Vivir en Arte, Recuerdos de lo que me Acuerdo
Cruz-Diez, Carlos
Paris: Cruz-Diez Foundation, 2014, 358 p.
ISBN: 978-6078310018
Carlos Cruz-Diez surprises us with a fascinating memoir; a testament to a full life that takes us from Caracas in the 1930s to Paris in the 1960s. A captivating book that reveals multiple facets of one of the key figures of the kinetic movement.
The book is a testament to a life led by the same motto: "Art and life cannot be separated because they are one and the same."
In the sixties, there was a very intense intellectual and artistic climate, which is not the same as today. It was a time of happy coincidences where artists and intellectuals from Latin America and Europe would meet in bistros, restaurants, and cafés. If you went to La Coupole, it was very likely to run into Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, surrounded by their friends. At Le Dôme, you could find Ionesco, Giacometti, and many others.
Cruz-Diez - Vivir en Arte: Recuerdos de lo que me acuerdo, 1995
