1st Edition
Alik Cavaliere's Anti-Authoritarian Aesthetics A Postwar Italian Practice and Its Contemporary Resonances
Introduction: Sculpture’s Crisis and the Transformation of Three-Dimensional Form Part I: Formation and Foundations (1926–1960) 1. The Making of an Artist: Biography, Training, and Early Works 2. The Journals as Laboratory: Cavaliere’s Artistic Philosophy Part II: The Breakthrough Works (1962–1972) 3. Nature Fossilized: The Arboreal-Floral Works and the Uncanny Nature of the Sculptural Object 4. ‘Gustavo B.’s Adventures’: From Sculpture to Performance Part III: The Environmental Sculptures (1972–1989) 5. Anti-Authoritarian Environments: Cavaliere’s Teatrini in Italy’s Years of Lead 6. Surroundings I–VII: Art, Daily Life, and Participation 7. Metamorphic Identities: Pygmalion and Narcissus Part IV: Situating Cavaliere (1960–Present) 8. Cavaliere’s Place in Postwar European Art: Cognitive Dissonance as a Tool for Resistance 9. Cavaliere’s Legacy in Contemporary Sculpture and Installation Practice: Dialogic Process in Participatory Art Conclusion: Sculpture as an Ethical Practice
Biography
Marta Colombo is an Art Historian and Lecturer in Art History. Her research focuses on modern and contemporary art, with particular interest in the relationship between aesthetics, the politics of appearance, and the ethics of representation.
