Noescritos. Sobre eso que se llama arte

by Luis Felipe Noé

Uno de los más importantes artistas latinoamericanos del último medio siglo reúne en este volumen su pensamiento artístico, crítico y teórico, que continúa el formulado en su primer libro ‘Antiestética’ (1965): artículos, conferencias y textos inéditos que Noé escribió en Buenos Aires, Nueva York y París entre 1966 y 2006. Los cuatro ejes que articulan este libro son: el arte entre la tecnología y la rebelión, arte y lenguaje, arte y poder y la ampliación del concepto de pintura. ‘Noescritos sobre eso que se llama arte’ es el testimonio teórico de «un pensamiento en estado de evolución» en el que continuamente se cruzan los temas permanentes de este artista y pensador: el caos como estructura, las relaciones entre arte y teoría, la cuestión artística en América Latina, la pintura como lenguaje artístico y la crisis de la imagen simbólica.

514 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2007

About the author

Luis Felipe Noé was an Argentine artist, writer, intellectual, and teacher. He was known in his home country as Yuyo. In 1961 he formed Otra Figuración (another figuration) with three other Argentine artists. Their eponymous exhibition and subsequent work greatly influenced the Neofiguration (Neo-figuration, New figuration) movement. After the group disbanded, Noé relocated to New York City where he created and exhibited assemblages which stretched the boundaries of the canvas.
In 1965 he published his groundbreaking theoretical work, Antiestética. He then took a ten-year hiatus from painting and upon return to Buenos Aires opened a bar, taught, wrote and created installations with mirrors. A military coup coincided with his painting comeback, and in 1976 Noé migrated to Paris where he continued to experiment, both with canvas re-texturing and the drawing process. His later paintings move away from the figure and focus on elements of landscape.
Noé lived and worked in Buenos Aires, New-York and Paris. His son, Gaspar Noé, is a Franco-Argentine filmmaker. His daughter, Paula,is a painter.