Date of Award
Winter 12-21-2015
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Art
First Advisor
Professor Lynda Klich
Second Advisor
Professor Harper Montgomery
Academic Program Adviser
Professor Nebahat Avcıoğlu
Abstract
This thesis traces Gego’s contestation of art historical modernism through examining her relationship to the modernist grid and to her modernist genealogy of Constructivism, Geometric Abstraction, and Kineticism. These two nonlinear developments subvert the teleological conception of progress presumed by Greenbergian modernism, and bring forth Gego’s own aesthetic conception of temporality.
Recommended Citation
Fedrigotti, Victoria L., "Modernism Contested: Gego's Grids and the Aesthetics of Temporality" (2015). CUNY Academic Works.
https://academicworks.cuny.edu/hc_sas_etds/14
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