the american institute of graphic arts (aiga) as one of the 50
books | 50 covers of 2007
sponsored by morumbi shopping
paperback
160 pages; 115 illustrations (each book)
14 x 21 cm; 0.38 kg
rights available
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