In a cloud, in a wall, in a chair : six modernists in Mexico at midcentury /
"This stunning book unites for the first time the pioneering work of six artists and designers: Clara Porset, Lola Álvarez Bravo, Anni Albers, Ruth Asawa, Cynthia Sargent, Sheila Hicks. Inspired by both local traditions and modern methods, these women made art that reflected and contributed to...
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| Language: | English |
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Chicago, Illinois :
The Art Institute of Chicago,
[2019]
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| ISBN: | 9780300247053 0300247052 |
Table of Contents:
- There is design in everything / Zoë Ryan
- Clara Porset and the politics of design / Randal Sheppard
- A friendship formed by a chair : Clara Porset and Esther McCoy / Christina L. De León
- A Mexican perspective on modernity : Lola Álvarez Bravo's photomurals / Johanna Spanke
- Mexico's forgotten muralist : Lola Álvarez Bravo and photomurals in the 1950s / James Oles
- Making the timeless : Anni Albers, Mesoamerican sculpture, and the thing itself / Erica Warren
- Lessons in transparency : Ruth Asawa in Mexico / Ann Reynolds
- Textile memories : Cynthia Sargent / Ana Elena Mallet
- La Brava : Sheila Hicks in Mexico / Glenn Adamson.