New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930–2006: Selections from a Decade of Acquisitions
November 21, 2007–February 25, 2008
Schendel, one of the major figures of postwar Brazilian art, was a painter, printmaker, and draftsman. A trained philosopher and poet, she used her art to address existential questions and to subvert the traditional hierarchies between artistic mediums. Particularly significant was her interest in the materiality of writing as a visual feature.