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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.
Price: $50.00
Pages: 248
Publisher: University of California Press
Imprint: University of California Press
Series: Studies on Latin American Art and Latinx Art
Publication Date:
07 April 2026
Trim Size: 9.00 X 7.00 in
ISBN: 9780520422483
Format: Hardcover
"An interesting and valuable contribution to art history brimming with plates of his work and photographs from his career, Borderless Painting as Borderless Art: Antonio Dias between Brazil and Europe represents a well-informed and original source of reference."
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.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Realism and Underdevelopment
2 Object and Environment
3 Painting and Project
4 Art and Commodity
Notes
Selected Bibliography
List of Illustrations
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 Realism and Underdevelopment
2 Object and Environment
3 Painting and Project
4 Art and Commodity
Notes
Selected Bibliography
List of Illustrations
Index