Questioning the Line: Gego in Context (International Center for the Arts of the Americas (Series), No. 2.) - Softcover

Ramirez, Mari Carmen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0890901198 ISBN 13: 9780890901199

Publisher: University of Texas Press, 2003

Synopsis

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0890901198
• ISBN 13: 9780890901199
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272