Anna Maria Maiolino

About this book

Accompanying the first major American museum retrospective of Anna Maria Maiolinos work this book surveys a prodigious career that has spanned numerous decades genres and themes. Born in Calabria Italy in 1942 Anna Maria Maiolino is one of the leading artists of her generation. Her work reflects the major cultural and political realities of postwar Europe and South America as well as issues of patriarchy feminism and immigration. This book presents her prints drawings sculpture photography video and performance pieces. From her early woodcuts which spoke directly to the tense political atmosphere of her adopted country of Brazil to her introspective works on paperevery aspect of Maiolinos incredibly diverse and accomplished career is presented in exquisite illustrations and with a series of informed and provocative essays.