Beyond environment
By: [editors and concept] Emanuele Piccardo, Amit Wolf
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Actar Publishers
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9781940291338
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Artists and architects; Criticism and interpretation; Architecture in art; Performance art; Earthworks (Art)
Description: "During his first excursions to the United States, the Italian architect Gianni Pettena produced a series of 'environments' in an idealized collaboration with artists Allan Kaprow and Robert Smithson that staged a veritable implosion of fields; counter-events and Happenings, radical design and Land Art, as well as new technological landscapes and the pastoral Midwest."--Back cover.
Notes: "Featuring works by: Gianni Pettena, Robert Smithson, Allan Kaprow, Gordon Matta-Clark, UFO, Ugo La Pietra, 9999, Pietro Derossi, Superstudio"--Cover.
Table of contents: title: Off-site / Ingalill Wahlroos-Ritter; title: Introduction / Bruno Orlandoni; title: From the city to the environment / Emanuele Piccardo; title: The education of an un-architect / Amit Wolf; title: Dialogues : Gianni Pettena and Robert Smithson; title: Dialogues : Gianni Pettena and Allan Kaprow; title: Dialogues : Gianni Pettena and Gordon Matta-Clark; title: Dialogues : Emanuele Piccardo and Gianni Pettena; title: Dialogues : Emanuele Piccardo and Fabio Sargentini; title: Superarchitettura Italy 1963-1973 : Gianni Pettena, UFO, Ugo La Pietra, 9999, Pietro Derossi, Superstudio.