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Nearer / Geiger, Anna Bella., 1974

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Identifier: CC-50089-71150

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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 attended an engraving workshop at the Museo de Arte Moderno, where she began teaching three years later. She returned to New York in 1969 to teach at Columbia University, returning again to Rio in 1970.In the 1970s Geiger, an abstract artist, began to include representational elements into her work, and use photographic engraving, photomontage, assemblage, sculpture, and video. In the 1980s she concentrated on painting, and in the early 1990s on cartographic imagery cast in metal, and iron archive box constructions incorporating plaited metals and hot-wax painting (encaustic). -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Dates

  • Creation: 1974

Creator

Extent

0 See container summary (1 hard cover book (spiral plastic spine) + pages (photocopied) (8 pages) in cover (collaged, label, ink, handwriting)) ; 17.9 x 22.5 x .7 cm

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Physical Location

box shelf

Custodial History

The Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, on loan from Ruth and Marvin A. Sackner and the Sackner Family Partnership.

General

Published: Rio de Janeiro, Brazil : [Publisher not identified]. Nationality of creator: Brazilian. General: 32 copies of 40? total copies. General: Added by: CONV; updated by: MARVIN.

Repository Details

Part of the The Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry Repository

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