Arte Povera by Giovanni Lista

Arte Povera by Giovanni Lista

Regular price
Checking stock...
Regular price
Checking stock...
Résumé

Italian for Poor Art, the term Arte Povera was introduced by the Italian art critic and curator Germano Celant in 1967 as a label for a small group of artists who were experimenting with non- traditional and politically charged art.

The feel-good place to buy books
  • Free delivery in the UK
  • Supporting authors with AuthorSHARE
  • 100% recyclable packaging
  • B Corp - kinder to people and planet
  • Buy-back with World of Books - Sell Your Books

Arte Povera by Giovanni Lista

Born in the midst of the delicate political situation in the Italy of the late 1960s, Arte Povera reflected the anti-establishment mood of that period with its rejection of consumer society based on profit. Its artists - Pistoletto, Fabro, Penone, Merz, Boetti, Paolini, Anselmo, Kounellis, Zorio - succeed nonetheless in founding their work on a plastic conception whereby the work existed on its own, outside of theoretic or revolutionary notions. Trusting in a creative gesture involving a concrete act coupled with intellectual speculation, Arte Povera imposes on the artist a strategy poised between the object's material and its conceptual signs. The highly physical character of the work is ultimately expressed in an awareness of the relationship with the viewer. The work arises from primary materials assembled in simple, direct fashion, showing the flow of energy, the transition of forces present in the object. Thus, while joining up with the evolution of contemporary art (from Ready Made to Conceptual Art), Arte Povera claimed a conception of the art work as tangible experience that allowed it to overcome the aesthetic and political context of the years of its birth. Having achieved international recognition, it appears today as the last great 20th-century avant-garde movement.
SKU Non disponible
ISBN 13 9788874392155
ISBN 10 887439215X
Titre Arte Povera
Auteur Giovanni Lista
Série Gallery Of The Arts
État Non disponible
Type de reliure Paperback
Éditeur Five Continents Editions
Année de publication 2019-01-01
Nombre de pages 114
Note de couverture La photo du livre est présentée à titre d'illustration uniquement. La reliure, la couverture ou l'édition réelle peuvent varier.
Note Non disponible