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This book is the final, most comprehensive book ever made by Greek-born Jannis Kounellis, one of the key artists in the Arte Povera movement. Following his breakthrough in the late 1960s in Rome, when he questioned the traditionally sterile environment of the gallery by exhibiting live animals withi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Larratt-Smith, Philip (Author), Fuchs, Rudi, 1942- (Author)
Other Authors: Kounellis, Jannis, 1936-2017
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Phaidon Press, [2018]
Series:Contemporary artists.
Subjects:
Kounellis, Jannis, > 1936-2017.
Conceptual art.
ART / General.
Table of Contents:
  • Interview. Tribute
  • Survey. The loss of smell / Philip Larratt-Smith
  • Focus. Untitled (senza titulo) / Rudi Fuchs
  • Studio visit
  • Artist's writings : On the body, behaviour, on the 'natural' and the 'living' and the authenticity of the theatre, 1968 ; La città di Riga, 1976 ; Conversation with Jean-Christophe Ammann, Joseph Beuys, Anselm Kiefer and Enzo Cucchi (extract), 1986 ; Untitled: a project for Artforum, 1988 ; La selvaggina, 1994 ; For Adel Abdessemed, 1999 ; Dodecafonia, 2016
  • Chronology.