Tomás Maldonado in conversation with / in conversation with María Amalia García
María Amalia García
ISBN: 978-0-9823544-3-8
Year: 2010
Pages: 136
Illustrations: 72
Binding:
Size: 15.5 x 23.5 cm
Published by: New York; Caracas, Cisneros Foundation; Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection
This publication, the second in the Conversaciones/Conversations series, contains a collection of interviews between the artist, industrial designer, and theorist Tomás Maldonado and the writer María Amalia García, with an essay by Alejandro Crispiani. Maldonado recounts his work with avant-garde movements in Argentina in the 1940s and 1950s, and his search for a rational methodology that would later lead him to the world of architecture, design, and aesthetic theory.
Tomás Maldonado, born in Buenos Aires in 1922, gained international recognition for his work at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Ulm, Germany, one of the most important European design schools after the Bauhaus, where he served as a teacher, theorist of the new curriculum, and dean from 1954 to 1967, and for his work as a designer for Olivetti. However, his important role as one of the founders of the Argentine avant-garde movement Arte-Concreto Invención (Concrete Art and Invention), characterized by the use of irregular frames, geometric forms, and a systematic approach to art production, is less well known.
Tomás Maldonado in conversation with / in conversation with María Amalia García
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