1st Edition
Sculptural Materiality in the Age of Conceptualism International Experiments in Italy
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
Biography
Marin R. Sullivan is Assistant Professor of Art History, Department of Art, Keene State College, USA.
"While the book addresses one Italian artist, Pistoletto, it underscores the radical artistic subculture in Italy during this period. Moreover, it demonstrates that the tension between materiality and immateriality that ran through arte povera yielded a welcome environment for international artists wishing to undertake such projects as well as a support system for their patronage, realization, documentation and photography."
-Rosalind McKever, Art History
