Lo Aparente y lo Concreto en el Arte. Fasciculo 1 - Fasciculo 5.

Montevideo.: Asociación de Arte Constructivo / Taller Torres-Garcia., 1947 – 1948.. Original publisher's printed wrappers with titles and vignette to front cover, vignette and publisher's details to rear, all in black by Torres-Garcia.. 5 vols. 8vo. (209 x 166 mm).. Leaf with publication details recto, list of publications by the Taller Torres-Garcia verso, title, leaf of explanatory text and the text of Torres-Garcia's 'Leccion 1a' to 'Leccion 16a' illustrated throughout in monochrome on glossy white paper, final leaf of each fascicule with 'terminó de imprimir'. A very good complete set of the published versions of Torres-Garcia's 1947 lectures on Universal Constructivism, in the original wrappers.'Lo Aparente y lo Concreto en el Arte' collects the 16 lectures given by Torres-Garcia between April 4th and September 6th, 1947. The lectures, expounding Torres-Garcia's theories of Universal Constructivism, were all given at the 'Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias' in Montevideo which had been founded the previous year. Each fascicule includes monochrome illustrations of objects and paintings - from paleolithic objects to Torres-Garcia's own works - on glossy paper. Torres-Garcia had founded his studio / school, the Taller Torres-Garcia, which is listed as co-publisher, in 1944.