Maruja Mallo - Mask and Compass
Maruja Mallo - Mask and Compass
| Author | P. Molins; J. Hedva; A. Zanetta; J. Pérez de Ayala |
|---|---|
| Publisher | This Side Up |
| ISBN | 9788412993394 |
| Idea Code | 250611 |
This ambitious monograph on Spanish surrealist artist Maruja Mallo (1902–1995) appears with a retrospective exhibition organised by Museo Reina Sofía and Centro Botín. Through numerous paintings and drawings, plus texts and photographs by the artist, the book traces her entire career, from the new realism of her early years to the geometric and fantastical forms of her later works, highlighting how popular culture, performance, and magic permeated her early pieces and underscoring her connections to theatre. It also explores the transformations following the Spanish Civil War and her exile to Buenos Aires, where her portraits and still lifes reflected her new surroundings. Maruja Mallo (Viveiro, Galicia, 1902 – Madrid, 1995) was a leading artist of Spanish avant-garde and Surrealism, as well as one of the central figures of the "Generation of '27", an important group of artists and writers based in Madrid, which included Rafael Alberti, Salvador Dalí, Federico Garcia Lorca and Luis Buñuel. Her vibrant and diverse artistic output blurred the boundaries between the popular and the avant-garde, between aesthetics and politics, ultimately presenting a feminine worldview from the unprecedented perspective of the modern woman.
| 276 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 32 cm, hb, Spanish/English |
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