Marisa Merz
Subtitle: the sky is a great space
By: edited by Connie Butler ; contributions by Ian Alteveer, Connie Butler, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Leslie Cozzi, Teresa Kittler, Cloé Perrone, Lucia Re, Tommaso Trini ; writings by Marisa Merz
Contributors: Hammer Museum; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Publisher: Prestel
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9783791355672
Subjects: Arte povera; Exhibitions
Other titles: Sky is a great space
Description: "Bringing together five decades of painting, sculpture, and installations from the celebrated Italian artist Marisa Merz, this monograph accompanies a major US retrospective of her work"--
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, January 24-May 7, 2017; and the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, June 4-August 20, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Marisa Merz :; title: alien culture  -- Connie Butler; title: The mark on the wall :; title: Marisa Merz and a history of women in postwar Italy  -- Lucia Re -- Plates; title: Writings by Marisa Merz --; title: Outgrowing the Kitchen :; title: Marisa Merz's Living sculpture  -- Teresa Kittler; title: Marisa Merz among the Pre-Raphaelites  -- Leslie Cozzi; title: 'Reality to the imagination' :; title: chance encounters and timelessness in the work of Marisa Merz since 1985  -- Ian Alteveer; title: You can make shoes out of brains  -- Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev; title: Marisa Merz  -- Tommaso Trini; title: Indatabile :; title: an annotated chronology of the life and work of Marisa Merz -- Cloé Perrone and Leslie Cozzi.