Purity Is a Myth: The Materiality of Concrete Art from Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay

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Edited by Zanna Gilbert, Pia Gottschaller, Tom Learner, and Andrew Perchuk Presenting new scholarship, this publication is an innovative 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. Originally coined by the Dutch artist Theo van Doesburg in 1930, the term concrete denotes abstract painting with no reference to external reality. Van Doesburg argued that there was nothing…