Purity is a Myth - The Materiality of Concrete Art from Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay - Zanna Gilbert - Paperback Bog - Getty Trust Publications -

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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.