Arte Povera
Arte Povera
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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.
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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 |