13403
Graduate Course
SoSe 18: Concrete/Abstract: Post-45 Trajectories in Brasil, Germany and the USA
Eric de Bruyn
Comments
This seminar will examine the complex history of abstract and concrete art focusing, mainly, on the post-45 period in Europe, Brasil and the USA. In recent years, both artists and historians have shown a renewed interest in this field for several reasons. In the first place, Brazilian artists, such as Lygia Clark, Hélio Oiticica and Lygia Pape, have gained wide-spread recognition for the manner in which they reworked the concrete art tradition during the sixties and beyond. In their work, we can follow a move from the ‘formal abstract’ to the ‘social concrete’ in a development of performative and participatory modes of art practice. Important in this regard is also the German, post-Bauhaus context of the Ulm Hochschule, which was influential in South America during the 1950s, but developed a very different model of the ‘social concrete’ during the 1960s. In the second place, we will question to what extent this dialectic of the (formal) abstract and the (social) concrete is relevant to us today. We shall discuss notions of ‘real abstraction’ as employed in art history as well as political theory and reflect on the becoming concrete of ‘abstract’ math in our current algorithmic culture. close
13 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Tue, 2018-04-17 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2018-04-24 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2018-05-08 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2018-05-15 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2018-05-22 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2018-05-29 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2018-06-05 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2018-06-12 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2018-06-19 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2018-06-26 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2018-07-03 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2018-07-10 12:00 - 14:00
Tue, 2018-07-17 12:00 - 14:00