Mathias Goeritz

Modernist Art and Architecture in Cold War Mexico

Jennifer Josten

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English

Yale University Press
16 October 2018

Individual architects & architectural firms; History of architecture

The first major work in English on Mathias Goeritz (1915-1990), this book illuminates the artist’s pivotal role within the landscape of twentieth-century modernism. Goeritz became recognized as an abstract sculptor after arriving in Mexico from Germany by way of Spain in 1949. His call to integrate abstract forms into civic and religious architecture, outlined in his “Emotional Architecture” manifesto, had a transformative impact on midcentury Mexican art and design.

While best known for the experimental museum El Eco and his collaborations with the architect Luis Barragán, including the brightly colored towers of Satellite City, Goeritz also shaped the Bauhaus-inspired curriculum at Guadalajara’s School of Architecture and the iconic Cultural Program of Mexico City’s 1968 Olympic Games. Josten addresses the Cold War implications of these and other initiatives that pitted Goeritz, an advocate of internationalist abstraction, against Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros, ardent defenders of the realist style that prevailed in official Mexican art during the postrevolutionary period. Exploring Goeritz’s dialogues with leading figures among the Parisian and New York avant-gardes, such as Yves Klein and Philip Johnson, Josten shows how Goeritz’s approach to modernism, which was highly attuned to politics and place, formed part of a global enterprise.

By: Jennifer Josten
Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 203mm, Spine: 3mm
Weight: 1.411kg
ISBN: 9780300228601
ISBN 10: 0300228600
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 16 October 2018
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jennifer Josten is assistant professor in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh.

Reviews for Mathias Goeritz: Modernist Art and Architecture in Cold War Mexico

"""A terrific subject for our globalist moment.""—Jed Perl, New York Review of Books Winner of the 2020 ALAA-Arvey Foundation Book Award ""Josten's excellent and well-written book fills an important gap in the study of post-war Mexican art.""—Yve-Alain Bois, Institute for Advanced Study “Mathias Goeritz is a vital contribution to the burgeoning scholarship on mid-century Mexican art and cultural politics. Jennifer Josten not only illuminates Goeritz’s contributions to Cold War Mexico, but just as significantly, reveals his importance within artistic circuits across the Americas and the Atlantic.”—Mary Coffey, Dartmouth College “German émigré artist, architect, scholar, and curator Mathias Goeritz’s eventful life and multifaceted career offers a window into the vibrant artistic culture of post-WWII Mexico City with stops in Madrid, New York, Paris, Tangier, and beyond. By foregrounding transnational exchanges and international circuits the book makes a major overture into what it means to write global history of art.”—Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, Yale School of Architecture "