The Organic Line: Toward a Topology of Modernism

A major rethinking of twentieth-century abstract art mobilized by the work of Brazilian artist Lygia Clark

What would it mean to treat an interval of space as a line, thus drawing an empty void into a constellation of art and meaning-laden things? In this book, Irene Small elucidates the signal discovery of the Brazilian artist Lygia Clark in 1954: a fissure of space between material elements that Clark called “the organic line.” For much of the history of art, Clark’s discovery, much like t...