Reference monograph dedicated to Romanian artist Geta Brătescu, one of the most remarkable personalities of the
Eastern European postwar avant-garde.
The main part of the publication comprises visual materials and texts written by Geta Brătescu that span several decades of her activity, outlining the exceptional manner in which she has appropriated the lesson of modernism and interrelated it with conceptual challenges. Brătescu focuses on the artistic process, advancing a multidisciplinary approach by using various media: film, happening, tapestry, engraving, collage, objects, and text. The book comes as a result of long-term research conducted in the artist's archive. It contains theoretical contributions that track the multilayered dialectics of Brătescu's work: from the remarkable conceptualization of the act of drawing to the crucial role advocated by the studio, from the preoccupation with self-representation and seriality to the subtle diffusion of theatricality in her work.
A pioneer of
conceptual art in Romania, multidisciplinary artist Geta Brătescu (1926-2018) represented Romania at the 2017 Venice Biennale.
Edited by Alina Şerban.
Contributions by Anca Arghir, Geta Brătescu, Silvia Eiblmayr, Adrian Guţă, Magda Radu, Alina Şerban, Magdalena Ziółkowska.
Graphic design: Arnold Estefan.
published in February 2014
English edition
21 x 27 cm (hardcover, cloth binding)
352 pages (146 color & 175 b/w ill.)
ISBN : 978-3-95679-016-4
EAN : 9783956790164
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