Oteiza's selected writings / Jorge Oteiza (1908-2003) edited by Joseba Zulaika ; translated by Frederick Fornoff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oteiza, Jorge de, 1908-2003.

Contributor:

Zulaika, Joseba.

Series:

Occasional papers series (University of Nevada, Reno. Center for Basque Studies) ; no. 9.

Occasional papers series ; 9

Language:

Basque

English

Subjects (All):

Oteiza, Jorge de, 1908-2003--Philosophy.

Oteiza, Jorge de.

Oteiza, Jorge de, 1908-2003--Aesthetics.

Oteiza, Jorge de, 1908-2003.

Art, Basque.

Aesthetics.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

547 pages ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Selected writings

Place of Publication:

Reno : Center for Basque Studies, University of Nevada, [2003]

Summary:

Jorge Oteiza was one of the principal artists and art theorists of the twentieth century. The radical deconstructionism of his formal "disoccupations" of space, considered by many a precursor of minimalism, won his the 1957 Grand International Prize for Sculpture at the Sao Paolo Biennial, the most coveted prize for a sculptor at the time. Soon afterward, however, he concluded, "I no longer need my statues. I am no longer a sculptor." Oteiza then staged a second career as influential as the first, as an art theorist, urbanist, architech, and cultural agitator, turning into a sharmanic and controversial figure. His relentless aesthetic education of the Basques laid the culture groundwork for the building of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. A precursor of "the end of art" and the ethnographic turn, Oteiza has been heralded by Frank Gehry and Richard Serra as one of the fundamental artists of our time. He is now being honored by a series of international exhibits.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1877802433

1877802441

OCLC:

51985986