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Description: Gego: Weaving the Space in Between
BOOKGego: Weaving the Space in Between
Mónica Amor
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-31663
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.

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Author
Mónica Amor
PublisherYale University Press
Print publication date April 2023 (in print)
Print ISBN 9780300260687
EISBN 9780300278125
Copyright© 2023 by Mónica Amor
Illustrations 172
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List of illustrations

  • Reticulárea, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas
  • Drawing without Paper 76/1 (Dibujo sin papel 76/1)
  • Drawing without Paper 79/20 (Dibujo sin papel 79/20)
  • Drawing without Paper 79/18 (Dibujo sin papel 79/18)
  • Technical drawing for metal screens for Quinta El Urape
  • Sketch of concrete screen blocks on the ground floor and garden of the Instituto de Medicina Tropical, Proyecto Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas
  • Plastic elements used against sun and rain (Elementos plásticos utilizados en defensa contra los elementos (sol y lluvia))
  • El Silencio, Caracas
  • Quinta El Urape, Caracas
  • Centro Simón Bolívar, Caracas
  • Perceven advertisement with illustration of Alejandro Otero's metal screen
  • Colorhythm 36 (Coloritmo 36)
  • Cover of Los Disidentes
  • Colored Lines on White Background (Líneas coloreadas sobre fondo blanco)
  • The White Pitcher and the Brown Shovel (El pote blanco y la pala marrón)
  • Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo, Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas
  • Alejandro Otero (standing), Miguel Arroyo (seated), and Gaston Diehl (front right) in front of Otero's temporary dwelling, El Toronjil, San Antonio de Los Altos
  • Sistema de Nacionalidad, Paseo de los Próceres and Círculo Militar de Caracas
  • Cover of Integral
  • Plaza Cubierta, Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas
  • Access Ramps, Facultad de Humanidades y Educación/Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Jurídicas, Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas
  • Analysis of Functions (Análisis de las funciones) Diagram
  • Cantilevered vault of the covered access corridor from Plaza Venezuela, Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas
  • Ramps leading to the top floor of the Aula Magna, Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas
  • Access corridor, Biblioteca Central, Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas
  • West ramp, access to the Aula Magna, Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas
  • Positive/Negative (Positivo/Negativo), Plaza Cubierta, Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas
  • Clouds (Nubes), Aula Magna, Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas
  • Sketches for Clouds (Nubes)
  • Aula Magna, view from the balcony, Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas
  • Jesús Soto with his work Spirale (1955), in front of a work by Richard Mortensen
  • Movement and Vibration in Space: Sculpture by Gego
  • Twelve Concentric Circles (Doce círculos concéntricos)
  • Metal Alive: A Sculpture by Gego
  • Das Lichtrequisit
  • Gego with her uncle Adolph Goldschmidt, Hamburg
  • View from the tower of the Höhenrestaurant, Weissenhof Siedlung, Stuttgart
  • Railway Station, Stuttgart
  • Boarding house for immigrants in Kent (final thesis)
  • Gego and Gerd Leufert in Tarma (El Tambo house)
  • Cruz del Sur bookshop
  • Tecoteca advertisement
  • Centro Profesional del Este, Bello Monte, Caracas
  • Talleres Fulop advertisement
  • Evolución y finalidad de las artes plásticas
  • Structure for posters, Centro Profesional del Este, Caracas
  • Cristanac advertisement
  • Morollón Advertisement
  • Vibration in Black (Vibración en negro)
  • A page from Gego's answers to Jack Larsen and Mildred Constantine's questionnaire
  • Gego's copy of Beyond Craft: The Art Fabric
  • Detail of Gego's Reticulárea individual No. 2 (part of the Reticulárea ambiental of 1969)
  • Gego's copy of the catalogue for Anni Albers' exhibition Pictorial Weavings
  • Cover of the catalogue for the exhibition Formas tejidas (Woven Forms)
  • Installation weavings by Lenore Tawney in the exhibition Woven Forms
  • Interlaced Black and White (Entrelazado en blanco y negro)
  • View of the exhibition Tapices de Olga de Amaral (Tapestries of Olga Amaral)
  • Sketch for Neumann Rug (Alfombra Neumann)
  • Loma Verde Rug (Alfombra Loma Verde)
  • Gerd Leufert behind a reticulárea
  • Gego installing the Reticulárea at the Center for Inter-American Relations, New York
  • Installation sketch for the Reticulárea at the Center for Inter-American Relations, New York
  • Françoise Grossen in her studio, Greene Street, Manhattan, New York
  • Logbook of artworks: Bichos: 1957–1971
  • Logbook of artworks: Bichos: 1971–1984
  • Logbook of artworks: Bichos: 1985–1989
  • Installation sketch for the Reticulárea, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas
  • Reticulárea
  • Brochure with insert published on the occasion of the exhibition Reticulárea, at Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas
  • Page from the exhibition brochure Reticulárea, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas
