This roundtable will explore the themes of Mari Rodríguez Binnie’s new book, The São Paulo Neo-Avant-Garde: Radical Art and Mass Print Media in Cold War Brazil (University of Texas Press, 2024) in which she examines how artists challenged a military dictatorship through mass print technologies in the 1970s and 1980s in São Paulo, Brazil. Often working collaboratively, these artists established alternative networks of exchange locally and internationally to circulate their work. In this first English-language book to focus entirely on conceptual practices in São Paulo in this period, Binnie examines these artworks and their engagement with politics and mainstream art institutions and practices, unearthing a scene critical to the development of contemporary Brazilian art.
Bio: Mari Rodríguez Binnie is an Associate Professor of Art at Williams College and the Graduate Program in the History of Art at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. She obtained her doctorate degree in Art History from the University of Texas at Austin in 2017.