Purity Is a Myth The Materiality of Concrete Art From Argentina, - Brazil, and Urugua

Presenting new scholarship, this publication is an innovative technical study of the Concrete art movement in Latin America.

About the author

Zanna Gilbert is a senior research specialist at the Getty Research Institute.

Pia Gottschaller is a senior lecturer at the Courtauld Institute of Art.

Tom Learner is head of the Getty Conservation Institute's Science Department.

Andrew Perchuk is deputy director of the Getty Research Institute.

Summary

Originally coined by the Dutch artist Theo van Doesburg in 1930, the term concrete denotes abstract painting with no reference to external reality. Presenting new scholarship, this publication is the first comprehensive study of the Concrete art movement in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay from the 1940s to the 1960s.

Product details

• Authors: Zanna Gilbert, Zanna Gottschaller Gilbert, Pia Gottschaller, Tom Learner, Andrew Perchuk
• Assisted by: Zanna Gilbert (Editor), Pia Gottschaller (Editor), Tom Learner (Editor)
• Publisher: Getty, j.paul, museum publ.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2021
• EAN: 9781606067239
• ISBN: 978-1-60606-723-9
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Issues & Debates; BIBLIOTHECA PAEDIATRICA REF KARGER; Getty Publications - (Yale); Getty Publications -
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Antiques