Research Catalog

Title

Hersúa : obras/escultura, persona/sociedad / Juan Acha.

Author

Acha, Juan.

Publication

México : Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Coordinación de Humanidades, 1983.

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Details

Description

207 pages : illustrations (some color); 28 cm

Summary

Hersúa (Jesús Hernández Suárez, Ciudad Obregón Sonora, México, 1940), is one of the Latin American sculptors with worldwide projection given the importance of his work according to the analysis carried out by the art theorist Juna Acha. His work transcends the representativeness of the human figure to an abstract geometry concerned with the relationship of the human being withreal space. Within the collection that triggers his artistic work, the following stand out: He participated -along with other noted artists- in the first stage of the Espacio Escultórico of the Ciudad Universitaria de la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), he is the founder of the first experimental group on new visual trends ±Other Art, exhibits as co-author of the first geographic poem in Latin America with the group ±Arte Otro at the E.N.A.P. of the U.N.A.M. He represented Mexico with the work ±Urban Environment at the VI Biennial of Young Artists, Paris, France (1969).

Subject

• Hersúa
• Sculptors > Mexico > Biography
• Sculpteurs > Mexique > Biographies
• Sculptors
• Mexico

Genre/Form

Biographies

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page 169).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introducción -- 1. Las obras -- 2. La sociedad mexicana (1940-1982) -- 3. La escultura -- 4. El autor, el hombre, el artista -- Anexos -- Curriculum vitae, Hersúa -- Manifiesto de Arte Otro.

ISBN

• 9685806519
• 9789685806510

LCCN

84152458

OCLC

• 11372293
• SCSB-10395186

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library