Sculptural Materiality in the Age of Conceptualism: International Experiments in Italy

ISBN-13: 9781032179315 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 212 str.

Marin R. Sullivan

Opis

Sculptural Materiality in the Age of Conceptualism is structured around four distinct but interrelated projects initially realized in Italy between 1966 and 1972: Yayoi Kusama’s Narcissus Garden, Michelangelo Pistoletto’s Newspaper Sphere (Sfera di giornali), Robert Smithson’s Asphalt Rundown, and Joseph Beuys’s Arena. Here, they anchor a

Spis treści

Introduction: Meshworks and Networks

Sculptural Materiality

Action and Circulation in Postwar Italy

1. Reflective Acts: Yayoi Kusama in Venice

"Sideshow" Sculpture and the XXXIII Venice Biennale

Photographic Mirrors

Self, Sculpture, and Photograph

Remnants and Residuum

2. With Time Action: Michelangelo Pistoletto in Turin

Mirror Images and Minus Objects

Con temp l’azione

The City as Material

From the Street to the Cage

3. Slow Dissolves: Robert Smithson in Rome

Exhibiting Process

The Flow of Sculpture

Photography is Action

The Age of Conceptualism

4. The Sculptural Arena: Joseph Beuys in Naples

The Mediterranean Situation

Transmitters

Between Image and Object

Sculpture as Multiple

Conclusion: Material Dispersions

Recreations and Replicas

Inert Monuments and Enlivened Objects

O autorze

Marin R. Sullivan is Assistant Professor of Art History, Department of Art, Keene State College, USA.