Title & Author:

The Italian avant-garde, 1968-1976 / [volume editors: Alex Coles and Catharine Rossi].

Publication:

Berlin : Sternberg Press, 2013.

Description:

222 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm

Series:

EP ; volume 1

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Role of radical magazines / Joseph Grima & Allessandro Mendini & Vera Sacchetti -- MoMA's "Italy: the new domestic landscape" revisited / Paola Antonelli -- Between the nomadic and the impossible : radical architecture and the Cavart group / Catharine Rossi -- Ettore Sottsass : the design ethnologist / Alison J. Clarke -- T68/B68 / Paola Nicolin -- Space Electronic / Carlo Caldini -- Complexity of a legacy / Studio Formafantasma & Libby Sellers -- Socialism as a graphic language : Ettore Vitale / Experimental Jetset -- Selected work / Ettore Vitale -- More money, less work : Archizoom / Pier Vittorio Aureli -- Arte in poverata / Martino Gamper & Michel-Angelo Pistoletto -- Radical notes / Andrea Branzi -- Real radical? / Antonio Negri & Verina Gfader.

Summary:

This volume emphasizes the multiple correspondences between well-known radical design groups like Arte Povera, Archizoom, and Superstudio, and figures such as Ettore Sottsass and Alessandro Mendini, and previously overlooked spaces, works, and performances generated by Zoo, Gruppo 9999, and Cavart. Newly commissioned interviews and essays by historians, curators and critics shed new light on the era under scrutiny, while contemporary practitioners, discuss its complex legacy.

ISBN:

9783943365498 (paperback)
3943365492 (paperback)

Subject:

Art, Italian 20th century.
Avant-garde (Aesthetics) Italy.
Art and design Italy.
Design Italy.
Art italien 20e siècle.
Art et design Italie.
Design Italie.
Art and design
Art, Italian
Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Design
Italy

Form/genre:

Interviews.

Added entries:

Coles, Alex, editor.
Rossi, Catharine, editor.
EP (Sternberg Press) ; v. 1.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 283570
Call No.: BIB 221896
Status: Available