Tomás Maldonado in Conversation with María Amalia García (Hardcover)
The Fundaci n Cisneros' new Conversaciones series is dedicated to the exchange of ideas between artists and authors. This second publication in the series contains a collection of interviews between the Argentine-born artist, industrial designer and theorist Tom's Maldonado and writer Mar a Amalia Garc a. Maldonado established his reputation while a professor at the Hochschule f r Gestaltung in Ulm, Germany. Under his leadership, the school functioned as an extraordinary laboratory of design and a center of talent until 1968. More than 20 years after its closing, Ulm is still considered one of the most important European schools of design since the Bauhaus. Mar a Amalia Garc a is an accomplished art historian, who has written extensively on abstract art in Argentina and Brazil.