Name/Title
Gego : weaving the space in betweenEntry/Object ID
N9500.G44.A5 2023Description
"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." -- PUBLISHERLexicon
Search Terms
art--venezula, artist monographs, women artistsBook Details
Author
Mónica Amor, GegoPublisher
Yale University PressDate Published
2023ISBN
9780300260687LCCN
2022942445Notes
Length: 275