Form and Sensibility: Discursive Discrepancies in Concrete and Neoconcrete Art

"Michael Asbury offers a thoroughly researched and pointed overview of the main events that helped solidify the constructivist aesthetics in Brazil. Departing from a consideration on the “rift” between São Paulo artists and their counterparts in Rio de Janeiro, Asbury offers insight on foundational texts by Mário Pedrosa and Ferreira Gullar and identifies common traits with ideas proposed by Herbert Read, Alfred North Whitehead, and Susanne Langer." (Sergio Bessa)