📗 Libro en inglés ARTE POVERA

Arte Povera
The definitive overview of this highly influential and innovative art movement, now available in paperbackEdited by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev

The definitive overview and anthology of the artworks and writings associated with this influential art movement
Arte Povera explores the relation between art and life, made manifest through natural materials and human artefacts, and experienced through the body
Includes internationally renowned artists - Anselmo, Boetti, Calzolari, Fabro, Kounellis, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Paolini, Pascali, Penone, Pistoletto, Prini and Zorio - who are exhibited in major museums worldwide
Extended captions and documents include numerous artists' statements translated into English for the first time

It was in 1967 that critic Germano Celant defined as Arte Povera (poor art) the work of thirteen young Italian artists. Through sculpture and installation they explored the relation between art and life as it is made manifest through nature, elemental matter or cultural artefacts, and experienced through the body. Their innovative works are lyrical, open-ended combinations of unlikely fragments: a slab of marble with a lettuce, or fruit scattered amongst neon tubes, giving the most banal materials a metaphysical dimension.

First exhibiting together in Italy in the late 1960s, artists Anselmo, Boetti, Calzolari, Fabro, Kounellis, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Paolini, Pascali, Penone, Pistoletto, Prini and 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 is still strongly resonant. Rome-based critic and curator Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev has written extensively on these artists. Her acute aestheticism brings the book to life: it embodies the essential in-depth survey of this groundbreaking movement, in a compilation that is as beautifully presented as it is intellectually rigorous.

Survey Christov-Bakargiev's introductory essay covers all the key dates, players and issues of Arte Povera.

Works provides an extensive colour plate section with extended captions for every artwork. Starting with 'Group Exhibitions', a chapter is th