  • Spatial Element (Élément Spatial)
  • Student file of Gertrud Goldschmidt at the Helene Lange School, Hamburg
  • Candleholder designed by Gego and realized by Naum Slutsky
  • Chair
  • Miguel Arroyo at the pottery workshop of the Escuela de Artes Plásticas y Artes Aplicadas, Caracas
  • Cover of Cruz del Sur
  • Undefined and Modifiable (Triptych) (Indefinido y Modificable (Tríptico))
  • The Tree (El Árbol)
  • Painting tools made by Armando Reverón
  • Students' work for Gego's Basic Composition Course at the Facultad de Arquitectura y Urbanismo—FAU, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Caracas
  • Notas geo-etnográficas sobre los indios piaroas
  • Gego in her working space in Bello Monte, Caracas
  • Anfiteatro José Ángel Lamas (known as Concha Acústica de Bello Monte), Caracas
  • Alejandro Otero on the construction site of the Anfiteatro José Ángel Lamas (known as Concha Acústica de Bello Monte), Caracas
  • Cristanac workers making Otero's Mural I at the Anfiteatro José Ángel Lamas (known as Concha Acústica de Bello Monte), Caracas
  • Fabricación de mosaico vidrioso en Venezuela
  • Gego
  • Gego in her studio
  • Sketch for the construction of net #18H for the Reticulárea
  • Detail of Gego's Drawing without Paper (Dibujo sin papel)
  • Articulations illustrated in Hanni Ossott, Gego
  • Detail of Gego's Reticulárea individual No. 2 (part of the Reticulárea ambiental of 1969)
  • Reticulárea, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas
  • Reticulárea, Galería de Arte Nacional, Caracas
  • Manual Reticulárea: Sala Gego, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas
  • Gego working in her home studio
  • Reticulárea
  • Wow Bush/Turmoil in Full Bloom
  • Act 8: A Manipulable Canopy
  • Free-Hanging Room Divider
  • Note on the Reticulárea
  • Teaching notes for classes at the Instituto de Diseño
  • Reticulárea
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  • Two Disks (Dos discos)
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  • Series of Seven—Two pieces of the set (Serie de Siete—Dos piezas del conjunto)
  • Lines—Grouping (Líneas—Conjunto)
  • Little White Structure (Pequeña estructura blanca)
  • Lines
  • Gego at Tamarind, Los Angeles
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  • Weaving (Tecelar)
  • Little Black Poem (Pequeña poema negro)
  • Notes for the Reticulárea
  • Green Notebook (Cuaderno verde)
  • Cuerdas, Parque Central, Caracas
  • Orientation sketch for Cuerdas
  • Reticulárea between Buildings (sketch)
  • Scale Model for Centro Residencial El Conde
  • Construction of Parque Central, Caracas
  • Torre Cedíaz
  • Imagen de Caracas's Device City (Dispositivo Ciudad), El Conde, Caracas
  • Imagen de Caracas, Caracas
  • Hydrochromatic Waterwheel (Noria Hidrocromática)
  • Cuerdas, Parque Central, Caracas
  • Cuerdas (definitive project)
  • Caracas a través de su arquitectura
  • Chromatic Environment (Ambientación Cromática)
  • Installation of Chorros at Galería Conkright, Caracas
  • Cuerdas, Chorros, and Esferas at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Caracas
  • Chorro-Reticulárea
  • Installation of Chorros and Esferas at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Caracas
  • Sphere No. 6 (Esfera No. 6), Installation at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Caracas
  • IDDEAS: Revista de Diseño y Comunicación Visual
  • Tronco No. 5; Tronco No. 3; Tronco No. 6
  • Square Reticulárea 71/5 (Reticulárea cuadrada 71/5)
  • Gego and Gerd Leufert at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Caracas
  • Sphere No. 8 (Esfera No. 8)
  • Untitled
  • Bichito 89/29
  • Gego and architect Dix Branch on the terrace of her apartment
  • Drawing without paper 85/5 (Dibujo sin papel 85/5)
  • Drawing without Paper 86/13 (Dibujo sin papel 86/13)
  • Weaving 88/8 (Tejedura 88/8)
  • Weaving 88/10 (Tejedura 88/10)
  • Weaving 88/11 (Tejedura 88/11)
  • Weaving 90/58 (Tejedura 90/58)
  • Weaving 89/13 (Tejedura 89/13)
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Acknowledgments
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Gego: Weaving the Space in Between
I am pretty sure I was on a plane when I wrote the acknowledgments for my first book. It is the case, on this second occasion, maybe because the view from above metaphorically offers us, as historians, a better perspective, recollection, and insight into the diverse agencies that contribute to the long durée of research, writing, and publishing. I...
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Introduction: Edge
Mónica Amor
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Gego: Weaving the Space in Between
In 1994 the late art critic and curator Lourdes Blanco wrote that “one day it will be determined with precision how Gertrude Goldschmidt assumed its magic conversion in Gego and how from within the method and...
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Mónica Amor
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2023 by Mónica Amor
Related print edition pages: pp.1-13
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Chapter subject tags:Gego, 1912-1994Art, Venezuelan--20th centuryLatin American women artistsCaracas (Venezuela)--History--20th centuryGego. Reticulárea (1969)Art, Latin American--20th centuryLatin American women artists--20th century

