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We call those works of art concrete that came into being on the basis of their inherent resources and rules - without external borrowing from natural phenomena, without transforming those phenomena, in other words: not by abstraction.

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Max Bill
Age: 85 †
Born: 1908
Born: January 1
Died: 1994
Died: January 1
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