Author: GODFREY, MARK
Title: Alighiero e Boetti / Mark Godfrey
Description: New Haven [Conn.]; London: Yale University Press 2011. 1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 343 pages: illustrations (mostly colour) and decorated endpapers; 28 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (p. 322-343) and index. Contents; Conceptual art and the 'mystic romantic' -- Hardware shop moments -- The arte povera years -- The artist according to Alighiero e Boetti -- The four fundamental concepts of Boetti's 1970s works -- Journeys and geo-politics -- The kingdom of papers -- Longing for the wind -- Boetti's last works and legacies. Summary; Alighiero e Boetti (1940-1994) has emerged as one of the most significant figures of postwar European art whose practice is having an unfolding impact on younger artists. His powerful influence can be attributed to the material diversity of his work. its conceptual ingenuity. and his political sensibility. His work. though usually associated with the Italian Arte Povera group and Conceptual Art. has never quite fit into these contexts. Boetti ceased making Arte Povera-type objects in 1969 after a few years of association with the group. and his later choice of materials (embroidery. calligraphy. mosaic. kilims) put a gulf between his work and that of most artists of the 1970s and 1980s. Boetti had an idiosyncratic style of working. and he often collaborated with or commissioned others to execute his ideas. including his celebrated maps of the world. colorfully embroidered by women in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He tended to create several divergent bodies of work at once in series that he continued throughout his life. Alighiero e Boetti is the first monograph covering the whole career of this crucial artist to be published in English. Rather than present a linear account of the artist's creative practice. the book contains linked chapters that expound on the key subjects of Boetti's art and position this work in relation to that of his European and American contemporaries. Subjects; Boetti. Alighiero 1940-1994 - Criticism and interpretation. Conceptual art - Italy. Boetti. Alighiero. 1940-1994. Conceptual art; Individual artists. Italy. ART / History / Contemporary (1945-). ART / Individual Artists / Monographs. Weight in Kg appr.:

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