“THINKING IS A REVOLUTIONARY ACT”: ARTIST’S PUBLICATIONS BY MARIE ORENSANZ

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  • Mela Dávila Freire

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.57871/fkw7720261774

Abstract

ABSTRACT______After beginning her career as a painter in the 1960s, Argentine artist Marie Orensanz published various artist’s publications in the 1970s and 1980s, in parallel to her sculptural and painterly work, which remain relatively unknown. This essay examines a selection of these artworks that formally consist of printed matter. Against the backdrop of oppression and political violence by a dictatorial government in Argentina in the 1960s and 1970s, there was a strong need in Argentine art to address communication and its systems as one of the fields of art. Orensanz shared this desire, and her publications, which range from manifestos to posters and brochures to books, sometimes appearing in editions and sometimes as original works, draw on this impulse, enriched by diverse influences from her long stays in various European cities.

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2026-07-29