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Thierry W. Despont
Assouline Publishing

Combining geometrical purity and gestural grandeur, Thierry W. Despont conjugates his architectural skills and painter's virtuosity in this spectacular collection of majestic, daunting, and singularly attracting orbs, turning his struggle with corrosive materials and richly textured pigments into a spiritual achievement. A compound of restless collage and swirling pigments, each orb is animated by a life of its own: colorful magma breaking through the scorched surface of the canvas, white streaks flickering against the encroaching and abysmal darkness of a stark black background that seems about to engulf it. At the same time dynamic and mesmerizing, they are mysterious and numinous, intimate and remote; a lesson in the "abstract sublime," they conjure up the immemorial awe of man in front of a cosmic world he both reveres and dreads. Beyond the eruptive, cataclysmic forces animating them, the orbs are inwardly radiant, animated by a life that seems to emerge from their depths, and conjure up a paradoxical harmony that embues them with an ultimate metaphysical dimension.

Sergio Casoli, Elena Geuna
Skira Editore

Domenico Cantatore
Edi. Artes

Jouffroy Crispolti
Edizioni l'uomo e l'arte

Eristeo Banali
Publi Paolini

Achille Bonito Oliva
Boxart

Flaminio Gualdoni
Charta

Cesare Benaglia
Silvia Editrice

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.

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.

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.