Seth Low Professor of History

Aristide Maillol often used the female form to symbolize aspects of nature such as the sea

Edited by Zanna Gilbert

He was one of the first to establish floral still lifes as a genre on its own

8 inches W x 7

Purity Is a Myth: The Materiality of Concrete Art from Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay Images in the Margins Seth Low Professor of HistoryEdited 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