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1978 · 39170 — Rio de Janeiro: EdiOMo Funarte 1978. 25cm. Arte Brasileiro Contemporaneo. Textos de Armando Freitas Filho 46p b/w plates and color plates ports. wrps. Early catalogue of Gerchman who studied at the Rio de Janeiro School of Fine Arts. In the 1960s his work focused on mass culture. He used faces clipped from news photos but unlike Andy Warhol who used infamous celebrity he used images of anonymous individuals. These faces would be reproduced as multiple painted images in a comic-strip style. In the late 1960s Gerchman devoted his interest to urban isolation and alienation. From the mid-1960s to the early 1970s Gerchman incorporated letters and words in his paintings photographs and sculptures. During his stay in New York City from 1968-1973 Gerchman adapted to his new audience by producing works with English words. His new works still reflected Gerchman's populist nature and are rooted in concrete poetry. Some of his work with letters also addresses issues of Latin America's relative geographic location in the Southern Hemisphere EdiOMo Funarte unknown books