Flash Art: Two Decades of History : Xxi Years (Flash Art Book) (English and Italian Edition) - Hardcover

Politi, Giancarlo

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9780262161190: Flash Art: Two Decades of History : Xxi Years (Flash Art Book) (English and Italian Edition)

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ISBN 10: 0262161192 ISBN 13: 9780262161190

Publisher: Mit Pr, 1990

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This anthology presents over two decades of the most memorable issues and events of contemporary art as seen through the pages of Flash Art, the controversial, contradictory art magazine that has influenced both cultural taste and artistic development for twenty-one years.

From Arte Povera, Process Art, Conceptual Art, Performance Art, and Post-Conceptualism to Pictures, the Transavantgarde, the East Village, and NeoConceptualism, Flash Art has functioned as both forum and catalyst for current art trends.

The book includes such artists and theorists as Bernd and Hilla Becher, Rebecca Horn, Joseph Kosuth, John Baldessari, Gordon Matta-Clark, Sherrie Levine, Gilles Deleuze, Edward Ruscha, Mimmo Paladino, Jean-Fran�ois Lyotard, Frank Stella, Julia Kristeva, Jean Baudrillard, Fredric Jameson, Jeff Koons, Donald Judd, Peter Halley, David Salle, Gerhard Richter, and Germano Celant. It documents the magazine's policy and trajectory throughout the course of contemporary culture a policy that has been consistently concerned with capturing the new and the radical, transforming them inevitably, into the event.

Giancarlo Politi is the founder, publisher, and editor of Flash Art. Helena Kontova has been coeditor since 1977. A Flash Art Book. Distributed by The MIT Press.

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Text: English, Italian

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For 21 years Flash Art has been one of the more important, and among the most controversial, art magazines. It has attempted to capture the new and radical, including the sometimes ineffable genres of Art Povera, Process Art, Conceptual Art, Post-Conceptual Art, Neo-Conceptual Art, and the Trans-avant-garde. Traditional views of art are deliberately shattered by works like Vito Acconci's "Runoff," done in "Body, sweat, and blu tempura," or his performance piece consisting of rubbing cockroaches onto his stomach. The viewpoint is primarily European, with forays into other cultures. This anthology of the magazine's best pieces suffers from a cluttered layout and very small print. For comprehensive collections.
- Daniel J. Lombardo, Jones Lib., Inc., Amherst, Mass.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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