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1. Parallax
Mónica Amor
Description: Gego: Weaving the Space in Between
Gego: Weaving the Space in Between
A technical drawing dated 1948 for a window screen designed by Gego, for the sprawling house she would briefly occupy with her husband and family between 1949 and 1951, features a simple curvilinear shape of undulating lines (fig. 5). The open beehive pattern, uniform and continuous, was materialized in wrought iron and used by the engineer/architect...
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Mónica Amor
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2023 by Mónica Amor
Related print edition pages: pp.15-71
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Chapter subject tags:Gego, 1912-1994Ciudad Universitaria de CaracasArt, Venezuelan--20th centuryArt, Latin American--20th centuryArchitecture, Latin American--20th centuryGeometric abstraction--Latin America--20th centuryOtero, Alejandro, 1921-1990Villanueva, Carlos Raúl, 1900-1975Los DisidentesLatin American women artists--20th century

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2. Weaving
Mónica Amor
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Gego: Weaving the Space in Between
In April 1970, on stationery stamped with her name in elongated letters, Gego retyped questions posed by curators Mildred Constantine and Jack Lenor Larsen in the context of research...
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Mónica Amor
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2023 by Mónica Amor
Related print edition pages: pp.73-143
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Chapter subject tags:Gego, 1912-1994Gego. Reticulárea (1969)Art, Latin American--20th centuryWall hangings--Latin America--20th centuryFiberwork--Latin America--20th centuryAlbers, AnniAmaral, Olga deBauhausLatin American women artists--20th century

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3. Lines
Mónica Amor
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Gego: Weaving the Space in Between
In 1977, on the occasion of Gego’s major retrospective at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas (MACC), the artist and her friend the poet Hanni Ossot set out to organize and conceptualize her three-dimensional work for a book that was to accompany the exhibition. In the preparatory chronology and the final publication, little was written or said about the hundreds of drawings,...
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Mónica Amor
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2023 by Mónica Amor
Related print edition pages: pp.145-217
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Chapter subject tags:Gego, 1912-1994Drawing, Venezuelan--20th centuryPrints, Venezuelan--20th centuryArt, Venezuelan--20th centuryGeometric abstraction--Latin America--20th centuryArt, Latin American--20th centuryLatin American women artists--20th century

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Conclusion: Residues
Mónica Amor
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Gego: Weaving the Space in Between
Before I end this incomplete narrative, there are other threads to weave—not so much with the aim of arriving at a conclusion...
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Mónica Amor
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2023 by Mónica Amor
Related print edition pages: pp.219-237
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Chapter subject tags:Gego, 1912-1994Art, Venezuelan--20th centuryFiberwork--Latin America--20th centuryArt, Latin American--20th centuryLatin American women artistsGeometric abstraction--Latin America--20th century

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