AHIS BC 3626y Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Concrete Art, Max Bill

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25 Aug 2016

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Concrete Art in Brazil

Max Bill, Tripartite Unity, 1948-49

• Moebius- a plane that turns in on itself

• Helped consolidate concrete art

• Builds notion of apersonal style

• Rationalist aesthetic theory

Ruptura

• “broken art”

• the role of the spectator

Grupo Fronte in Rio

• didn’t agree with the notion of the spectator’s role being a decoder

• they wanted to give the spectator more of a role in the aesthetic process

• they disband in 1965, but recoalesce in 1969 and call themselves the Neo Concrete

Movement.

Neo-Concrete

• theory of the non-object: the death of the painterly and sculptural object and the

birth of the non object

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