Purity is a myth : the materiality of concrete art from Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay / edited by Zanna Gilbert, Pia Gottschaller, Tom Learner, and Andrew Perchuk.
Publisher:
Getty Research Institute :
Copyright Date:
2021
Description:
x, 325 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 26 cm.
Introduction: The Myth of Purity: New Material Histories of Concrete Art / Zanna Gilbert, Pia Gottschaller, Tom Learner, and Andrew Perchuk -- Part I. New Perspectives on the Emergence of Concrete Art from Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay -- Material Relations: Torres-Garcia and Concrete Art from Argentina / Niko Vicario -- Rhod Rothfuss and the marco recortado: A Synthesis of Cultural Traditions in the Rio de la Plata Region / Maria Amalia Garcia -- Waldemar Cordeiro and Grupo Forma: The Roman Road to Sao Paulo Concrete Art / Heloisa Espada -- Part II. Generative Processes in Concrete Art -- Cut, Fuse, Fissure: Planarity circa 1954 / Irene V. Small -- Judith Lauand's Sketchbooks and the Visualization of Concrete Form in 1954 / Aliza Edelman -- Hermelindo Fiaminghi's Quadrature of the Circle between 1954 and 1959: From Concrete Enamel to Giotto's Tempera / Pia Gottschaller, Tom Learner, and Joy Mazurek -- Part III. Concretizing Color -- Energy, Legibility, Purity: Color in Argentine Concrete Art / Idurre Alonso, Pia Gottschaller, C.C. Marsh, Andrew Perchuk, and Lynn Lee -- Looking to the Past to Paint the Future: Innovative: Anachronisms in the Work of Alfredo Volpi and Helio Oiticica / Mari Carmen Ramirez and Corina E. Rogge -- The Adventure of Color in Brazilian Art: Aluisio Carvao, Helio Oiticica, and Roberto Burle Marx / Luiz Camillo Osorio -- Part IV. Concrete Art on Paper -- Printing Invention: Artwork, Project, or Device / Isabel Plante -- On Kissing and Biting: The Material Impressions of Language and Design in the Work of Willys de Castro and Hermelindo Fiaminghi / Zanna Gilbert -- Part V. Analyzing Concrete Art: Technical Overviews -- Experimentation and Materiality: Constructing the Brazilian Artwork, 1950s-60s / Luiz A. C. Souza, Alessandra Rosado, Yacy-Ara Froner, Rita L. Rodrigues, Maria Alice Sanna Castelo Branco, Giula Giovani, and Vitor P. Amaral -- Argentine Concrete Art, the First Decade: Between the Material and Formal Tradition and Innovation / Pino Monkes -- Technical Studies of Concrete Art from the Rio de La Plata Region / Fernando Marte -- Part VI. The Reception of Concrete Art in Museums and Academia -- A History of the Field / Aleca Le Blanc -- Part VII. Chronologies -- Paint Production in Argentina, 1940s-60 / Florencia Castella and Sofia Frigerio -- Paint Production in Brazil, 1940s-60s / Joao Henrique Ribeiro Barbosa.
Summary:
"Purity Is a Myth presents new scholarship on Concrete art in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay from the 1940s to the 1960s"-- Provided by publisher.
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