Concrete Encoded: Poetry, Design, and the Cybernetic Imaginary in Brazil

A study of concrete art and poetry, its implications, and influence in Brazil.

Concrete art and poetry burst onto Brazil’s cultural stage in the 1950s, while the country was embarking on a dizzying period of modernization. Bringing together key poets and visual artists alongside less recognized figures, Nathaniel Wolfson shows that concretism was hardly socially inert, as pundits have suggested. Rather, it presciently grappled with an emerging information age that would soon reorganize huma...