{"product_id":"purity-is-a-myth-the-materiality-of-concrete-art-from-argentina-brazil-and-uruguay","title":"Purity Is a Myth: The Materiality of Concrete Art from Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eEdited by Zanna Gilbert, Pia Gottschaller, Tom Learner, and Andrew Perchuk\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cstrong data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePresenting new scholarship, this publication is an innovative technical study of the Concrete art movement in Latin America.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003ePurity Is a Myth \u003c\/em\u003epresents 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 \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003econcrete \u003c\/em\u003edenotes abstract painting with no reference to external reality. Van Doesburg argued that there was nothing more real than a line, color, or plane. Artists such as Willys de Castro, Lygia Clark, Waldemar Cordeiro, Hermelindo Fiaminghi, Judith Lauand, Raúl Lozza, Tomás Maldonado, Hélio Oiticica, and Rhod Rothfuss would reinvent this concept in postwar Latin America.\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e Drawing on research conducted by Getty and international partners, the essays in this volume address a variety of topics, including the general history, emergence, and reception of Concrete art; processes and color; scientific analysis of works; illustrated chronologies of the paint industry in Brazil and Argentina; and Concrete design on paper. An innovative technical study of the Concrete art movement in Latin America, this volume will be indispensable to scholars, practitioners, and students of Latin American art.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eZanna 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“\u003cem\u003ePurity Is a Myth\u003c\/em\u003e offers a valuable contribution to the history of modern and contemporary art of Latin America by discussing rigorous art history questions from the different points of view offered by research methodologies, history of exhibitions, and curatorial practices.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e—\u003cspan\u003ePaulina Pardo Gaviria, \u003cem\u003eReview:\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLiterature and Arts of the Americas\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n336 pages\u003cbr\u003e7 x 10 inches\u003cbr\u003e193 color illustrations\u003cbr\u003e ISBN 978-1-60606-723-9\u003cbr\u003epaperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Getty Publications\u003cbr\u003e Imprint: Getty Research Institute\u003cbr\u003eSeries: Issues \u0026amp; Debates\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 2021","brand":"GETTY TRUST PUBLICATIONS","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67950323532072,"sku":"xqa1792584015020","price":45.75,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0978\/6015\/7736\/files\/purity-is-a-myth-the-materiality-of-concrete-art-from-argentina-brazil-and-urugu_1.jpg?v=1792584019","url":"https:\/\/chicoradesign.shop\/products\/purity-is-a-myth-the-materiality-of-concrete-art-from-argentina-brazil-and-uruguay","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}