Product Description: The term "Arte Povera" was introduced by the influential critic and curator Germano Celant in 1967, to describe a new art that expressed the economic and cultural turbulence of the late 1960s in Italy. This art became identified with the use of "poor" materials such as soil, glass, wood and wax, but in fact its products ranged from paintings and sculptures to photographs and performances...read more

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Product Description: With its exposed spine stitching and variety of paper stocks, this survey of Olafur Eliasson's very rarely seen artist's books elevates his work in bookmaking to the status of his better-known projects, such as his New York waterfalls, and is indeed an artist's book in itself...read more

Product Description: Ils Sont Peintres (They are Painters) considers paintings that have avoided the figurative, narrative, Neo-Expressionist trends that have defined the medium in recent years. Artists include John Armleder, Robert Barry, Daniel Buren, Stephane Dafflon, Loris Greaud, Wade Guyton, Bertrand Lavier, Steven Parrino, Manfred Pernice, Florian Pumhosl and Niele Toroni...read more

Product Description: Paris-based architect and theorist Yona Friedman's 2008-09 Musee dans la rue project places provocative mini-museums--agglomer-ations of Plexiglass cubes and parallelepipeds placed on top of one another--on the streets of major European cities, where they may be adapted by anyone who wishes to make their mark...read more

Product Description: In 1968, the Italian artist Alighiero Boetti renamed himself Alighiero e ("and") Boetti, effectively expressing the duality of his personality and his work--and, by extension, the dichotomies of society and culture and art and life...read more

Product Description: Since 1967 the American conceptualist Robert Barry has taken his work to the limits of immateriality and invisibility, creating installations with wire and nylon thread, performing actions with inert gasses and radioactive materials and going on to work with acoustic frequencies, sounds and language...read more

Product Description: Liam Gillick's designs for conference rooms, corridors and offices solidify the artist's sustained interest in negotiating the middle-ground between corporate culture and contemporary art. This illustrated reader contains an essay by Gillick on the dissolution of the public/private dichotomy within the grey zone of semi-public/semi-private spheres...read more

Product Description: Daniel Roth (b. 1969) has recently enjoyed critical acclaim for installations documenting the discovery of fantastic events or phenomena. His observations in the role of detective and archaeologist connect seemingly unrelated details, revealing (and creating) hidden relationships...read more

Product Description: Tony Cragg represented Britain at the 1988 Venice Biennale and took the next year's Turner Prize. He has had major solo shows at the Tate, Corcoran and Centre Georges Pompidou. This monograph on a series of site-specific commissions considers the notions of public collections versus private, and the relationship between artist and patron...read more

Product Description: Catalogue documenting an installation by sound and sculptural artist Mario Airo, at the Modern and Contemporary Art Gallery in Torino, Italy. This volume includes 50 color images along with texts by the artist and complete biography and bibliography. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Book is written in English; translated from the Italian. Includes over 250 illustrations, many in full-color and full-page.