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A geometric motif pursued through collage by a celebrated Croatian protagonist of concrete art

Croatian artist Julije Knifer (19242004) is recognized as one of the most prominent artists related to concrete art after 1945, as well as a founding member of the 1960s art collective known as the Gorgona Group. Over a career spanning five decades, Knifer developed a singularly restrained practice focusing on the variation of a single visual motif: the meander. Knifer''s meanders have been interpreted differently depending on the period in which they appeared: first in the context of geometric abstraction and neo-constructivism of the New Tendencies of the 1960s. Today, they are more often understood as a gesture of resistance, with their asceticism and interest in the absurdism of anti-art and the neo avant-garde.

This book focuses on a group of collages, produced in the late 1950s and early 1960s, that illustrates the development of the meander motif at a p

Julije Knifer Collages for Meanders

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      Publisher: Osmos
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 31/01/2023
      ISBN13: 9780991660865, 978-0991660865
      ISBN10: 991660862

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      A geometric motif pursued through collage by a celebrated Croatian protagonist of concrete art

      Croatian artist Julije Knifer (19242004) is recognized as one of the most prominent artists related to concrete art after 1945, as well as a founding member of the 1960s art collective known as the Gorgona Group. Over a career spanning five decades, Knifer developed a singularly restrained practice focusing on the variation of a single visual motif: the meander. Knifer''s meanders have been interpreted differently depending on the period in which they appeared: first in the context of geometric abstraction and neo-constructivism of the New Tendencies of the 1960s. Today, they are more often understood as a gesture of resistance, with their asceticism and interest in the absurdism of anti-art and the neo avant-garde.

      This book focuses on a group of collages, produced in the late 1950s and early 1960s, that illustrates the development of the meander motif at a p

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