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Author | : Monica Amor |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2023-04-04 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0300260687 |
An authoritative study of Gego, whose distinctive modernist practice sits at the intersection of architecture, design, and the visual arts This important book is the first extended study of the life and work of German-born Venezuelan artist Gertrude Goldschmidt (1912-94), known as Gego. In locating the artist's contribution to postwar art and her important place in the global conversations around modernity, Mónica Amor explores her intermedial practice as a model of cultural complexity at the "edge of modernity." In situating Gego's work alongside other local archives and against her European education and global reception, Amor offers a monographic model that complicates traditional approaches to history. She investigates the full range of Gego's work, including her furniture workshop, her teaching at schools of architecture and design, her seminal reticuláreas, and her lesser-known prints. Through rigorous archival research, formal analysis, theoretical relevance, and deep exploration of historical context, this essential book unpacks Gego's radical recasting of the modern sculptural project through her engagement with architecture, craft, and design pedagogy.
Author | : Gego |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780890901199 |
From the late 1950s until the 1980s, the German-born Venezuelan artist Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt) made drawings, prints, three-dimensional works, hanging-net pieces (reticulareas), and wire constructions (drawings without paper) of extraordinary quality. Taken as a whole, these works illustrate the issue at the core of her production: the liberation of line from volume and form into space. Though little known outside of Latin America, Gego's work enjoyed a dialogue with twentieth-century artists and movements active not only in Venezuela, but also worldwide. In a series of essays examining her art in relation to Modernism, Informalism, kinetic art, and other tendencies, this volume--the second in the MFAH International Center for the Arts of the Americas series--situates Gego in her international context.
Author | : Héctor Olea Galaviz |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 618 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0300102690 |
In the twentieth century, avant-garde artists from Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean created extraordinary and highly innovative paintings, sculptures, assemblages, mixed-media works, and installations. This innovative book presents more than 250 works by some seventy of these artists (including Gego, Joaquin Torres-Garcia, Xul Solar, and Jose Clemente Orozco) and artists' groups, along with interpretive essays by leading authorities and newly translated manifestoes and other theoretical documents written by the artists. Together the images and texts showcase the astonishing artistic achievements of the Latin American avant-garde. The book focuses on two decisive periods: the return from Europe in the 1920s of Latin American avant-garde pioneers; and the expansion of avant-garde activities throughout Latin America after World War II as artists expressed their independence from developments in Europe and the United States. As the authors explain, during these periods Latin American art was fueled by the belief that artistic creations could present a form of utopia - an inversion of the original premise that drove the European avant-garde - and serve as a model for
Author | : Gego |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
German-born Venezuelan artist Gego produced a wide range of line based abstract work. This text traces her exploration of line and space and her attempts to make visible the invisible. By manipulating the density of lines or by interrupting them, she brought light, shadow and feeling into her linear works.
Author | : Gego |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : |
The book is the most detailed examination of Gego's art published in English to date. With never-before-translatedhistorical texts, interviews, and in-depth analyses by scholars working in a range of disciplines
Author | : M—nica Amor |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2016-03-15 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0520286626 |
"Theories of the Nonobject investigates the crisis of the sculptural and painterly object in the concrete, neoconcrete, and constructivist practices of artists in Argentina, Brazil, and Venezuela, with case studies of specific movements, artists, and critics. Amor traces their role in the significant reconceptualization of the artwork that Brazilian critic and poet Ferreira Gullar heralded in 'Theory of the Nonobject' in 1959, with specific attention to a group of major art figures including Lygia Clark, Hélio Oiticica, and Gego, whose work proposed engaged forms of spectatorship that dismissed medium-based understandings of art. Exploring the philosophical, economic, and political underpinnings of geometric abstraction in post-World War II South America, Amor highlights the overlapping inquiries of artists and critics who, working on the periphery of European and US modernism, contributed to a sophisticated conversation about the nature of the art object"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Margaret Davidson |
Publisher | : Watson-Guptill |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2011-04-19 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0823033155 |
Drawing is experiencing an unparalleled surge in the art world. Passé notions that once defined drawing as being a preparatory stage for painting or sculpture have long since been cast aside. Drawing is now fully recognized as its own art form—in the biennials, art fairs, museum exhibitions, and beyond. Drawing has come of age. Contemporary artists are increasingly discovering that drawing is something unique and different from painting. It is an intense, sensitive, compelling, personal, and utterly direct art form, one with its own concepts, characteristics, and techniques. In addition, contemporary drawing is not governed by any particular imagery, but rather encompasses a variety of approaches, including realist, abstract, modernist, and post-modernist. Contemporary Drawing delves into the essential and far-reaching concepts of this medium, exploring surface, mark, space, composition, scale, materials, and intentionality in turn. Key techniques, such as using nature to induce marks and working with a checklist to determine a drawing’s problems, are introduced throughout. Plus, an in-depth chapter examines a number of artists, such as William Kentridge and Gego, who are breaking traditional boundaries that separate one artistic discipline from another. Lushly illustrated by a wide range of highly accomplished contemporary artists, Contemporary Drawing offers a broad perspective on this expansive and energized field of art.
Author | : Deborah Wye |
Publisher | : The Museum of Modern Art |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 9780870701252 |
Volume covers the Collection of Prints and Illustrated Books, not the collection of artists' books.
Author | : John Jessen |
Publisher | : Strategic Book Publishing |
Total Pages | : 397 |
Release | : 2010-07-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1609765354 |
A chronology of travels all over the globe in every major country written by a successful businessman.
Author | : Kaira M. Cabañas |
Publisher | : University of California Press |
Total Pages | : 239 |
Release | : 2021-02-16 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0520356225 |
A new reality for the art object has emerged in the world of contemporary art: it is now experienced less as an autonomous, inanimate form and more as an active material agent. In this book, Kaira M. Cabañas describes how such a shift in conceptions of art’s materiality came to occur, exploring key artistic practices in Venezuela, Brazil, and Western Europe from the mid-twentieth century to the present. Immanent Vitalities expands the discourse of new materialisms by charting how artists, ranging from Gego to Laura Lima, distance themselves from dualisms such as mind-matter, culture-nature, human-nonhuman, and even Western–non-Western in order to impact our understanding of what is animate. Tracing migrations of people, objects, and ideas between South America and Europe, Cabañas historicizes changing perceptions about art’s agency while prompting readers to remain attentive to the ethical dimensions of materiality and of social difference and lived experience.