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Sebastian : half a century of artistic creation

Title: Sebastian : half a century of artistic creation / editor, Héctor Tajonar ; English translation and copy editing, Debra Nagao.
Publication: Ciudad de México : Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México : Fundación Sebastian, 2017.

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Description

418 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles, portraits; 34 cm

Summary

Monumental editorial work that comprises essays from historians, scientists, writers and critics in tribute to 50 years of artistic career and 70 years of life of sculptor, industrial designer and architect, Sebastian (Chihuahua 1947).

Alternative Title

Half a century of artistic creation

Subjects

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

Limited edition of 500 copies.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Sebastian : half a century of artistic creation / Enrique Graue Wiechers -- Introduction / Héctor Tajonar -- With an intuition and a vision / Sebastian -- THE SCIENTIFIC GAZE -- Sebastian : sculptor / Roger Penrose -- Sebastian : geometries of science and art / José Gordon -- Mathematics, art and Sebastian / Herbert A. Hauptman -- Geometric beauty / Alfred S. Posamentier -- Teaching and leaving a mark / Sebastian -- Sculptures : on the heavens and on Earth / Mario Livio -- On Sebastianʹs parallel universes and Quanta / Isidoro Gitler y Enrique Reyes -- In the pursuit of destiny and dreams / Sebastian -- Sebastian, artist in different universes / Guillermo Eguiarte -- Sculpture, architecture and mathematics / Isidoro Gitler -- THE HISTORICAL GAZE -- Sebastianʹs emotional geometry / Lynn Gamwell -- Shape, space, art, architecture / Michele Emmer -- Sebastianʹs turbulent hospitable universe / Ida Rodríguez Prampolini -- Sebastian or the transfiguration of geometry / Manuel R. Mora -- To keep creation flowing / Sebastian -- THE LITERARY GAZE -- Sebastian the great / Víctor Hugo Rascón Banda -- Geometry lesson / Alberto Blanco -- [If you unfold a piece of the world] / Roberto Vallarino -- Poem / Roberto Vallarino -- The eagle : Sebastian's sculpture / Dionicio Morales -- Sebastian, magician of the universe / Ignacio Solares -- To speak Sebastian / Matias Carbajal -- Everyone has their own universe / Sebastian -- Timeline -- List of works.

Call Number

JQG 19-276

ISBN

9786070297984
6070297989

LCCN

2018402159

OCLC

1033412841

Title

Sebastian : half a century of artistic creation / editor, Héctor Tajonar ; English translation and copy editing, Debra Nagao.

Publisher

Ciudad de México : Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México : Fundación Sebastian, 2017.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

still image

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Chronological Term

1900-2099

Added Author

Sebastián, 1947- Sculptures. Selections.

Tajonar, Héctor, editor.

Nagao, Debra, translator.

Fundación Sebastián, issuing body.

Research Call Number

JQG 19-276

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