Il sarcofago degli sposi / Jannis Kounellis ; Herausgeber, Peter Noever ; [Katalog, Peter Noever, Bettina M. Busse ; Redaktion, Bettina M. Busse].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kounellis, Jannis, 1936-2017.

Contributor:

Noever, Peter, 1941-

Busse, Bettina M.

Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst.

Language:

English

German

Italian

Subjects (All):

Kounellis, Jannis, 1936-2017--Exhibitions.

Kounellis, Jannis.

Kounellis, Jannis, 1936-2017.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

159 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm

Other Title:

Jannis Kounellis, il sarcofago degli sposi

Place of Publication:

Ostfildern : H. Cantz ; New York : Distribution in the US [by] D.A.P., Distributed Art Publishers, [1999]

Language Note:

German, English, and Italian.

Summary:

Jannis Kounellis was one of the cofounders of Arte Povera in Italy in the 1960s. His work combines apparently contradictory substances, forms, and principles to explore themes involving the basic principles of life: heat and distance, transience and endurance, creation and decay. There is no hierarchy among materials in his art: coffee, coal, oil lamps, steel plates, gas flames, shoes, and fabric all play equally important roles in his installations. This monograph covers every period of Kounellis' career -- from early pictures with numbers and letters, to creations using coal and fire, to his works of the 1990s.

Notes:

Catalog of an exhibition held May 5-Aug. 22, 1999, at the Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst in Vienna.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 158-159).

ISBN:

3775708642

OCLC:

45029231