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Titre(s) : Untangling the Web [Texte imprimé] : Gego's Reticulárea : an anthology of critical response / edited by Mari Carmen Ramírez and Melina Kervandjian ; organized by María Elena Huizi and Ester Crespín
Publication : Houston : Museum Fine Arts, Houston, ©2013
Description matérielle : 359 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
Contributions in English and Spanish
"Gego (1912-1994) pioneered a new direction in art with her innovative sculptures
of the 1960s and 1970s. Born in Germany as Gertrud Goldschmidt, she fled the Nazi
regime and moved to Caracas, Venezuela, where she absorbed modernist trends but ultimately
forged her own artistic path. Exploring the concept of the line, space, and time,
she linked pieces of metal to create weblike geometric forms, which she called "drawings
in space." These experiments culminated in Reticulárea, a massive netlike sculptural
installation first presented at the Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, in 1969. This
groundbreaking work had major repercussions in the art world and marked a turning
point in Gego's career. Centered on the various iterations of this work and its artistic
impact, this anthology--published on the one-hundredth anniversary of Gego's birth--brings
together images as well as documentary materials and primary texts in English and
Spanish by artists, writers, and Gego" ; "This bilingual anthology of a broad range
of writings focusing on the German-born, Venezuelan artist Gego's masterpiece Reticulárea
(1969) critically considers the influential role of this seminal work and its variants
in her oeuvre, as well as in late 20th-century and early 21st-century artistic thought
and practice"
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Ramírez, Mari Carmen (1955-....). Éditeur scientifique
Kervandjian, Melina. Éditeur scientifique
Autre(s) forme(s) du titre :
- Titre(s) parallèle(s) : Desenredando la red : La Reticulárea
de Gego : Antología de respuestas criticas
- Autre forme du titre : Gego's Reticulárea
Sujet(s) : Gego (1912-1994) -- Critique et interprétation
Installations (art)
Indice(s) Dewey :
709.2 (23e éd.) = Beaux-arts et arts décoratifs - Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780300166132. - ISBN 0300166133 (hardback)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43523429q
Notice n° :
FRBNF43523429
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