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Mathias Goeritz - Modernist Art and Architecture in Cold War Mexico (Hardcover)
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Mathias Goeritz - Modernist Art and Architecture in Cold War Mexico (Hardcover)
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The first major work in English on Mathias Goeritz (1915-1990),
this book illuminates the artist's pivotal role within the
landscape of twentieth-century modernism. Goeritz became recognized
as an abstract sculptor after arriving in Mexico from Germany by
way of Spain in 1949. His call to integrate abstract forms into
civic and religious architecture, outlined in his "Emotional
Architecture" manifesto, had a transformative impact on midcentury
Mexican art and design. While best known for the experimental
museum El Eco and his collaborations with the architect Luis
Barragan, including the brightly colored towers of Satellite City,
Goeritz also shaped the Bauhaus-inspired curriculum at
Guadalajara's School of Architecture and the iconic Cultural
Program of Mexico City's 1968 Olympic Games. Josten addresses the
Cold War implications of these and other initiatives that pitted
Goeritz, an advocate of internationalist abstraction, against Diego
Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros, ardent defenders of the realist
style that prevailed in official Mexican art during the
postrevolutionary period. Exploring Goeritz's dialogues with
leading figures among the Parisian and New York avant-gardes, such
as Yves Klein and Philip Johnson, Josten shows how Goeritz's
approach to modernism, which was highly attuned to politics and
place, formed part of a global enterprise.
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