Research Catalog

Title

Lina Bo Bardi : drawings / Zeuler R. M. de A. Lima.

Author

Bardi, Lina Bo, 1914-1992

Publication

Princeton, New Jersey ; Barcelona : Princeton University Press ; in association with Fundació Joan Miró, [2019]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lima, Zeuler Rocha Mello de Almeida
• Fundació Joan Miró (Barcelona, Spain), host institution

Description

vii, 130 pages : illustrations; 26 x 21 cm

Summary

Lina Bo Bardi (1914-92) was one of the most prolific and visionary architects of the twentieth century. Raised in Italy under Mussolini's Fascist regime and emigrating to Brazil after World War II, she championed the power of architecture and design to embrace everyday life. Her boldly modernist designs range from concrete-and-glass structures like the São Paulo Museum of Art and the culture and leisure center SESC Pompéia to furniture and jewelry. This is the first book to examine one of the most intimate and expressive features of her life and work, but one she rarely shared with the public - drawing. Bo Bardi produced thousands of drawings in her lifetime, from picturesque landscapes drawn when she was a child, to sketches made as part of her daily routine as an architect, to fanciful drawings that show different aspects of her private life. In this beautifully illustrated book, Zeuler Lima, the world's leading authority on Bo Bardi, brings together a careful selection of these and other drawings, many of them never published until now. Bo Bardi drew on card stock, tracing paper, regular paper, and newsprint. She used pencils, watercolor, gouache, ballpoint pens, and felt-tips, producing drawings that combined surrealist elements with an eye for color and joyful forms. 'Lina Bo Bardi, Drawings' sheds critical light on the creative sensibility behind some of the twentieth century's most striking modernist designs, and provides a rare window into the design practice of an architect like no other.

Alternative Title

Drawings

Subjects

• Drawing
• Exhibition catalogs
• 1900-1999
• Bardi, Lina Bo, 1914-1992 > Exhibitions
• Drawing > 20th century > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Fundació Joan Miró, February 15-May 19, 2019.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JQF 19-1609

ISBN

• 0691191190
• 9780691191195

LCCN

2018960812

OCLC

1055681920

Author

Bardi, Lina Bo, 1914-1992, artist.

Title

Lina Bo Bardi : drawings / Zeuler R. M. de A. Lima.

Publisher

Princeton, New Jersey ; Barcelona : Princeton University Press ; in association with Fundació Joan Miró, [2019]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Lima, Zeuler Rocha Mello de Almeida, author.

Bardi, Lina Bo, 1914-1992. Drawings. Selections.

Fundació Joan Miró (Barcelona, Spain), host institution.

Research Call Number

JQF 19-1609