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Piero Manzoni : when bodies became art /

Few artists have combined conceptual ingenuity with devastating critique as deftly and wittily as Piero Manzoni (1933{u2013}1963). This comprehensive survey accompanies a major retrospective at the Städel in Frankfurt (the first major Manzoni retrospective outside Italy in more than two decades), an...

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Main Authors: Manzoni, Piero, 1933-1963
Corporate Authors: Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut Frankfurt am Main
Group Author: Engler, Martin; Bohan, Ann Marie
Published: Kerber Verlag,
Publisher Address: Bielefeld, Germany :
Publication Dates: [2013]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
German
Series: Kerber art
Subjects:
Manzoni, Piero, > 1933-1963 > Exhibitions
Human figure in art > Exhibitions
Summary: Few artists have combined conceptual ingenuity with devastating critique as deftly and wittily as Piero Manzoni (1933{u2013}1963). This comprehensive survey accompanies a major retrospective at the Städel in Frankfurt (the first major Manzoni retrospective outside Italy in more than two decades), and is published on the occasion of what would have been his eightieth birthday. It reproduces more than 100 works from all phases of the artist's brief but massively influential career, from his early Klein-influenced monochromes (or "Achromes") and the Art Informel years to his role as a leading
Item Description: Translation of: Piero Manzoni : Als Körper Kunst wurden.
"Published in conjunction with the exhibition ... Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, June 26, 2013-September 22, 2013, in collaboration with Fondazione Piero Manzoni, Milan"--Colophon.
Carrier Form: 262 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 25 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (pages 248-252).
ISBN: 9783866788749
3866788746
9783866788282
3866788282
9783941399297
3941399292
9783941399334
3941399330
Index Number: N6923
CLC: J154.609.9
J539(546)-28
Call Number: J539(546)-28/M296
Contents: Foreword /
The body, its image, its actions and objects: Piero Manzoni and the biology of art /
Interview: All over Manzoni /
Piero Manzoni: Artisan of the seventh day /
Manzoni in film: the immaterial body of the idea /
Boîte ouverte: Manzoni and the present /

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