Far from Good Design: Social Responsibility and Waldemar Cordeiro’s Early Theory of Form

By examining Waldemar Cordeiro’s theory of form in little studied and well-known texts, including a newly uncovered series of talks, of the late 1940s–early 1950s, this article revises the conflation of Cordeiro’s thinking, and the aims of Brazilian Concretism, with Max Bill’s proposals and reveals...

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מחבר ראשי: Nelson, Adele
פורמט: Article ou chapitre numérique
שפה:Anglais
יצא לאור: Artelogie 2020
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גישה מקוונת:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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סיכום:By examining Waldemar Cordeiro’s theory of form in little studied and well-known texts, including a newly uncovered series of talks, of the late 1940s–early 1950s, this article revises the conflation of Cordeiro’s thinking, and the aims of Brazilian Concretism, with Max Bill’s proposals and reveals that Cordeiro closely linked his visions of abstraction and Concrete art to social responsibility. It also sheds new light on the motivations and context for Cordeiro’s deployment of Konrad Fielder’s ideas and his dialogues and disagreements with Mário Pedrosa and Sérgio Milliet.