Questioning the Line: Gego in Context (International Center for the Arts of the Americas 2) (English and Spanish Edition)

Questioning the Line: Gego in Context (International Center for the Arts of the Americas 2) (English and Spanish Edition) image
ISBN-10:

0890901198

ISBN-13:

9780890901199

Released: Sep 01, 2003
Format: Paperback, 193 pages
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Description:

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 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.












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