“Thinking is a revolutionary act”: the artist’s publications of Marie Orensanz
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https://doi.org/10.24310/umatica.2025.v8i8.22249Keywords:
Marie Orensanz; artist’s publication; artist’s book; experimental publishing; artist’s manifestoAbstract
After beginning her career as a painter in the 1960s, in the 1970s and 1980s Argentine artist Marie Orensanz (La Plata, Argentina, 1936) issued a significant number of artist’s publications alongside her sculptural and pictorial practice. These publications, almost always produced in small print runs, were created at a time when the conceptual take that had begun to transform artistic practices in the United States and Europe in the 1960s was expanding and broadening, and many artists were incorporating printed formats into the various media they used for their work. This text analyses Orensanz’s artist’s publications, which have remained relatively unknown until now: editions of postcards, posters and books that, in addition to being closely related to the artist’s drawings, paintings and sculptures, could – and should – also be framed within the general genealogy of artist’s books and experimental publishing.
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Buccellato, L. (2007). Resistencia – transformación. En Marie Orensanz: Obras 1963-2007. Museo de Arte Moderno.
Meisel, H. (2022). Marie Orensanz - Interview with Hélène Meisel. Manuella Éditions.
Orensanz, M. (1975). Transmitir la energía del pensamiento: Una conversación entre Lea Vergine, Marie Orensanz y Gilo Dorfles. Edizioni della Galleria Vinciana.
Orensanz, M. (2023). El fluir del pensamiento. EDUNTREF Centro de Arte Contemporáneo.
Osborne, P., y Piper, A. (2024). Philosophies of conceptual art – Peter Osborne and Adrian Piper in conversation (p. 12). Art Resources Transfer (A.R.T.).
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