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- Title
Neo-concretism, Apex and Rupture of the Brazilian Constructive Project.
- Authors
BRITO, RONALDO
- Abstract
This analysis, written by a young and inexperienced critic a little less than a decade ago, could not undergo revision without becoming another text altogether, or an internal argument with itself. Therefore, it is set forth exactly as it was produced, with all of its innocence, flaws, and errors. The extracts published elsewhere may have conferred upon it a certain objectivity, thereby releasing the author from new and successive re-elaborations. However, the imperative would be to continue specifying and deepening the analysis of the works themselves, thus avoiding the rigid limitations of the actual Neo-concrete movement. Since 1975, this movement has become increasingly well known (or at least increasingly cited), acknowledged, and appreciated. Leaving aside opportunism and nostalgia, this seems a positive thing to me. In the history of Brazilian culture, Neo-concretism was without doubt one of the few moments in which we took it upon ourselves to adopt Rimbaud's challenge to be absolutely modern. Of course, I know well that the present mood heralds the crisis of the modern. Long before this, however, came my daily experience of the dreadful ignorance, incomprehension, rejection, resistance, and even panic regarding the modern that still characterizes our artistic circles. And this almost thirty years after Neo-concretism, eighty after Cubism, and one hundred and twenty after Cézanne.
- Subjects
CONCRETE (Philosophy); INNOCENCE (Psychology); BRAZILIAN history; CULTURE; OPPORTUNISM (Psychology); NOSTALGIA &; society; REJECTION (Psychology) -- Social aspects; CUBISM; HISTORY
- Publication
October, 2017, Issue 161, p89
- ISSN
0162-2870
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1162/OCTO_a_00304