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Geiger, Anna Bella

 Person

Dates

  • Existence: 1933-04-04-

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Nearer / Geiger, Anna Bella., 1974

 Item
Identifier: CC-50089-71150
Scope and Contents The pages depict a switchblade knife photographed with increasing progressive close-ups. There is no text except for the final page that reads "nearer to the edge." Hellion in her catalogue " "Libros de Artista - Artist's Books: Tomo 1" (2003) does not depict not list this book although she does so for the other two Geiger book held by the Sackner Archive.Wikipedia: Anna Bella Geiger, (born 1933, Rio de Janeiro,) is a Brazilian multi-disciplinary artist of Jewish-Polish ancestry,[1] and professor at the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage. She lives in Rio de Janeiro, and her work, characterized by the use of different media, is held by galleries and private collections in the USA, China, Brazil and Europe. Geiger first graduated in literature and language, and later in the 1950s, studied art at Rio's Instituto Fayga Ostrower. She moved to New York in 1954 where she took classes in Art History at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, returning to Rio the following year. In 1965 she...
Dates: 1974

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