Jannis Kounellis
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
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Few artists have so thoroughly dismantled the boundaries between raw material and refined expression as Jannis Kounellis, the Greek-born, Rome-based pioneer whose work became synonymous with the Arte Povera movement of the late 1960s and beyond. This landmark exhibition catalogue, organised by curator Mary Jane Jacob for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, chronicles the full arc of Kounellis's radical visual language — one built from coal, burlap, fire, steel, and live animals — presenting a body of work that refused the sterile conventions of the gallery wall in favour of visceral, elemental confrontation. Published in collaboration with Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, the volume stands as one of the most authoritative English-language surveys of Kounellis's practice, richly illustrated and accompanied by critical texts that situate his installations within the broader currents of postwar European art. Kounellis's work argues, with almost theatrical insistence, that art must bear the weight of history, memory, and the physical world — a proposition that remains as urgent and unsettling today as when he first nailed a live parrot to a canvas and dared the viewer to look away.
Author: Mary Jane Jacob
Format: Paperback
Genre: The arts
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few artists have so thoroughly dismantled the boundaries between raw material and refined expression as Jannis Kounellis, the Greek-born, Rome-based pioneer whose work became synonymous with the Arte Povera movement of the late 1960s and beyond. This landmark exhibition catalogue, organised by curator Mary Jane Jacob for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, chronicles the full arc of Kounellis's radical visual language — one built from coal, burlap, fire, steel, and live animals — presenting a body of work that refused the sterile conventions of the gallery wall in favour of visceral, elemental confrontation. Published in collaboration with Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, the volume stands as one of the most authoritative English-language surveys of Kounellis's practice, richly illustrated and accompanied by critical texts that situate his installations within the broader currents of postwar European art. Kounellis's work argues, with almost theatrical insistence, that art must bear the weight of history, memory, and the physical world — a proposition that remains as urgent and unsettling today as when he first nailed a live parrot to a canvas and dared the viewer to look away.