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Silver seduction : the art of Mexican modernist Antonio Pineda : from the collection of Cindy Tietze and Stuart Hodosh by Gobi Stromberg; with an essay by Ana Elena Mallet is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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Antonio Pineda (b. 1919) is renowned for translating design elements evocative of Mexico's past into often-astounding modernist silver jewelry, sculpture, and tableware. Perhaps more than any of his talented counterparts, he has been able to abstract and refine, producing elegant, spare, and geometric works that evidence a profound respect for the wearer. Pineda was also instrumental in the formation of the Taxco School of silver design. The over two hundred remarkable Pineda objects illustrated in this volume reflect the artist's intense imagination and quest for technical perfection. While focusing on Pineda's art from the 1930s through the 1970s, author Gobi Stromberg also places his career and the development of the Taxco School in context. She considers how a particular set of historical, political, cultural, social, and economic factors facilitated meetings between Mexican and American artists, intellectuals, writers, Hollywood stars, and musicians; spawned the building of roads opening up remote Mexican villages to a growing influx of U.S. tourists and expatriates of every stripe; encouraged a focus upon Mexico's glorious Pre-Columbian heritage and the legacy of its indigeno

Author

Gobi Stromberg; with an essay by Ana Elena Mallet

Publisher

Los Angeles: Fowler Museum at UCLA

Published

2008

Language

EN

ISBN

9780977834402

Subjects

Art, History, Arts