Tomás Maldonado in Conversation with María Amalia García
<p>This second publication in the Conversaciones/Conversations series contains a collection of interviews between the Argentine artist, industrial designer and theorist Tomás Maldonado and writer María Amalia García with an essay by Alejandro Crispiani. Maldonado discusses his early work with the avant-garde art movements in Argentina during the 1940s and 50s and his search for a rationalist approach that would later lead him to the world of architecture, design and aesthetic theory.</p> <p>Tomás Maldonado, born in Buenos Aires in 1922, achieved international recognition for his work at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Ulm, Germany, one of the most important European schools of design since the Bauhaus where he was professor and rector from 1954–1967, and for his iconic industrial designs such as those he created for the Italian firm Olivetti. Lesser known is his pioneering role as one of the founders of Arte Concreto-Invención, an Argentinean avant-garde movement characterized by the use of irregular frames, geometric shapes, and a systematic approach to art making.</p>
Authors: Tomás Maldonado, María Amalia García, Alejandro Crispiani
Editors: Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro, Ileen Kohn, Donna Wingate
Project Manager: Satoshi Tabuchi
Researcher: Sara Meadows
Translators: Jen Hofer, Kristina Cordero
Copy Editor: Carrie Cooperider, María Esther Pino, Mariana Barrera-Pieck, Amelia Sosa-Zimerman
Proofreader: Elizabeth Chapple
Part of: Conversaciones/Conversations
ISBN: 9780988205529