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City University of New York (CUNY)

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2020

Los Angeles

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Somewhere Between Distance And Intimacy: Vija Celmins In California 1962-1981, Jessie Lebowitz Jan 2020

Somewhere Between Distance And Intimacy: Vija Celmins In California 1962-1981, Jessie Lebowitz

Theses and Dissertations

During her nineteen years spent in California (1962-81), the young Vija Celmins formulated a distinct landscape informed by California’s physical topography as well as the stylistic and materialistic advances resulting from the city’s newfound cultural awakening. With an intimate technical application, Celmins engages viewers with the spatial and optical facets of desert, sea, and sky.