Purity is a Myth - The Materiality of Concrete Art from Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay
Purity is a Myth - The Materiality of Concrete Art from Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay Presenting new scholarship, this publication is the first comprehensive technical study of the Concrete art…
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Purity is a Myth - The Materiality of Concrete Art from Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay
Presenting new scholarship, this publication is the first comprehensive technical study of the Concrete art movement in Latin America.Purity Is a Myth presents new scholarship on Concrete art in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay from the 1940s to the 1960s. Van Doesburg argued that there was nothing more real than a line, color, or plane. Originally coined by the Dutch artist Theo van Doesburg in 1930, the term concrete denotes abstract painting with no reference to external reality.
Artists such as Willys de Castro, Lygia Clark, Waldemar Cordeiro, Hermelindo Fiaminghi, Judith Lauand, Ra l Lozza, Tom s Maldonado, H lio Oiticica, and Rhod Rothfuss would reinvent this concept in postwar Latin America.Drawing on research conducted by Getty and international partners, the essays in this volume address a variety of topics, including the general history,