GOERITZ GUIDE

México, D.F: Arquine, 2015. b/w and color plates, bibliographical references, boards. OCLC: 933568138. Item #107427
ISBN: 9786077784951

Painter and sculptor Mathias Goeritz (1915-90) studied arts and crafts, art history and philosophy in interwar Berlin before arriving in Guadalajara in 1949, after stints in Spain and North Africa. It was in Mexico, at the founding of his El Eco Experimental Museum in Mexico City, that Goeritz put forward his principle of "emotional architecture," which would become a driving force of his subsequent work and an important concept in the development of modern art in postwar Latin America -- a theory of architecture, objects and spaces that would stir the emotions rather than resting on bland functionalism and austere aestheticism....This guide assembles 41 public publis works by Goeritz located in three zones of Mexico City, as wellas in Guadalajara, Cuernavaca, Monterrey, Toluca, Acapulco, and Mérida. As Danciel Garzad Usabiaga states in the prolohue. "His output may be described as multi-faceted: monumental sculptures, stained glass windows, murals, designs in wrought iron, designs for offices. We might say that Goeritz was one of the first 'executive artists' in the country, a term used to define art producers that came to be paradigmatic ofthe late twentieth century.

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