Roberto Burle Marx: Brazilian Modernist

224pp, lavishly illustrated.  Quarter bound in green cloth under pictorial glazed boards, with blue and white titles on spine.  4to.  As new, still in publisher’s original shrink wrap.  

The modernist parks and gardens of Brazilian landscape architect and garden designer Roberto Burle Marx (1909–1994) earned him awards, widespread acclaim, and international fame. Over a 60-year career, he designed more than 2,000 gardens worldwide, the most famous of which are those he created in collaboration with the architect Oscar Niemeyer for Brasília. Although he is best known for his landscape work, Burle Marx was a prolific artist in a variety of media, and his larger body of work―which includes paintings, drawings, tile mosaics, sculpture, textile design, jewellery, theatre costumes, and more―is critical to understanding his importance as a modernist. An avid horticulturalist, he was among the first to denounce deforestation in the Amazon region; he also discovered over thirty species of Brazilian flora, which bear his name.  
 
A well-lustrated and pioneering volume covering the full ambit of Burle Marx’s artistic and architectural output, his interests and the remarkable home he created for himself. His legacy and  influence ieplored through interviews with contemporary artists.