Piero Manzoni: An Artist's Life

Gualdoni, Flaminio

ISBN 10: 0847849139 / ISBN 13: 9780847849130

Published by Gagosian / Rizzoli, 2019

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Synopsis:

Immediately upon his death in 1963 at the age of thirty, Piero Manzoni s reputation as a provocateur and wild child preceded him, with his most subversive work, Artist s Shit, 1961, elevating him to cult status. But what actually came before, and lay behind those thirty grams of pure artistic output? Flaminio Gualdoni sets out to explore exactly that in this biography that traces the guiding themes of Manzoni s works, lending order to a jumble of hitherto fragmented materials and setting aside any apocryphal hypotheses.

About the Author: Flaminio Gualdoni is professor of the history of ancient art at the Accademia di Brera, Milan, and is the former director of the Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan. He is a contributing editor of the Art Newspaper and has w ritten many books on art history. Curator and art historian Peter Benson Miller is the Andrew Heiskell Arts Director of the American Academy in Rome. A translator with more than thirty years of experience, Marguerite Shore specializes in the translation of texts on Italian art and culture.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Piero Manzoni: An Artist's Life
Publisher: Gagosian / Rizzoli
Publication Date: 2019
Binding: paperback
Condition: Fine