The Italian avant-garde, 1968-1976
By: [volume editors: Alex Coles and Catharine Rossi]
Series: EP -- v. 1
Publisher: Sternberg Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Berlin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 222
ISBN-13: 9783943365498
Subjects: Italian Art; Avant-garde (Aesthetics); Art and design; Design
Description: 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.