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Site-Specific Art at The New School

Site-Specific Art at The New School

Main Themes, Keywords

architecture and sculpture, Universal Constructivism, homo ludens, play, art and life, design, Bauhaus, Latin-American art in New York, transnationalism, modern art in Latin America, European hegemony in art, Pre-Columbian, El Taller Torres-García, mosaic

New School Exhibitions and Events

Press release announcing the first exhibition of the El Taller Torres-García in the United States, opening at The New School on (December 12, 1960), The New School Publicity Office records, NS.03.01.02, box 14, folder 23, The New School Archives and Special Collections, The New School, New York, New York.

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Historical Context

Nicolas Birns, “Growing Up at The New School in the 1960s and ’70s,” article on the New School History website

Isabel Fonseca, “The House on West 11th Street,” article in the New York Times Magazine, November 14, 2014

Short video accompanying the New York Times Magazine article

Selected Readings

More about Gonzalo Fonseca

Gonzalo Fonseca: Membra Disjecta & A Life in Stone. A film by Michael Gregory. Available on Amazon

Pérez-Oramas, Luis, ed. Joaquín Torres-García: The Arcadian Modern. New York: MoMA Publications, 2015.

The Sculpture of Gonzalo Fonseca, exhibition at the Noguchi Museum, New York, October 25, 2017–March 11, 2018.

Gonzalo Fonseca

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