About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: Artur Barrio, Francisco Rodrigues da Silva, Carlos Latuff, Oscar Oiwa, Roberto Burle Marx, Aleijadinho, Hercules Florence, Valeria Roncoli, Anna Bella Geiger, Eduardo Kac, Vik Muniz, Cildo Meireles, Os Gemeos, Cybele Varela, Assume Vivid Astro Focus, Silvia Poloto, Everaldo Coelho, Rubens Gerchman, Marcelo de Melo, Eduardo Recife, Nair de Tefe, Moyses Baumstein, Marilia Rocha, Abdias do Nascimento, Gustavo Mendonca, Marianne Peretti, Pedro Lobo, Laura Belem, Jelon Vieira, Marcello Dantas, Ernesto Neto, Francisco Brennand, Lygia Pape, Manoel da Costa Ataide, Adriana Varejao, Augusto de Campos, Brigida Baltar, Sergio de Camargo, Ubirajara Fidalgo, Maristela Salvatori, TeleKommando, Rachel Rosalen, Mart'nalia, Lia Menna Barreto, Joao Zero, Alain-Marcel Linse, Rubem Valentim, Giselda Leirner, List of Brazilian artists, Iran do Espirito Santo, Miguel Torres de Andrade, Joao Zeferino da Costa, Adriana Bertini, Abraham Palatnik, Roland Cabot. Excerpt: Artur Barrio (Artur Alipio Barrio de Sousa Lopes) is an artist who lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Much of his work consists of installation pieces that create interaction with the public. Barrio engages the viewer as participant in his art, often without their knowledge that it is art in which they are participating. By doing so, the participant can have an experience not removed from life but rather incorporated into it. He wants to encourage contact with all of reality including the discards of life such as garbage. He wants us to recognize that this reality is just as real if we can see past the symbolic meanings we attach to these objects. (Manifesto MUD/MEAT SEWER) He was born in Porto, Portugal in 1945. In 1952, he spent six months in Angola "where he discovered the African culture." He then moved to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1955, returning...
