Germano Celant (Genoa, 1937) is an Italian writer and curator who coined the term "Arte Povera" (poor art) in 1967 and wrote many articles and books on the subject. Genoa ( Genova, ˈdʒɛːnova in Italian; Zena in Genoese and Ligurian; Genua in Latin and archaically in English Year 1937 ( MCMXXXVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Italy (Italia officially the Italian Republic, (Repubblica Italiana is located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe, and on the two largest Curator (from Latin cura care means manager overseer. A curator or keeper of a cultural heritage institution (e The term Arte Povera (Italian for "Poor Art" was introduced by the Italian Art critic and Curator, Germano Celant, in 1967
The concept of Arte Povera seemed to be that in Italy art was quite different from the America due to the different circumstances at the time. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the Italy was going through an industrial period but was not really making the pop art that coincided with the established economy as opposed to American artists like Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, and other pop artists. The Industrial Revolution was a period in the late 18th and early 19th centuries when major changes in agriculture manufacturing and transportation had a profound effect on the Pop Art is a visual Art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in parallel in the late 1950s in the United States. For the song by David Bowie, see Andy Warhol (song. Andrew Warhola (August 6 1928 &ndash February 22 1987 known as Andy Warhol The Italian artists were going for a neo-humanism in their art and not for the coolness and calculated machine made imagery of the pop artists. Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar (May 21 1921 &ndash October 21 1990 also known by his spiritual name Shrii Shrii Anandamurti, was an Indian philosopher author social Celant's manifesto of Arte Povera, Notes for a Guerilla, was originally published in Flash Art in 1967. Flash Art is a bimonthly magazine focusing on Contemporary art. The "Arte Povera" artists included Michelangelo Pistoletto, Alighiero Boetti, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Merz, Marisa Merz, Giuseppe Penone, Giulio Paolini, Giovanni Anselmo and many others. Michelangelo Pistoletto (born 23 June 1933 in Biella) is an Italian painter action and object artist and art theorist. Alighiero Boetti (a/k/a Alighiero e Boetti (1940 Turin – 1994 Rome is an Italian conceptual artist considered to be a member of the art movement Arte Povera. Jannis Kounellis was born in 1936 in Piraeus, Greece.He studied at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome. Mario Merz ( Jan 1, 1925 in Milan - 9 November 2003 in Turin) was an Italian Artist. Giuseppe Penone (born April 3 1947, Garessio, Italy) is one of the most important Italian Artists.
Germano Celant edited and curated the Catalogue Raisonné of Italian artist Piero Manzoni in 1974. Piero Manzoni ( July 13 1933 - February 6, 1963) was an Italian artist best known for his ironic Conceptual art in direct In 1997 he was the director of the Venice Biennale and is currently Senior Curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. The Venice Biennale (Biennale di Venezia also called in English the "Venice Biennial " is a major Contemporary art exhibition that takes place once This article refers to the Guggenheim's landmark New York museum New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous