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AA.VV.
Istituto dell'Enciclopedia italiana fondata da G. Treccani

L. Camusso, S. Bortone
Arnoldo Mondadori Editore

Flaminio Gualdoni
Charta

Cesare Benaglia
Silvia Editrice

AA.VV.
Istituto dell'Enciclopedia italiana fondata da G. Treccani

Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev
Phaidon Press Limited

In 1967 the critic Germano Celant defined as Arte Povera ("poor art") theork of 13 world renowned young Italian artists. This work documents andxplains the sculpture and installation work of these artists in the contextf the critics who shaped it and the broader cultural framework ofontemporaneous philosophers, film-makers and curators.;The innovative worksf the artists were lyrical, open-ended combinations of unlikely fragments -ive horses wandering through a gallery, a slab of marble with a lettuce -iving the most banal materials a metaphysical dimension.;The artists includenselmo, Boetti, Calzolari, Fabro, Kounellis, Mario and Marisa Merz, Paolini,ascali, Penone, Pistolleto, Prini and Zorio, many of whom have emerged asorld class artists who continue to exhibit internationally. Their work andtatements are published alongside contemporaneous texts by critics and otherhinkers of their day.

Mary Ann Caws
Phaidon Press Limited

Surrealism is a survey of the twentieth century's longest lasting and, arguably, most influential art movement. Championed and held together by André Breton for over forty years, Surrealism was France's major avant-garde artistic tendency from 1924 onwards, rapidly spreading around the globe to become an international phenomenon. During World War II, Surrealism's exiled artists and writers had a major impact on American art and were a primary influence for the Abstract Expressionist generation. The official Surrealist movement continued to the end of Breton's life in 1966, and its legacy is still pervasive today, in contemporary art as well as in numerous quotations from surrealist imagery in cinema, advertising and the media.



Survey Mary Ann Caws - a distinguished scholar, translator and associate of the surrealists - describes in clear, perceptive and lively prose the essential characteristics that define Surrealism, as well as tracing a concise path through the chronology of this prolific and wide-ranging movement. The text also demonstrates how Surrealist art and writing are interdependent.



Works provides an extensive colour plate section with extended captions for every artwork. Following the movement from its beginnings in the 1920s up to the 40s and950s, its six sections trace the themes that predominated at different stages.



Artists include Eileen Agar, Jean Arp, Antonin Artaud, Hans Bellmer, Jacques-André Boiffard, Brassaï, Victor Brauner, André Breton, Jacques Brunius, Luis Bunel, Claude Cahun, Leonora Carrington, Giorgio de Chirico, Joseph Cornell, Salvdor Dalí, Paul Delvaux, Oscar Domínguez, Marcel Duchamp, Nusch Eluard, Max Ernst, Léonor Fini, Esteban Francés, Wilhelm Freddie, Alberto Giacometti, Arshile Gorky, Jindrich Heisler, Geores Hugnet, Valentine Hugo, Marcel Jean, Frida Kahlo, André Kertész, Frederick Kiesler, Greta Knutson-Tzara, Wifredo Lam, Jacqueline Lamba , Len Lye, Dora Maar, F.E. McWilliam, René Magritte, Man Ray, André Masson, Roberto Matta, Henri Michaux, Lee Miller, Joan Miró, Pierre Molinier, Henry Moore, Max Morise, Paul Nougé, Gordon Onslow Ford, Meret Oppenheim, Wolfgang Paalen, Roger Parry, Roland Penrose, Pablo Picasso, Kay Sage, Kurt Seligmann, Jindrich Styrsky, Maurice Tabard, Yves Tanguy, Dorothea Tanning, Toyen, Tristan Tzara, Raoul Ubac, Remedios Varo, Wols



Documents section includes important rediscovered writings alongside the key texts by leading figures. Many of the texts have been specially translated for this volume by Mary Ann Caws and Jonathan Eburne.

David Campany
Phaidon Press Limited

Scrittore e artista, co-fondatore dell'organizzazione Photoforum, che riunisce studiosi e fotografi, David Campany conduce in questo volume un'indagine sulla presenza della fotografia nella pratica artistica contemporanea, dagli anni Sessanta in avanti. L'immagine fotografica, infatti, ha acquisito sempre più peso nell'arte del Novecento, e così anche il dibattito teorico sul suo ruolo.

James Meyer
Phaidon Press Limited

Il termine Minimalismo fu coniato per descrivere i lavori di un gruppo di artisti americani che, nel corso degli anni '60, elaborarono un nuovo tipo di astrazione geometrica integrale o seriale. Questo volume documenta i percorsi dei protagonisti del Minimalismo - Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt e Robert Morris - oltre alle esperienze degli artisti in qualche modo riconducibili al movimento, come gli scultori Larry Bell, Eva Hesse, John McCracken, Robert Smithson e Anne Truitt, e i pittori Jo Baer, Robert Mangold, Brice Marden, Agens Martin, David Novros, Robert Ryman e Frank Stella.

Peter Osborne
Phaidon Press Limited

This book marks a new, original and authoritative re-examination of a major turning point in late twentieth-century art. Since the mid 1960s Conceptual art - an art that consists of ideas, written down, enacted or simply carried in your head - has directly challenged the very notion that a work of art is by definition an object of visual pleasure. Conceptual art is first and foremost an art of questions. As this book demonstrates, Conceptual art continues today to raise fundamental questions not only about the definition of art itself but about politics, the media and society. Conceptual art, since its zenith from 1966 to 1972, has influenced not only all subsequent art but made a major contribution to the history of ideas. It, in turn, drew much of its inspiration from the writings of thinkers ranging from the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein to the playwright Samuel Beckett. For the first time, excerpts from these key influential writings are included alongside the major original texts by artists, critics, curators and art historians. An international movement, Conceptual art encompasses not only North America and Western Europe but also South America, Eastern Europe, Russia, China and Japan. Its legacy is global, ranging from small local participatory projects to large-scale installations at major museums and biennales.

Alfonso Ciranna
Alfonso Ciranna editore

Jérôme Neutres
Damiani Editore

Specchio del "villaggio globalizzato" e terra di profonde disparità economiche; fucina di nuove tecnologie e paese profondamente arretrato. Questa è l'India delle contraddizioni che negli ultimi anni, fra il clamore di Bollywood e le note della Bhangra music, si è fatta conoscere per il suo risveglio: la nuova letteratura, la nuova moda, la nuova economia e ora arriva anche la nuova arte di cui questo libro, raccoglie le opere e gli esponenti più significativi. Così, il volume passa in rassegna i lavori di Ravinder Reddy, artista che rilegge la tradizione statuaria hindu per raccontare la donna nell'India contemporanea, e quelli di N Pushpamala, ritratti dedicati alle dive di Bollywood e alle donne religiose indiane. La religione è in primo piano anche nelle installazioni di Anita Dube, che rivisitano la tradizione iconografica hindu attraverso il tema dell'offerta, mentre Shilpa Gupta appartiene alla generazione di artisti attivi sulle piattaforme multimediali. Fra gli artisti noti nel panorama internazionale, Subodh Gupta racconta gli oggetti del quotidiano nelle ingombranti sculture metalliche di biciclette, scooter e auto. Forte della sempre più crescente popolarità fra pubblico e critica, l'arte contemporanea indiana è documentata attraverso il lavoro di 14 artisti (Ravinder Reddy, Subodh Gupta, Bharti Kher, N Pushpamala, A. Balasubramaniam, Anita Dube, Krishnaraj Chonat, Shilpa Gupta, Sonia Khurana, harat Sikka, Thukral&Tagra, Tejal Shah, Kriti Arora, Baba Anand).