Oteiza's Selected Writings
Jorge Oteiza (1908-2003) was one of the principal artists and art theorists of the 20th century. The radical deconstructionism of his formal "disoccupations" of space, considered by many a precursor of minimalism, won him the 1957 Grand International Prize for Sculpture at the Sao Paolo Biennial, the most coveted prize for a sculptor at the time. His second career was as influential as the first, as an art theorist, urbanist, architect, and cultural agitator. His aesthetic education of the Basques laid the cultural groundwork for the building of the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao and he has been heralded by Frank Gehry and Richard Serra as one of the fundamental artists of our time. This anthology presents his theoretical work to the English-speaking world. Distributed for the Center for Basque Studies.