Gego : weaving the space in between / Mónica Amor.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Amor, Monica, author.

Contributor:

Gego.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gego--Criticism and interpretation.

Gego.

Art and design.

Art, Venezuelan.

Women artists--Venezuela.

Women artists.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xi, 275 pages : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 29 cm

Other Title:

Weaving the space in between

Place of Publication:

New Haven ; London : Yale University Press, [2023]

Summary:

"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"-- Publisher's description.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-262) and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Gift of the publisher.

ISBN:

0300260687

9780300260687

OCLC:

1346946996