Cildo Meireles

by Paulo Herkenhoff

Born in 1948, Cildo Meireles is one of Brazil's most significant artists of the post-war period. A pioneer of installation art since the 1960s, Meireles is best known for his dramatic and politically charged walk-in environments, which often incorporate sound, smell and touch alongside visual experience, requiring the viewer's full perceptual involvement. His installation Atraves (Through, 1983-89) confronts the viewer with a prohibitive labyrinth...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0714838586
• ISBN13: 9780714838588
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Phaidon Press
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 10.0" x 11.5"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary