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It was in 1967 that Italian art critic Germano Celant coined the term Arte Povera to describe the work of a generation of young Italian artists. Emerging alongside such international movements as Land Art, Minimalism and Conceptual Art, Arte Povera used a simple 'poverty' of gestures and materials - twigs, metals, glass, fabric, stone, even live animals - to turn away from traditional 'high' art. The Arte Povera artists explored the relation between art and life as it is made manifest in natural processes or cultural dynamics. First exhibiting together in Italy in the late 1960s, Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero Boetti, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Luciano Fabro, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Giulio Paolini, Pino Pascali, Giuseppe Penone, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Emilio Prini and Gilberto Zorio went on to become internationally renowned. Bridging the natural and the artificial, the urban and the rural, Mediterranean life and Western modernity, Arte Povera's impact still resounds. Critic and curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev is one of the world's leading authorities on post-war Italian art and culture. She collaborated directly with many of the artists in the making of this book, which is the most comprehensive survey available.
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Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev is a writer and curator, internationally recognized as a scholar of late 20th-century Italian art. She has written extensively on the Arte Povera movement and published interviews and texts on artists such as Boettti, Pistoletto, Merz, Fabro and Kounellis. Her exhibitions include a large-scale retrospective in 1996 of post-war Italian artists Alberto Burri in Rome, Brussels and Munich; and in 1997, 'Citta-Natura', a city-wide exhibition of international artists including Anselmo, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Pascali and Kounellis, held in Rome. She is Chief Curator at the Castello di Rivoli, Turin, and was formerly Senior Curator at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York. She was co-curator, with Iwona Blazwick, of 'Faces in the Crowd: Picturing Modern Life from Manet to Today', Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, and Castello di Rivoli, Turin, 2004-5. Author's Residence: Turin and Rome, Italy
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
This is a well constructed guide to Arte Povera;the Italian art movement of the sixties and seventies. It is a movement which has had a huge effect on art of the last few decades of the twentieth century, yet it's importance is often overlooked or underestiamted. The illustrations are compelling,particularly in view of the ephemeral nature of the work, much of which no longer exists. The extensive publications of statements by the artist's, as well as writings by critics of the period, fleshes out the superb imagery. This book is an important academic tome, but works equally well as a sumptuous coffee table book.If there is a better book on the subject currently on the market I haven't found it.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Rich in other ways
31 Mar 2010
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Christov-Bakargiev's book presents a great survey of one of the lesser known but most influential modern art movements in post-war europe. An in-depth collection of documentation and writing that offers both analysis and contextualisation. Explanations of the artworks are presented alongside the photographs which makes it easy to make sense of the happenings, installations, performances and other temporary events that were central practices of many of the Arte Povera group. The inclusion of contemporary texts and excerpts from artist's statements offer the reader the closest thing to a first hand experience.
The design of the book is perfect for dipping into as well as reading from beginning to end.
The design of the book is perfect for dipping into as well as reading from beginning to end.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
ESSENTIAL !
25 Oct 2006
Format:Paperback
The most appealing book on the subject I ever read. Very fine reproductions, excellent comments, splendid background information. A must for everyone who's interested in modern art history!
7 of 19 people found the following review helpful
informative of the poor art movement
14 Aug 2000
Format:Hardcover
In my opinion Arte Povera was the most interesting art movement in the 20th century. This book includes many art movements, explanations, artists involved, plenty of pictures and it is held together in a great quality book. I recomend this book to anyone right or left brained.
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